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Facebook Sues German Social Network StudiVZ (45)
on TechCrunch (11404) permalinkFacebook is pursuiting social networks it believes have copied their design or features by suing German social network StudiVZ. The Financial Times has reported that Facebook have filed a suit in the Californian Supreme Court against the German company for what it claims is an infringement of Facebooks “look, feel, features and services”. StudiVZ claims to have 10 million active members, and is the largest social network in the German speaking world, covering Germany, Belgium ...Shared by Adam (167) aemkei (54) AJ (1214) Alex (109) Alex Kapranoff (67) Andrew Girdwood (78) Andy (80) Angus (98) Archit T (62) arty (114) assbach (79) Benjamin (3438) Bill (356) Boris (42) Brad Kovach (30) Brian (65) Carlos (28) Chris White (29) David LEVY (42) Derek (220) Derek Karchner (14) Greg (23) guy (2721) Hisham (127) Holger E (66) Jaap Willem (17) jon|k (30) Josh (119) Kerry (147) Mark (131) Mushin (185) Mustafa K. Isik (21) onlythoughtworks (54) phil (50) Riaz (39) Ritu (982) RyneNelson (1248) Shinya ICHINOHE (88) Sigrid (53) Tal Siach (2525) Thomas (30) truman (22) yojibee (76) Yung-Hui Lim (135) zeroinfluencer (27)Contribute comment
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American Airlines Drops Google Lawsuit (1)
on WebProNews Feed (20) permalinkThe use of competitor keywords had American flying into the courtroom, but both sides taxied out with a quiet and confidential settlement. read moreShared by Andrew Girdwood (78)Contribute comment
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Google's Services Converge in the New iGoogle (87)
on Google Operating System (1849) permalinkIs this Google Reader? It's actually an iGoogle feed in canvas view, which happens to borrow Google Reader's interface. If you click on the drop-down, you can access all your Google Reader subscriptions.Is this Gmail? It's the Gmail gadget in canvas view, but you get almost all the features available in Gmail's standard interface.Is this Gmail Chat? It's the chat feature from Gmail integrated in iGoogle's sidebar so that you can chat with your contacts ...Shared by abe (209) Adam (167) Alex (1) Andrew Girdwood (78) arturo.servin (147) atul (513) Avinash (41) badpazzword (68) Bhavesh (123) Brit (180) Cast42 (63) cdogzilla (88) Cédric Merland (6) Dave E. (19) David (82) duguguiyu (10) Dzu (193) Eater (115) Edwin Khodabakchian (32) ehu4ever (535) eighthrs (2) everyone loves a wee sombrero (426) Fernando B (7) fyc (210) geekblake (20) gisc (178) Gothy (90) Götz (28) Greg Tidwell (54) handir (196) HBreda (255) hombrelobo (62) howking (12) imma (43) Israel (17) Javed (443) JensMinor (9) Joe (26) JuanPablo (8) Jupega (25) Karpuscul (57) KenFan (396) Leo Romanovsky (54) louisgray (702) Lu Tao (511) Mathieu Ravaux (86) Mihai (11) Mike F (2195) naovouporai (111) Nathan Reale (182) Nick (42) noattention (292) Patrick (41) Paul (201) paul (32) Peter (136) Philou (133) pio (2) pkj (56) PMinze (182) Polle de Maagt (39) Pozsi (23) ppalli (74) presveva (75) R (216) R Daneel Olivaw (64) reisfeldt (46) Riaz (39) ricardo (255) Robert Birming (339) Rodrigo (44) romano (153) Roy (23) rveguilla (56) Sam (138) Scott (23) Slim (10) StevieB (171) Tewe (16) The Big Guy (18) Tim (30) Tom (37) Tommy (31) Tony Ruscoe (50) Will WM (20) xeal (79) Yvette (32)Contribute comment
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Fighting For Its Life, Yahoo Uses Homepage To Battle Icahn (76)
on TechCrunch (11404) permalinkYahoo is pulling out its biggest gun in the showdown with Carl Icahn: the Yahoo homepage itself. Right now on Yahoo.com, the single most-visited page on the Web (with 304 million unique visitors worldwide in May, according to comScore), there is a big purple button the third box down aimed squarely at Yahoo shareholders. The button takes people to this page where Yahoo outlines its argument against investor Carl Icahn, who wants to replace Yahoo’s ...Shared by Ahmed (50) Alex (109) Alex Dumitru (2053) Alex Kapranoff (67) Andrei (175) Andrew (33) Andrew Girdwood (78) Andrew Ruess (628) Avi (3657) Azeem (97) Babychen Mathew (1758) Bertrand Doux (3) Brenton (16) Brian Benzinger (13) Brooke Adcox (24) Carbonlord (1319) cesaracardoso (185) dagorret.digg@gmail.com (2018) Dan (90) Danny (8) David (65) David (10) Deborah Petersen (3464) Derek (220) Digg Boss (2967) dobata (1581) EricAppel (29) Ethan (169) everyone loves a wee sombrero (426) Fenng (264) Gabriel (76) GP (177) Haidong (54) iAlja (273) Igor Poltavskiy (237) ionela (627) Jakob (148) Jawad Shuaib (52) Jeff Rasmussen (48) Jeffrey (34) Jim (41) Jim Wilkerson (58) joekwon (57) Jonathan Sterling (138) JonMoss-theappleofmyi (613) Jorge (17) Jrod (322) King (38) Levon Karayan (44) Matt Van Horn (84) Merlin (48) metaeuphoria (146) Michael Neel (88) Mike F (2195) Mushin (185) MV (117) Nick Nogueira (116) Pat (54) Rex (839) Riaz (39) ricardo (255) Rick Turoczy (127) Rob (378) Sacha (107) sadiq kassamali (320) saj (29) Satya (80) saxjazman9 (93) sumidiot (41) Sun Tzu (2971) SuperSpiker (39) Travis (87) truman (22) War-N (51) warrior007 (1513) 猫影 (136)Explore read five notes
- David said: wow!
- Sacha said: about time they fought back!
- Haidong said: It's not likely to see anywhere else
- Jorge said: Wow. I have a feeling this could really backfire on Yahoo! and I hope it does. The shareholders deserve more than what the management has been giving them.
- everyone loves a wee sombrero said: Have to admit, I'm still a Yahoo fan. Jumped ship from Hotmail to Yahoo very early on and used to love the Yahoo!Clubs and boards.
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New Google Campaign Consolidates Targeted AdWords (6)
on Mashable! (5710) permalinkGoogle today unveiled a campaign for a bit of AdWords “consolidation,” as it’s being phrased. The objective is to make for potentially more effective management of “keyword-targeted” and “placement-targeted” advertising campaigns. Simply put, it’s to enhance targeting on the Google’s network, which allows ads to be placed on specific pages or anywhere on the Web deemed relevant through keyword association. Exciting news? Perhaps not. The ability do channel advertisements through both processes has been available ...Shared by Andrew Girdwood (78) Bambi (19) Bill Shakes (84) GeniusBoyWonder (72) markus1970 (77) prexec (94)Contribute comment
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Google Only Uses Exact Match Data for Quality Score Metrics (1)
on Search Engine Roundtable (128) permalinkThis may be an obvious fact for many Google AdWords professionals, but I am sure many people do not know this. According to a Google AdWords representative, Google only uses exact match data for quality score analysis data. AdWordsPro Sarah...Shared by Andrew Girdwood (78)Contribute comment
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How To Build Links Easily & Without Spending A Penny (1)
on Affiliate Marketing Blog (2) permalinkYou know I'm always harping on about writing good content and the links will follow, well sometimes you need to give yourself a quick leg-up.You have to start somewhere; so when you've got a site that really offers value, has something different or you're just desperate for links and eyeballs, here's what to do.You probably won't have Google's Adplanner (which is awesome) or Hitwise, but you'll have access to Alexa, Dmoz Google and Yahoo!If you ...Shared by Andrew Girdwood (78)Contribute comment
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Technologies behind Google ranking (115)
on The Official Google Blog (1314) permalinkIn my previous post, I introduced the philosophies behind Google ranking. As part of our effort to discuss search quality, I want to tell you more about the technologies behind our ranking. The core technology in our ranking system comes from the academic field of Information Retrieval (IR). The IR community has studied search for almost 50 years. It uses statistical signals of word salience, like word frequency, to rank pages. (See "Modern Information Retrieval: ...Shared by Aaron Brazell (157) abhi (21) Adam (496) aemkei (54) agam panwar (170) Andrew Bruce Smith (103) Andrew Ferguson (19) Andrew Girdwood (78) Andy Roberts (122) Andy Wibbels (232) Ann Smarty (130) Anthony (172) Anu (20) Avinash (407) Borzo (53) Brandon Bloom (18) Bruce (54) Calvin (8) CB (132) Cédric Merland (6) Chris H (22) Chris. F. Masse (274) chrishawn (45) Christelle (6) Christopher (110) Chung (337) danblank (27) Derek (220) Derek (46) dobata (1581) Dr. Ernie (124) ema (42) ephes (105) Eric (45) Evan (5) Fernando (11) Ganesh (6) gisc (178) Go (159) Goulu (43) Haisheng Wu (36) handir (196) Hiten Shah (19) Igor Poltavskiy (237) Ihar Mahaniok (58) Ionut (49) Jake (29) jamesvandyke (7) Javed (443) Jemima Kiss (142) Jérôme (25) junal (32) Justin Schmidt (17) Justin Yost (163) kan65535 (103) Kaveh Dorafshan (289) Lantash (40) Lars K Jensen (48) Laughing Squid (292) Lee Odden (13) leogodoy (31) liamvictor (723) Linda (11) livibetter (63) Lu Tao (511) Maksim Berjoza (126) Michel Rijnders (26) Mike F (2195) mitja_i (6) mjs (30) Musa (25) Navid (272) Nicolas Lehuen (60) noel (33) Ognjen (121) Pankaj (5) Paul (201) Paul (29) Peter N (17) pflix (28) Phreak 2.0 (207) Powera (115) Prakash (5) prsinghdua (51) R (216) rapsodica (4) Reece (36) Rob Jongschaap (473) Robert Birming (339) Roel (93) Rosha (410) rungss (16) Sam (138) Sante J. Achille (49) Seth (52) Seth G (54) shenshen (5) shuman (13) Siva (70) Siva (32) smuggyuk (10) Srinvard (280) stratus (45) Tad Chef (627) Thaths (12) tobias (28) Umang Saini (24) Vempati Sreekanth (8) Vinicius Braga (20) walterra (32) web (40) Yaakov (23) yoshy (1237) YuSuPh (181) 康爷 (116)Explore read nine notes
- smuggyuk said: It is great that they tell us all about their great synonym and concept systems, what would have been a better post would be to tell us they're opening up these great systems via an API so others can make use of the hard work they've put in. Shame!
- Ihar Mahaniok said: Great examples by Amit. As for me, localizing globally is one of the greatest challenge, but it's worth it..
- Linda said: This just astounds me.
- Umang Saini said: Lots of bragging about the queries they got right. What about the ones that fail flatly?Interesting work in IR, whatever that is :-)
- Brandon Bloom said: You already know this, but it is nice to hear spelled out: "Google is really good at search"
- Eric said: Interesting to see how their system can distinguish between what you actually searched for and what you wanted to search for. The synonyms based upon intent are amazing stuff.
- shuman said: Some good explanations of the technical challenges Google search handles.
- Reece said: Google gives it to you in, fairly, plain English. Unfortunately, they describe basic search and retrieval concepts in a way that makes the reader think they invented them. Hardly standing on the shoulders of giants . . .
- Derek said: really interesting look into all of the strides Google has made in search
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Delver's social media search (2)
on Bigmouthmedia search engine news: Main Headlines (9) permalinkBigmouthmedia yesterday reported the launch of new social search engine, Scour, which allows users to vote and comment on search results from major search engines. Today we bring you another service, Delver, which has been described as a "social search engine". Delver is now in alpha testing and could more accurately be described as a social media search engine.Sign up to Delver and it correlates your various identities across social media sites such as Digg, ...Shared by Andrew Girdwood (78) Scimon (9)Contribute comment
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Twitter gets search friendly with Summize (1)
on Bigmouthmedia search engine news: Main Headlines (9) permalinkIs Twitter 2008's answer to Facebook? The micro-blogging service, which allows people to post updates on their activities, has enjoyed a huge rise in popularity since the start of the year, not least due to the flurry of activity from prominent posters like Barack Obama.And in a deal that's had Silicon Valley insiders shaking with delight this week, it's been revealed that Twitter has acquired the search engine Summize, a company who launched their own ...Shared by Andrew Girdwood (78)Contribute comment
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Lawyer Derided Over Google Domain Ad Suit (1)
on WebProNews Feed (20) permalinkThe litigant sought class action status for his lawsuit after an investment of $136.11 failed to bring him conversions from parked domains. read moreShared by Andrew Girdwood (78)Contribute comment
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AOL spammer jailed for 30 months (2)
on The Register (485) permalinkOne minute behind bars for every junk mail A New Yorker was jailed for 30 months on Tuesday after being convicted for spamming 1.2 million AOL members with junk mail.…Shared by Alberto (85) Andrew Girdwood (78)Contribute comment
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Google Improves Flash Indexing Again (2)
on Search Engine Roundtable (128) permalinkOn the first day of this month, we reported that Google and Yahoo were to begin indexing Flash files. According to the pertinent Google Webmaster Central blog post, Google is able to crawl the contextual elements in these blog posts....Shared by Andrew Girdwood (78) David Erickson (427)Contribute comment
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Periscope starts buying ‘tribble agency’ keywords in Google (1)
on Tribble Ad Agency : The Advertising Agency of Record (6) permalinkThank you dailybiz for finding this for us. Instead of trying to rank on their own merit in Google, Periscope instead opts to buy our keywords in Google. For once maybe these agencies should try to rank on their own for their own keyword sets rather than simplistically buying them…. and see the screen shot for the boatload of agencies that are buying the Tribble Ad Agency name. If we were one of the agencies ...Shared by Andrew Girdwood (78)Contribute comment
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Google's "Edit Search Results" Experiment (21)
on Google Operating System (1849) permalinkGoogle tests an enhanced version of last year's experiment that allowed users to hide search results and to move some results at the top of the page. The new experiment adds an option to comment on a search results and to view everyone's edits.According to the FAQ, "your comments and the webpages you add, promote, or delete, along with the user nickname for the account you're logged in with, may be viewed by other Google ...Shared by Adam (496) Alan Dean (264) Ameer (78) Andrew Girdwood (78) Angela (21) atul (513) Chris C (23) Earl E Morningwood (166) gabopagan (170) Glen Horton (89) graywolf (165) juzcoim (44) livibetter (63) Mark Cramer (65) Navid (272) Paul (201) R (216) ricardo (255) Troed Sångberg (19) xrx (90) 康爷 (116)Contribute comment
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Introducing the Google Webmaster Tools Access Provider Program (22)
on The Official Google Blog (1314) permalinkPosted by Liza Ma, Associate Product ManagerCreating content for the web is easy, but getting people to discover it can be a challenge. When we launched Google Webmaster Tools in 2006, the goal was to reach as many webmasters as possible in order to help them create more search engine-friendly sites. We wanted to help webmasters understand how their sites interact with Google, and we've introduced a number of features that help webmasters identify and ...Shared by Andrew Girdwood (78) charlie anzman (377) ema (42) emacsian (20) Garsen (56) JohnMu (48) livibetter (63) LouCypher (404) Mark (60) michael (37) Mike F (2195) Mike Reardon (45) myvahid (74) Patty (1017) Paul Helmick (192) pawel (21) Régis (12) Seth (52) Srinvard (280) Tony Ruscoe (50) Travis (87) zeb (72)Contribute comment
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Booting Your Competitors From Google's Local Results in Web Search (4)
on Search Engine Roundtable (128) permalinkEver since Google launched Universal Search, SEMs have been trying to leverage it to get their site into the first position within the vertical search engine that is ranking in the top slot. So for searches like new your hotel where Google Local results dominate the top of the first page, securing a spot in those results may be critical to your SEO campaign for those search terms. One webmaster posted a thread at WebmasterWorld ...Contribute comment
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Google Trends Subverted Again. This Is Getting (ʎllɐǝɹ) Embarrasing (85)
on TechCrunch (11404) permalinkLast week a Swastika appeared on Google trends as a top queried term (leading to an endless debate as to whether the symbol was offensive or not). Google removed the symbol and returned our email query saying that a link on a a popular Internet bulletin board was to blame: The Hot Trends list is automatically generated by machines and algorithms that detect hot or breaking queries. In this case, it appears that the html ...Shared by Aashay (55) AJD (8) Allen Thompson (37) Amihai (45) André Elias (224) Andrei (21) Andrew (33) Andrew Girdwood (78) Ankur (147) arturo.servin (147) av8612 (57) Ben (67) Benjamin (3438) Borzo (53) Brad (111) Brit (180) Burad (121) Clint (102) Coxymoney (103) Dan (231) Dan McCall (53) Dave (238) DeadRinga (182) Deb (17) Del (102) dew (17) dmkinteractive (106) Eater (115) embee (626) evo (55) Fatsleroy (300) Forrest (92) Frederic (199) G$ (49) George (16) giginger (87) Gina 'foosel' Häußge (30) haggaret (64) Isaac (50) jaehyun (33) Jamie R (51) John (129) Jonathan C. Dietrich (17) Jonathan Sterling (138) JonMoss-theappleofmyi (613) JRS (9) Jun Labao (85) Keef (91) Kenneth Jackson (11) Kevin Grandia (395) Kris (60) KRZ (41) kskobac (43) Lester (519) LouCypher (404) louisgray (702) Manish (88) metaeuphoria (146) Michael (78) Michelynn (115) minnesotan (10) MrManson (19) Mushin (185) Muzo (54) Nate (216) Neagrigore (128) Ozgur Alaz, Marketallica (175) Paul (201) Phil (85) prattmic (280) Priyadarsan Venugopalan (94) Rob (378) sarahintampa (390) Sid (8) sillyjw (82) Stephen (86) sugree (247) sumidiot (41) tarmo888 (6) Tech For Novices (361) Ted (43) Tim (30) Tim (29) Woland783 (76) 毛毛虫 (2)Explore read six notesContribute comment
- Facebook Puts A Diplomat In Charge Of The Platform (22)
