Much has been said already about Bing, the new SE from Microsoft and the $100 million dollars being used to promote it. The bottom line is this – is it helpful in exploring our chosen corners of the web?
Which is the best search engine for your vertical?
Maybe we no longer have to all choose the same one (more or less) for all queries ?
Picked up from the MIT technology review post – What’s Microsoft’s Bing Strategy?
30 years after the revolution. In the words of Ian Black “…minority groups are persecuted and the media often faces repression, one reason why Iran has such a vibrant blogosphere and alternative Art scene.” src: The Guardian – audio slide show
Here’s a short visual essay produced by 4 students from the Vancouver Film School.
Great design for this website accompanying Damiem Hirst’s “For the Love of God” exhibited at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Visitors are given the opportunity to air their opinions at the museum and have them published on the website.
“Never before has a work of art provoked as much dialogue as Damien Hirst’s “For the Love of God”. On this site you will encounter a whole universe of opinions by those who have actually seen the piece at the Rijksmuseum”.
I see Google is extending Adsense to domains starting in the US – blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch
This news will have had typosquatters up and down the country jumping for joy, ‘what economic crisis?’ ‘buy fireworks’, ‘organise a street parade!’
Not so fast Mr.Typo.
A small but none insignificant piece of news was seen of late. Changes have been noticed in recent SERPs for misspelling. I can’t say I’ve seen any change – here in France at least and using google.uk or google.com – but the chief spam-killer at Google: Matt Cutts remarked on Patrick Altoft of BlogStorm being the first to have noticed this and that kinda ads a little weight to the idea that this is a path they will follow.
SERP for search engine optimisation
Nutshell analaysis – Big G swoops down in bright red under-crackers, taps good guy on the back while kicking bad guy in the knackers.
You only have to look at clickety heat maps like this one to know that that can really make your eyes water.
French Secretary of State Yves J̩go announced in November a new Government backed web site dedicated to promoting tourism to over-seas territories: Voyageoutremer.com. Alors Рnobody registered the domain name.
Petit detail that didn’t go unnoticed by CLASH an assosiaton based on the island of St.Barthelemy, who slapped on a redirect and swiftly made hay in the light of free publicity, underlining there own vindication namely; changing the date slavery abolition is celebrated in their corner of the W.Indies. Src: www.silicon.fr
out today for trademark owners. First of a 3 step squeeze ‘em. Next squeeze: free-for-all at premium prices 3rd Feb 09. Squeeze 3: General availability 24th March. A must have? Then get there before the homonyms and cybersquatters.
Must admit I was a little surprised to come accross OVH the n°1 hosting provider in France (so they say) on a netcraft report using the typo faccebook.fr to leach traffic from Big Book of Faces. Or should I not be surprised at all maybe? What’s source for the goose… I suppose. Still, bit much…no?
Src: netcraft
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