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| 1361: |  Why Groupon Said "No" to Google's $5 Billion Overture"Confirming lots of speculation, a source close to Groupon board members tells us that anti-trust concerns ultimately forced Groupon to turn down Google's $6 billion offer. This source says the view on Groupon's board was that a Google-Groupon merger would draw more regulatory scrutiny than any other deal Google has ever done." | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Dec 9, 2010 | ||
| 1362: | 8% of online Americans use Twitter "Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users." | Dec 9, 2010 | |||
| 1363: | Tripadvisor Blocks Reviews from Google "TripAdvisor confirmed the move today in an email, stating that while it continues to evaluate recent changes to Google Places it believes the user does not benefit with the "experience of selecting the right hotel"." | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Dec 9, 2010 | ||
| 1364: | Mobile Networks Want Apple, Facebook, Google, To Pay For Bandwidth "As mobile and Web companies add videos, music and games, operators including France Telecom SA, Telecom Italia SpA and Vodafone Group Plc want a new deal that would require content providers like Apple and Google to pay fees linked to usage." | Smartphone, Wireless, and Mobile Technologies | Dec 9, 2010 | ||
| 1365: | Mastercard Site Hit By 'Hacktivists' Over Wikileaks "It has pledged to launch denial-of-service attacks on websites it sees as anti-Wikileaks." | Foo | Dec 8, 2010 | ||
| 1366: | Google Shows Chrome PCs, With Shipments In 2011 "The Web-centric computers, intended as an incursion into territory dominated for years by Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc, will ship around the middle of 2011." | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Dec 8, 2010 | ||
| 1367: | IE9 Will Have a "No Tracking" Feature The next major milestone of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) will let users determine who tracks their movement and behavior online, in response to increasing calls for additional consumer control. | Microsoft Internet Explorer | Dec 8, 2010 | ||
| 1368: | Google Launches Global Market Finder, and Ads for Global Advertisers "Global Market Finder helps you answer the question: who are my potential customers overseas?" | Google AdWords | Dec 7, 2010 | ||
| 1369: | Google Wave To Live On As Apache Wave "During the summit, it became quite clear that there is a healthy community of startups, independent developers, and industry partners enthusiastic to continue development of the Wave Federation protocols and Wave in a Box product." | Apache Web Server | Dec 7, 2010 | ||
| 1370: | F.C.C. Opt-Out Privacy Plan May Hit Some Businesses Harder Than Others "If the vast majority of online users chose not to have their Internet activity tracked, the proposed 'do not track' system could have a severe effect on the industry, some experts say." | Foo | Dec 6, 2010 | ||
| 1371: | Facebook To Make Profiles More Prominent "We're rolling it out gradually and plan to get it to everyone by early next year." | Facebook Marketing | Dec 6, 2010 | ||
| 1372: | Google eBooks eBookstore Launches In U.S. "Google eBooks will be available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore." | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Dec 6, 2010 | ||
| 1373: | Tap Tap Tap - This Thing On? Only our 2nd new server in 11 years. We make the big move from Rackspace to LiquidWeb. | WebmasterWorld Community Center | Dec 4, 2010 | ||
| 1374: | For Mega-Site SEO, Structure is King - not Content "With mega SEO it's about making small strides over time that grouped together have a really big impact," according to Derrick Wheeler, SEO for Microsoft. | Google SEO News and Discussion | Dec 4, 2010 | ||
| 1375: | Google Updates and SERP Changes - December 2010 "WebmasterWorld's monthly SERP monitoring and update thread for December 2010." | Google SEO News and Discussion | Dec 4, 2010 | ||
| 1376: | Monte Cahn Leaving Oversee in December 2010 DN Journal is reporting that Monte Cahn is leaving Oversee upon the expiration of his contract, at the end of December 2010. Monte is the consummate businessman - savvy, personable, service oriented. Bon Chance, Monte! | Domain Names | Dec 4, 2010 | ||
| 1377: | How Search Engines Google and Bing Handle A Domain Name Change "WebmasterWorld Members discuss a recent domain name changeover from old to new. Bing and Google scrutinized." | Google SEO News and Discussion | Dec 3, 2010 | ||
| 1378: | Shopping Enabled Wikipedia Pages New On Amazon "Hosted on the Amazon.com domain, they replicate Wikipedia's content but have added links to where a book can be purchased on Amazon." | Ecommerce | Dec 3, 2010 | ||
| 1379: | Under Pressure - Google Finally Moves to Decrease DMCA Notice Response Times "...we're announcing four changes that we'll be implementing over the next several months..." | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Dec 2, 2010 | ||
| 1380: | Coupon Crazy Sites "There seems to be a site offering coupons for just about anything these days and WebmasterWorld Members decide to chew it over in a wide ranging discussion on the topic." | Ecommerce | Dec 2, 2010 | ||
| 1381: | Browser History File Hijack "Our study shows that popular Web 2.0 applications like mashups, aggregators, and sophisticated ad targeting are rife with different kinds of privacy-violating flows," | Webmaster General | Dec 2, 2010 | ||
| 1382: | FTC Online Privacy Plan Proposes 'Do Not Track' Option for Web Users "The F.T.C.'s proposal, a framework for commercial use of consumer data, would make consumer privacy the default position and would let Web users decide whether Internet sites and advertisers can build profiles of their browsing and buying habits as well as collect other personal information." | Foo | Dec 2, 2010 | ||
| 1383: | Google Responds to New York Times Article on Rankings Google says sentiment analysis is useless for search: "Google has a world-class sentiment analysis system (Large-Scale Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs). But if we demoted web pages that have negative comments against them, you might not be able to find information about many elected officials, not to mention a lot of important but controversial concepts. So far we have not found an effective way to significantly improve search using sentiment analysis. " | Google SEO News and Discussion | Dec 2, 2010 | ||
| 1384: | Google Set to Launch E-Book Venture - Google Editions "In recent weeks, independent booksellers, which are expected to play a big role in Google Editions, began receiving contracts from their trade group." | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Dec 1, 2010 | ||
| 1385: | Google Confirms - Social Media Signals Are Used in Some Search Results Danny Sullivan has published an excellent article and he's not just editorializing. He interviewed the two predominant search engines about their use of social media signals. | Google SEO News and Discussion | Dec 1, 2010 | ||
| 1386: | An Accessible CSS Content Hiding Method "WebmasterWorld Members discuss the legitimate reasons for hiding headers whether for image replacement purposes or not." | Accessibility and Usability | Dec 1, 2010 | ||
| 1387: | Relying on Traffic From A Single Source, Such As Google, May Hurt Your Business "WebmasterWorld Members discuss the issue of sites and businesses being hit by a search engine penalty and traffic nosediving. This is not new, and relying on a single source of traffic, such as Google, is a risk that some businesses continue to take. Isn't it time to review all traffic sources?" | Google SEO News and Discussion | Nov 30, 2010 | ||
| 1388: | E.U. Opens Investigation Into Google Over Alleged Abuse Of Dominant Position "The European Commission has decided to open an antitrust investigation into allegations that Google has abused a dominant position in online search," | Google Finance, Govt, Policy and Business Issues | Nov 30, 2010 | ||
| 1389: | Court Rejects Appeal By Tiffany Vs eBay Over Trademark "Tiffany said the case presented an extremely important question about allocating trademark rights and burdens in the modern Internet economy." | Content, Writing and Copyright | Nov 29, 2010 | ||
| 1390: | U.S. Authorities Shut Down File Sharing Sites "The investigative arm of the Homeland Security Department appears to be shutting down websites that facilitate copyright infringement." | Domain Names | Nov 29, 2010 | ||
| 1391: | U.S. Authorities Shut Down File Sharing Sites "Domains seized included a BitTorrent search engine, music download sites and shops selling fake designer clothing." | Foo | Nov 29, 2010 | ||
| 1392: | Twitter's CEO Admits It Lacks a Clear Long Term Vision "I am currently trying to define what Twitter's purpose is in the long term." | Nov 27, 2010 | |||
| 1393: | Win32k.sys Zero Day Flaw A Potential 'nightmare' "A new zero-day flaw has hit Windows, and it seems capable of slipping past user account controls, security researchers have said." | Microsoft Corporate | Nov 26, 2010 | ||
| 1394: | How Best To Start Showing My Own Videos On My Own Site "Is it better to go with a server upgrade with a faster processor, more RAM and more disk space, or is it still better to host the video with a video hosting service?" | Web Video Creation and Optimization | Nov 25, 2010 | ||
| 1395: | Google's Current Specifications for Robots Directives A very cool reference. Google's exact technical specification for handling robots.txt, robots meta tags and x-robots directives | Sitemaps, Meta Data, and robots.txt | Nov 24, 2010 | ||
| 1396: | Online Spending Expected To Break Records "We are seeing online spending surpass the totals we saw in 2007 prior to the recession," | Ecommerce | Nov 24, 2010 | ||
| 1397: | Patent Office Agrees To Facebook's "Face" Trademark While it seems so bizarre that a company should have the right to trademark a word as common as "Face" apparently the USPTO isn't at all disturbed. | Facebook Marketing | Nov 24, 2010 | ||
| 1398: | Tim Berners Lee: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality "Why should you care? Because the Web is yours. It is a public resource on which you, your business, your community and your government depend." | Webmaster General | Nov 23, 2010 | ||
| 1399: | How to Use Google Instant Previews to Drive More Traffic "WebmasterWorld Members discuss what impact Google instant previews will have on traffic, who will benefit, and how we can all benefit from it." | Google SEO News and Discussion | Nov 23, 2010 | ||
| 1400: | The Impact of Twitter Feeds on Google SERPs "WebmasterWorld Members experiment with Twitter feeds and discuss the impact of the data on Google's SERPs, with some interesting results." (-subscription required) | Google SEO | Nov 23, 2010 | ||
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