Topic: Slashdot

SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 14, 2010

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: How To Make Paid Social Media Ads Effective And Engaging While advertising on social media makes sense for advertisers, the owners of ‘free’ sites like Twitter and Facebook still need to […]

Baidu: The Official Google Blog You Seek Does Not Exist (& Don’t Even Try Looking For It)

Looking for the official Google blog post about Google deciding to to leave China over censorship? Don’t try finding it on China’s leading search engine, Baidu. It doesn’t appear to exist. Google’s post was titled “A new approach to China.” A good search engine, at least the American-based ones that I’m familiar with, will generally […]

3 Tips to Ensure B2B Content Gets SEO-friendly Citations

Increasing the external links to your website is one of the most important elements of a successful optimization strategy. They can boost your rankings in the search results, drive traffic, and increase your presence across the Web. But securing external links can be a challenge. That’s why it’s important to explore every opportunity to acquire […]

Google Unlocks 700 Million Posts In Search Bug Fix

Wired reports Google has fixed a year old bug where 700 million posts within a Usenet group were unsearchable via Google Groups. Google fixed this bug after Wired called them out for the blunder. Google sent Wired a response that read: It turns out there was a bug, a specific bug, that affected search within […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 24, 2009

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yahoo’s New Search Clothes — But Will It Help? (Probably Not) Less than a month after seeming to pull out of the search game by announcing a search outsourcing deal with […]

Beyond Voting: Why Editorially Driven Social News Sites Matter

Power to the people!  Sites like Digg, Reddit, Propeller and Mixx have become popular social news sites due to the community driven aspect that fuels them.  Traditionally these news sites offer “digital democracy” that entices users because they themselves are able to determine what is (and isn’t) news.  However, a different form of social news […]

Goodbye, Yahoo Picks

Children, gather ’round. When I was a boy, we didn’t have Digg. We didn’t have Slashdot. When we wanted a big traffic rush, we had to walk eight miles in the snow to Yahoo Picks — Yahoo Picks Of The Week & Picks Of The Day — and we liked it. But now, Yahoo Picks […]

Live Blogging: SMX Social Media – Social Media Marketing Essentials

I’m live blogging Search Marketing Expo Social Media. I see that Kim Krause Berg is also live blogging this session for Search Engine Roundtable, so now I feel all this competition with her. (Eric Lander at Search Engine Journal also live blogged it, as did aimClear Blog, so the competition is really heating up now.) […]

Techmeme Launches Leaderboard

This morning there was a ton of buzz about Techmeme launching the Techmeme Leaderboard. The leaderboard is now live at https://www.techmeme.com/lb, and Gabe Rivera posted some insight on how it works.

Yahoo Removes Message Boards: What Is To Come?

This morning, I was searching for a specific Yahoo message board and came up with nothing, so I assumed it was not there. Then I see that Slashdot reported the message boards have been removed. Yahoo informs us that they are “working on new ways for readers to comment on the news and participate in […]

Question & Answer Search Engines Ranked

Via Slashdot, What’s the Best Q&A Site? from MIT Technology Review tests several question and answer search engine services. They reviewed and ranked AnswerBag, Askville, Live QnA, Wondir, Yahoo Answers and Yedda. So how did they rank? Out of a total 12 points, Yahoo Answers scored 11 points, coming out tops.