Google Knol's competitors say nah, it's no threat -- but might it be to search results? Google now lets users have profiles; map spamming steps up a notch. Searching anonymously at Ask; stealth search start-up Cuill keynotes at SMX West and more.
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Competitors Respond & Time To Limit The Aggregators?
Last week, our Google Knol - Google's Play To Aggregate Knowledge Pages article covered the Wikipedia-like Google Knol product that Google is testing and may release in a few months. In that article, I noted how Know was aimed squarely at services like Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers, Mahalo and Squidoo. Since... - Google
Unifying And Putting More Emphasis On "Profiles"
Google Operating System discusses the integration of Google Profiles into most Google services and products and the unification of disparate profiles into a single master profile. Whether and how this might ultimately be integrated with Google's newly reinvigorated social network, Orkut, is unclear. Although they are much less extensive, Profiles... - Anatomy &
Optimization Of A Local Business Profile
Many local companies depend upon their information's presence in various directories in order to advertise themselves, and the basic instrument of these marketing efforts is the Business Profile. The majority of businesses out there pay little attention to these beyond wanting their name, address and phone numbers to be... - MapSpammers
Getting More Sophisticated
After the first relatively unsophisticated Google MapSpam bulk upload attempt became public, I had a long and interesting conversation with a webmaster who had spent many years implementing a "long tail search" campaign on behalf of local business in a major market. He pointed out that with a little bit... - Ask.com Launches
AskEraser Giving Searches Ability To Search Anonymously
Ask.com has launched AskEraser, giving searchers the ability to search anonymously. Ask.com told us about this tool back in July, and six months later, it's now live for all searchers to use. When a searcher activates AskEraser, Ask will stop recording the searcher's search queries and cookie information. This information... - Will Google
Have Trouble Finding A New CFO?
In August Google CFO George Reyes announced he was retiring. Reyes joined Google in 2002 and was the executive who helped the company through its IPO and subsequent growth. Forbes now estimates his stock is worth more than $200 million. The same article in Forbes also speculates that Google may... - Introduction
To Trusted Source Link Streams
Whenever I begin a link building and content publicity project, I start with research. One of the areas I research is trusted sources. The type of trusted sources I am referring to are those people that have already shown an interest in the topic of the site I'm building... - SMX West
Keynotes Focus On "Future of Search"
It's probably no shock that the keynotes at Search Marketing Expo - SMX West in Santa Clara in February are going to be about the future of search marketing and technologies. SearchEngineLand's own Danny Sullivan will kick off SMX West with "Search 3.0, Search 4.0 and Beyond." He'll discuss the... - Study: Googling oneself is more popular
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