Sigh. Double sigh. Triple sigh. I guess now that the SEO industry has had the required twice-yearly debate about the reputation of SEO, it’s time to do the go round about cloaking once again. A quick word about cloaking has Google’s Matt Cutts trying to clarify concerns that Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped has been […]
Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped has published an unofficial Google Censorship FAQ. In this document he answers over 35 questions related to Google censorship. Yes, Google does censor search results in some countries. Have more questions, check out the Google Censorship FAQ.
Earlier this month, I wrote a long article looking at how some people at Digg might bury stories just because they disliked the topic rather than the story content itself. Indeed, many doing buries might not have read the article. Worse, they might use the bury reason of "spam" rather than more appropriate options. Unfortunately, […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
News.com reports that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have asked the US government for help when it comes to international censorship policies and law. The article has some more insight into the challenges the search companies face with countries like China. Right now, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have to make “moral judgments” about international authorities’ requests […]
Google has finally defused the “Google Bomb” that has returned US President George W. Bush at the top of its results in a search on miserable failure. The move wasn’t a post-State Of The Union Address gift for Bush. Instead, it’s part of an overall algorithm change designed to stop such mass link pranks from […]
Reader Michiel Ouwerkerk just dropped an email to say that Google Germany has disappeared. Sure enough, when I go there, I get a holding page from what looks to be hosting company Goneo: The message reads (umlauts and other German punctuation omitted, sorry!) Fur diese domain burden keine inhalte hinterlegt bitte schaen Sie zu einem […]
There's growing concern about the type of company Google is becoming. Yet Google's has survived these "tipping points" so far.