Squidoo, Mahalo, eHow, EzineArticles, etc etc etc just got validation for their business models and competition for the ad network that helps them monetize their sites. Google today launched their Knol project: The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their [...]

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Google, the superbrand and top global brand is also listed on the Better Business Bureaus (BBB) list of businesses as having an “unsatisfactory record.” The reason Google has this unsatisfactory rating from the BBB is because Google has failed “to respond to one or more complaints and or two or more otherwise unresolved.” The BBB [...]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google’s Knol Launches: Like Wikipedia, With Moderation After six months of testing, Google has formally rolled out Knol, a service designed to let people create pages of knowledge on any topic they [...]

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I feel bad for always seeming to pick on Google about showing inappropriate images in normal web search. But it’s happened again. This morning at the Search Engine Roundtable, I explained that a search for [educating] returns a “teacher standing over a student holding a small rod, with the student’s pants down leaning over a [...]

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Posted by Jane Copland SEOmoz is pretty lucky when it comes to blog comments in that we receive a lot of them. By most blog’s standards, our regular count of between twenty and sixty comments is quite enviable, trounced by the likes of Techcrunch but highly competitive in this industry. We also keep a relatively [...]

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