Chartbeat Gets $9.5 Million In Funding
Real-time analytics is becoming big business as the scale on online activity increases and businesses look to tap into multiple search and social media traffic sources. This has caused many players to up their game in the marketplace and one such player is Chartbeat,...
Google Penguin Update: A Lesson In Cloaking
There are a number of reasons your site might have been hit by Google’s recent Penguin update (formerly known as the Webspam update). Barring any unintended penalties, the algorithm has wiped out sites engaging in webspam and black hat SEO tactics. In other words, Google has targeted any site that is violating its quality guidelines.
One major...
AFW.com Domain Name Sold For $125,000
Recently on GoDaddy.com the domain name AFW.com sold for $125,000. This was one of the company’s top sales for the month, and one of the few 6 figure domain names that were sold. Come to find out the AFW will stand for American Furniture Warehouse: “American...
Penguins, Pandas, and Panic at the Zoo
Posted by Dr. Pete
Google’s war on lovable critters escalated on April 24th with the release of the “Penguin” update (originally dubbed the “webspam update” by Google). While every major algorithm update causes some protest, post-Penguin panic seems to be at near record levels, worsened by weeks of speculation...
Drive Failures Affecting Some Customers' Rankings and Reports
Posted by Thomas McElroy
Late Sunday night through Monday, the harddrives responsible for most of our rankings system failed. These failures have resulted in slower rankings collection, but has not resulted in lost data.
Update for 5/3/2012-
Monday's rankings are collected and Tuesday's are progressing as expected.
We have started...
The Pirate Bay copyright crackdown is unsustainable | James Ball
To block even one high-profile filesharing website would quickly require apparatus as sophisticated as the great firewall of China
The battle against those who violate copyright is escalating: a UK court has ordered the country's internet service providers (ISPs) to block the Pirate Bay website for copyright violations, using technology...
Are parents to blame if kids view pornography?
Children should be protected from inappropriate material on the internet, but does responsibility lie solely with their parents?
Luisa Dillner: writer and parent
Who's to blame if your child watches porn? It's the greedy internet service providers, say MPs from an all-party committee, who want ISPs to apply automatic filters to prevent access to...
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Local newspapers' crisis: City guilty of short-termism, says former chief
In yesterday's extract from What do we mean by local?* the former regional newspaper chief, Chris Oakley, told of his time running Midland Independent Newspapers (MIN) until it was sold to the Mirror Group.
Today, we pick up his story following his appointment as chief executive of Regional Independent Media (RIM), whose flagship title was the...
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AOL Sells 800 Patents To Microsoft For $1.1 Billion
What do you do when you are struggling tech and media company that can’t seem to make enough money in your core business? Why you create a veritable digital garage sale of course, and this is exactly what AOL has done with some of its patents—800 to be exa...
Lee Odden: What You Need to Know about Optimization
What is optimization? The dictionary definition, according to Merriam-Webster, optimization is:
“An act, process, or methodology of making something (as a design, system, or decision) as fully perfect, functional, or effective as possible; specifically: the mathematical procedures (as finding the maximum of a function) involved in this.”
In the...