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Love to hear your insights or conspiracy theories if Facebook will eventually announce a partnership with Chinese search giant Baidu in the coming months. What they're doing is essentially what Baidu has been doing since it launched its Aladdin...
Will this put to rest claims of conspiracy theories between Google and Wikipedia? When you conduct searches on Bing, you’re actually more likely to see Wikipedia prominently in your search results than for the same search on Google, namely the No...
Beyond the "big brother is watching you" type conspiracy theories of Facebook's technology, there's one recurring concern. Facebook rarely tells users that they have changed the account privacy settings and nearly always automatically opts users...
Details of bin Laden's death, news coverage, and even conspiracy theories have dominated on the search engines. Bin Laden's death also prompted searches relating to 9/11 conspiracy theories, which rose 114 percent.
On the topic of conspiracy theories and weird science, in contrast to the entire Internet, this computational engine is refreshingly partisan on certain topics. Undoing Conspiracy Theory Just some of the suggestions from the blog post are:
Anyone who knows the best conspiracy theories of the 20th century can't blame Dylan Stephen Jayne for trying to sue Google. Every good conspiracy theorist knows that playing certain songs on LPs backwards is a Satanic chant.
So when Google starts to suddenly return disparaging results for that command, it raises a red flag in the industry, and the conspiracy theories fly. Is this worth a 4.0 on the SEO Richter scale? Probably not.
A longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members covers more of Cutts' talk, including a look at Google's indexing practices, and conspiracy theories debunked. In addition to being an oxymoron, though, the same writer reassures us...
Conspiracy Theories For his part, Brandt's involvement in theorizing about (and sometimes participating in) conspiracy theories long predates Google; in one instance, he picks up on small mentions in Bill Clinton's inaugural address from 1992...
Stale & Split Image Databases Fuel Google Conspiracy Theories and Google has announced its Google Images database now includes 1.1 billion images. In addition, it confirms what some have been seeing before, that images will now be displayed inline...
A conspiracy? A post at AnandTech raises concerns that Google Images fails to find pictures of US soldiers involved in the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal. In reality, just a failure of freshness on Google's part.
And the discussion groups were buzzing for days, with comments ranging from helpful tips for modifying content to wild conspiracy theories accusing Google of selling out or persecuting particular web sites.
