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Archive for December, 2007
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Google is no longer including RSS or Atom feeds in its search results.
The move, intended to reduce the amount of duplicate results users see, was confirmed by Bogdan Stănescu on the Google Webmaster Central blog this week.
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
More than one third of adult Internet users in the United States regularly use social networking sites, according to a recent report.
A study by eMarketer also found that 70% of online teens are now using websites like MySpace and Facebook every month; pushing advertising spend on social networking sites towards the $2 billion mark.
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
Google has announced a potential be competitor to Wikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopedia.
Dubbed Google Knol, the service is designed to help people share their knowledge in the form of an expert article on a given subject.
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Ask.com has launched a new tool that allows Internet users to search anonymously.
The AskEraser, which stops the search engine recording data about users’ search queries, will be a welcome development for those concerned about online privacy.
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
On December 1st 2007 John Darwin, a canoeist missing for five years and presumed drowned, walked into a London police station claiming to have no memory of anything since the remains of his red canoe washed up on a Hartlepool beach.
Yesterday a photograph surfaced in a UK national newspaper that appears to reveal him to be a fraud. The picture shows John, 57, and his wife (who, on the understanding her husband was dead, pocketed a large life insurance payout) posing last year with the owner of a real estate agent in Panama.
The photo found its way on to the Move to Panama website of real estate agent Mario Vilar and eventually came to wider attention when someone suspicious over Darwin’s disappearance searched Google for “John, Anne and Panama”.
A remarkable story I thought, and a great piece of publicity for Move to Panama. Being so closely connected to a news event of such magnitude is a link builder’s dream.
So, since the story broke has Mario’s site been deluged with traffic? Probably. Has his number of inbound links exploded? Nope. So what went wrong?
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Google will be releasing a new application for Apple’s iPhone, the Internet giants have announced.
The application will feature a combination of the Internet giants major services, such as search and GMail, in a single interface.
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Microsoft’s Live Search is getting aggressive with duplicate content, reports Web Pro News.
According to WPN’s Brian Turner, MSN’s filters are now detecting content reproduced from other sites on a far stricter basis than any of their competitors and penalising the rankings of the sites concerned.
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