Archive for May, 2011

Microsoft Making Company’s Biggest Acquisition: Skype

2011/05/10

The Wall Street Journal reported Microsoft has offered $8.5 billion for Skype in a move that would be the biggest acquisition of the company’s history.

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Beyond Blog Posts – A Guide to Innovative Content Types

2011/05/10

Posted by Tom Critchlow Producing great content is a high ROI activity. Too often however I see people focused on producing individual pieces of content aiming to get links and attention.

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Microsoft Buys Skype For $8.5 Billion, Now What?

2011/05/10

Over the past week there were rumors that Google and Facebook were both interested in buying Skype. Then Om Malik reported that Microsoft was really the one interested and the Wall Street Journal confirmed yesterday that Microsoft would be paying a remarkable $8.5 billion for the company, making it…

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Google Tests New Search Results Design

2011/05/10

Google frequently tests new interfaces, layouts, colors and placements of icons, buttons and links. But when they do these tests, it seems a very limited number of people see it..

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Google’s Second Attempt At Panda Relief Advice

2011/05/10

Google’s head of search, Amit Singhal, on Friday afternoon posted the second batch of advice for those webmasters harmed by the Google Panda/Farmer update…

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Google Readies Cloud Music Without Record Company Blessing

2011/05/10

It was almost exactly a year ago that Google briefly demo’d a cloud-based music service for Android that also allowed users to stream their iTunes libraries to Android handsets (see video below). That service was supposed to launch before holiday 2010

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NY Times Hates Google Or Just Simple Reporting?

2011/05/10

Over the weekend, Mother’s Day weekend, the New York Times released a story named Trying to Game Google on ‘Mother’s Day Flowers’. This article pretty much called out a few popular flower selling sites for manipulating Google’s search results with the use of buying links. Unlike J.C…

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NY Times Hates Google Or Just Simple Reporting?

2011/05/10

Over the weekend, Mother’s Day weekend, the New York Times released a story named Trying to Game Google on ‘Mother’s Day Flowers’. This article pretty much called out a few popular flower selling sites for manipulating Google’s search results with the use of buying links

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Google Wants Users To Confirm Business Listings

2011/05/10

David Mihm noted that Google Maps listings for businesses now include overlays asking if they are still operating, in the case of unclaimed or Places pages that may no longer be operating. Interesting they do not have a program to check if 0the phone number is working.

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