Alexa Bias Exposed by Top Google Engineers
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Alexa, the web site popularity and ranking measurement metric, has been widely accepted by the web publisher and online advertising world as a way to gauge the popularity of a site without viewing its log files.  In fact, Alexa rankings have become an important part in the formula of many online advertising firms, which feel [...]
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Lukas Smith has posted some ominous thoughts about the future of the LAMP stack in the online development world - specifically asking if the popularity of the grouping could be what might ultimately cause its downfall.   The issue is that there is simply not enough top qualified talent that knows LAMP well enough to hire. Or maybe its just too hard to find them? It seems all the good guys are already hired. As a result companies end up looking for other technology, not because they actually believe that these technologies are any better or worth the license fees that these usually require to be paid up...   He suggests two things that could be possible lead-ins to the "demise" of LAMP - the fact that LAMP just isn't taught along side other languages in school and that, since PHP is only just now getting into the offices of the "major players", there hasn't been enough time to prove to them that PHP has worth in their business.   Be sure to check out some of the great comments on this one.
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By Yin, Sara  Lori Sobel may be low profile, but don't underestimate her strategy to flip the search engine's fortunes. Reports Sara Yin PROFILE  You'd be forgiven for expecting Google to say more during its first public appearance in Singapore.
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Early on at Rojo  I wanted to encourage future employees to blog.  As long as there are clear rules about what you can and can't blog its not really a problem is it?  Blog about what you love about Rojo !  Blog about what you think is cool in the industry!  Just don't blog about anything we haven't released yet (without permission).  The running joke is that its company policy that you *must* have a blog.  Our CEO  has a blog and of course I have a blog (you're reading it right now!). I'd link to all of the blogs of our Engineers but I don't want anyone to hire them away!  After hearing about Google firing  an employee for blogging I was a bit upset.  I love Google.  They're a pretty good co ...
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Plus: Google apps for your site, and HP's pretexting debacle.
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GOOGLE, the world&#39;s number one search engine, has lost its edge. That&#39;s the considered view of software engineers who have been testing an early version of Microsoft&#39;s MSN Search service, released last week.
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There is growing speculation that Google is finding it harder than expected to muscle its way into the radio business.
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How forthcoming are search engines in disclosing their paid placement and paid inclusion policies?  They're better than they were a couple of years ago, but there's still room for improvement, according to a prominent watchdog group.
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Alexa has added some new enhancements to its Traffic Details information pages which offer geographic and audience reach information. Sites can now track their Traffic Rank per country and where their audiences are coming from around the globe. From the Alexa Blog: Where are users coming from Geographically? This one is a biggie. We are now reporting where [...]
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As a literary reporter, I spend most of my waking hours tracking people down and trying to connect the dots. Which is to say, Iâm a Google addict. In recent years, tons of ink has been spilled about Google â as a business model, as an intellectual phenomenon and as a way of reflecting on [...].
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Faced with ultimatum, Google finally responds Google researchers have at last responded to a hacker who says he's uncovered more than 40 YouTube flaws that put users at risk.â¦
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At Googleâs corporate campus, a squad of engineers strives to improve the quality of its searches by tweaking its ranking algorithm.
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This month&#39;s interview with Google&#39;s founders may be one of the least revealing pieces ever pasted between the covers of Playboy.
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Google seems to be taking steps to assure that &#8216;Made for AdSense&#8217; sites which are unfocused, decentralized and give no real value to the searcher; are not listed in Google results (again, I said taking steps). Aaron at SEO Buzz Box points to a conversation a web publisher had in Google Groups with Google&#8217;s Adam Lasnik [...]
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By Michael LiedtkeSAN FRANCISCO, Associated Press  INTERNET search leader Google Inc.
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Researchers at Rice University have discovered what they say is a flaw in the beta version of Google&#39;s (Profile, Products, Articles) Desktop Search product that could allow
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One Google engineer has had his picture taken with more than 100 luminaries who have visited the company.