FRANCOIS LENOIR/REUTERS A computer user poses in front of a Google search page in this photo illustration. Friday marked the opening of service that will remove questionable data. An awful lot of people do not want to be remembered by Google. The giant Internet search engine company received 12,000 requests to be “forgotten” on the […]
A sign advertising the Qihoo 360 Technology Co Ltd is hung with the U.S. and Chinese flags outside of the New York Stock Exchange before the company’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) in New York March 30, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson
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Portent, a Seattle-based Internet marketing agency, has released a report offering new insight into Google’s Penguin algorithm. The report, based on primary data gathered by the agency, suggested that Google has been “applying a stricter standard over time.” In part, the report reads: In the initial Penguin update, the only sites we saw penalized had […]
Stephen Wolfram, a 52-year-old scientist, software designer and entrepreneur, tends to go his own way — often with noteworthy results. He published his first physics paper at 15, earned his Ph.D. from Caltech at 20 and two years later won a MacArthur prize. Less than three years ago, Dr. Wolfram created a new kind of […]
Published: 6:51 p.m. Sunday, March 27, 2011 Six years ago, Union Square Ventures had to work hard to persuade Indeed.com to take its money. The New York venture capital firm, known for its early investments in Twitter and Zynga, wanted to invest in an online job site and determined that year-old Indeed was the best candidate. “We tried to make […]
You’d better think twice before trying to game Google. For websites that want to be found with the Web’s most popular search engine, the company lays out some very specific guidelines. But color outside the lines, and you might find that your prime page-one search ranking has slipped to the barely-visible back pages on Google. […]
You’d better think twice before trying to game Google. For websites that want to be found with the Web’s most popular search engine, the company lays out some very specific guidelines. But color outside the lines, and you might find that your prime page-one search ranking has slipped to the barely-visible back pages on Google. […]
Search engines are getting more powerful — just take a look at Google. According to PCWorld.co.nz, Google admitted to setting up an algorithm to weed out bad businesses. Google’s Amit Singhal said in a blog post: “I am here to tell you that being bad is, and hopefully will always be, […]
Investors should buy bullish Yahoo! Inc. options because the company, which has the second-biggest U.S. search engine, probably will be sold, Susquehanna International Group LLP said. Susquehanna strategists recommended buying a January 2012 $15 call while selling a January 2012 $20 call, a strategy known as a call spread which cuts the cost of the […]