Amazon Promotes Askville & LinkedIn Launches Answers Services

Gary Price spotted Amazon promoting Askville more aggressively the other day. For example, a search on travel new york city brings up an Askville promotion all the way at the bottom left of the page, it looks like this: Also, Kev at SEOptimise notes that LinkedIn launched an Answers service early this morning. You can […]

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Gary Price spotted Amazon promoting Askville more aggressively the other day. For example, a search on travel new york city brings up an Askville promotion all the way at the bottom left of the page, it looks like this:

Askville Amazon

Also, Kev at SEOptimise notes that LinkedIn launched an Answers service early this morning. You can see it at https://www.linkedin.com/answers?trk=tab_answers. Yes, this is brand new, because last night I was updating my LinkedIn profile and it was not one of the options.

All very timely efforts by Amazon (Askville) and LinkedIn after Google dropped their Answers product, as Forbes hints to.


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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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