I like the philosophy of never making a fool out of someone who's already doing a dandy job of it all alone. I generally try to stop short of being abusive, but sometimes, it's a real challenge. Yet, still, these myths pop up time after time on...
Article spinning is a technique designed to fool Googlebot into thinking that hundreds of pages are linking to a particular website - however every page published is machine written junk or pure gibberish.
Viggle is one of the newest apps on the block, but don’t let the newness fool you – Viggle is all business and their business is good. Further down the road, we’ll see content where users can vote in near real-time to decide the plot of a show.
Otherwise, it’s just making a fool of yourself in public. When you go down the link bait high road it can lead to real results. That means all the time that went into the creation of your 3-month case study may not gain the attention you’d hoped.
A popular trend that security researchers are seeing on social networking sites is the proliferation of fake gift card pages and scams -- where scammers attempt to fool victims into believing they can qualify for a gift card (basically free cash...
Cornett: Did something as an April Fool's, we launched something as are you liberal or conservative - returned news related to bias. Use as hints to make sense of real-time information.am Q from Murray: Are their privacy concerns in personalization?
The average worried mother whose kid wakes up screaming with an ear infection in the middle of the night probably doesn't realize that any fool can edit that page and change the correct information. With that in mind, when a search engine discovers...
Is Yahoo Underground an April Fool's Joke? E-consultancy publishes online PR briefingE-consultancy has published an Online PR Briefing, which includes a summary of a recent roundtable discussion on this topic, plus other information about market...
Is Yahoo Underground an April Fool's Joke? ZoomInfo Retools Its Business Info SearchBusiness information search engine ZoomInfo has retooled its offering to create a single user interface for its various products.
Others will deliberately mislabel content to attempt to fool search engines. Social search is garnering a lot of attention these days, but despite all the hoopla it's not likely to displace traditional algorithmic search any time soon.What is...
How Google Is Killing The Internet Seth Jayson has written an interesting piece "How Google is killing the internet" over at The Motley Fool. Search: Thy Name Is Google' Last week, MediaPost reported on an Outsell report, "How Information Providers...
April Fool's Day 2006 Local.com Gets Pay-Per-Call - Infospace has released a new Infospace Local Search site that's in beta. For years, those seeking specialty financial information via Google have been sent to competitors such as Yahoo and MSN.
I know, it's not April Fool's. Mamma.com Launches Health Information Vertical - Metasearch company Mamma.com has introduced Health Search, offering real-time search of some of the most authoritative sources of health information on the web.
There are FTC guidelines and it is unethical to try to fool people. Nazzaro then gave a short overview of Intelliseek, "a marketing intelligence firm specializing in real-time analysis of online buzz and consumer-generated media.
No, it's not April Fool's Day. I do know that the last time I looked at that page as recorded in Google's cache, Google had recorded the cloaked content as of March 7 at 4:54am GMT. Googlebot" (the Google Search Appliance uses "Googlebot" as a...
Another first -- search engines playing April Fool's Jokes. In this story, a breakdown of facts and figures from the financial information the company has now published for the first time. The Googlossary has terms that may or may not actually be...
Owning the Standard for Search Engines TheStreet, May 26, 2004 http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2004/commentary040526sh.htm In this story, a breakdown of facts and figures from the financial information the company has now published for the...
Motley Fool Jun 18 2004 7:42PM GMT Terror Alert: Real-time updates of the current terror alert level in the U.S. Smart Search is about providing the right information in the right place at the right time," said Jim Lanzone, vice-president of...
Owning the Standard for Search Engines TheStreet, May 26, 2004 http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2004/commentary040526sh.htm A full agenda and more information can be found here: Basic information about these shows can be found via the URL below:
Motley Fool May 25 2004 2:15AM GMT Above The Fold Organic: This was considered the "prime real estate. If relevant sites were found on the first page, only one participant took the time to also check listings on the second (and third) page of...
