1. Google and the New Digital Future 2 hours ago   permalink

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November 9 is one of those strange dates haunted by history. On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, signaling the collapse of the Soviet empire. The Nazis organized Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938, beginning their all-out campaign against Jews. On November 9, 1923, Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch was crushed in Munich, and on November 9, 1918, ...

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2. OpenAIRE: Archive Access Anytime, Anywhere 7 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Article: Formally embracing the open access ethic, the European Commission has decided to require that results from research it funds in some fields — such as health, energy, environment, information and communication technologies, research infrastructures, social sciences and humanities — become freely available. Authors will ...

3. The Listening Library 7 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Wired Campus Post: About a year ago, a library administrator was tinkering with text-enlarging software, which makes it easier for visually impaired students to read. She found that the software could also turn text into sound, and thought it would make sense to make the program available to all students. Seventeen computers at labs ...

4. Daily Search Forum Recap: 9 hours ago   permalink

Barry / Search Engine Roundtable

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

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Daily Search Forum Recap: Find, organize and share info with Zakta social search   —  Zakta is a search engine which is human powered and social. This means that you can find information that has been checked for quality by real people. You can also personalize, share and discover information you find when you search the web with Zakta. Sundar Kadayam, Founder and CEO of Zakta, explains that he created Zakta to help solve the ...

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Daily Search Forum Recap: What Are Google's 200 Search Engine Ranking Factors?   —  A neat new WebmasterWorld thread is trying to do the impossible by putting down on paper, what exactly are the 200 or so search engine ranking factors used by Google. The thread creator put out a few dozen ranking factors,...

5. Italian Govt. Seeks Jail Time For Google Execs 12 hours ago   permalink

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The Associated Press reported that Italian prosecutors are seeking "six-month to a year sentences for four Google executives Wednesday over an Internet video showing the bullying of a teenager with Down's Syndrome." The Italian government believes Google had a responsibility of the published video when it was placed on YouTube, one of their ...

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Italian Govt. Seeks Jail Time For Google Execs Google to Acquire Teracent, Makers of Algorithm-Generated Banners   —  Google announced they’re acquiring the company Teracent, which creates auto-learning/ self-adjusting image ads. “Teracent’s technology can pick and choose from literally thousands of creative elements of a display ad in real-time – tweaking images, products, messages or colors. These elements can be optimized depending on ...

Barry / Search Engine Roundtable
Banned Google AdWords Accounts Will Likely Never Be Unsuspended   —  As you know, Google has stepped up disabling and banning AdWords advertisers. The bans result in the advertiser not being able to set up new accounts and Google is stricter about who they ban. In fact, I am getting phone...

6. Now, Say Something Positive 9 hours ago   permalink

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Can you believe GMail is 5.59 years old? Google AdWords (Select), by contrast, is only a bit older at 7.76 years old. I'm sitting here looking at one email thread in GMail that has 41 messages in it over the past 15 days. Like a mini-Basecamp masquerading as an ordinary inbox. GMail has its quirks, but I don't let them derail me. As I am highly ...

7. When Is It Shouting? 9 hours ago   permalink

When Is It Shouting?
Andrew Goodman / Traffick

Google has always prided itself on its "unmarketing". Release products in beta, quietly. Don't buy mass advertising. Let people discover your offerings organically, through online discovery, word of mouth, and a little bit of presence at the key trade shows. But things seem to have changed. Has Google stepped up the urgency of their outbound ...

8. Affiliate Convention LA Next Week, Free Admission Open Til Friday 11 hours ago   permalink

Search Engine Watch Blog

Affiliate Convention starts next week in Los Angeles and if you act fast there is still the chance to get full access for free until Friday. WebmasterRadio.FM and AffEuro.com are bringing the second Affiliate Convention to the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles California on Thursday December 3rd and Friday 4th. Free registration for ...

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REGISTER EARLY AND SAVE! - AFFILIATE CONVENTION 2009   —  Note: Online Registration for the 2009 Affiliate Convention in Los Angeles ends on November 27, 2009. This also includes registration for FREE AFFILIATES. We must receive your application prior to November 27, 2009 in order to be approved to attend the event at no charge. We recommend that you register early for this event. Early registrations ...

9. Bing Hands Out 1,000 MasterCard Cash Cards at Boston and Seattle Airports 13 hours ago   permalink

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If you're traveling through Boston's Logan Airport (BOS) or Seattle-Tacoma Airport (SEA) today, you have the chance to be one of 1,000 lucky people randomly selected to get a MasterCard cash gift card worth $15. That's the price of checking luggage on some airlines. Bing is doing these random-acts-of-publicit y the day before you stuff your face ...

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A holiday treat from Bing Travel   —  Crowded airports, endless security lines, flight delays and long layovers: Traveling over the busy Thanksgiving weekend certainly isn’t any fun. A few months ago, we started considering ways we could help ease the burden of holiday travel and asked ourselves, “What’s something fun we could do to surprise fliers on the day before ...

10. Options for Newspapers in the New Media World Order 15 hours ago   permalink

Options for Newspapers in the New Media World Order
Frank Reed / Andy Beal

I have spent a considerable amount of time in the past year watching the decline and fall of the newspaper empire. At times I have had a ‘you get what you pay for’ take on the situation while at others I find it sad that an important industry is in a rapid downward spiral. Now [...]

11. Snagging Google Maps Reviews From Your Competitors 16 hours ago   permalink

Snagging Google Maps Reviews From Your Competitors
Barry / Search Engine Roundtable

A Google Maps Help thread has an interesting report of one business having the reviews of another. If you look at the Thomas French, DC, Chiropractor reviews, they look great, but when you look at Dr Keith Overland, it seems...

12. This Google toilet paper... 16 hours ago   permalink

This Google toilet paper...
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... is not official, but a copycat clone from Thailand, which a reader of the Funny Potato blog snapped. [Thanks Jonathan! Pic courtesy of Funny Potato.

13. So You Know Your Stuff... But You Still Don't Know Jack! 17 hours ago   permalink

So You Know Your Stuff... But You Still Don't Know Jack!
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by Stoney deGeyter One of the things I like to tell my clients when I'm trying to get them involved in the SEO process is that they know their business better than I do. This is true. What do I know about flow meters, motorcycle batteries, baby diapers, ski jackets or cost segregation? An argument can be made that as soon as I take on these ...

14. Iraqi Government on YouTube 22 hours ago   permalink

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Governments, heads of state, and leaders from around the world are on YouTube, including the Pope, the Royal Family, and Queen Rania, and presidents from the United States to France, South Korea to Estonia. Today we're especially pleased to announce that the Iraqi Government has launched a dedicated YouTube channel, at youtube.com/iraqigov. Learn ...

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15. SEOmoz 19 hours ago   permalink

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SEOmoz Matt and Evan made a bet at the SEOmoz PubCon party that if someone submitted a spam site at the site review panel that Matt would shave Evan's head. Well a spam site was submitted (the poor guy didn't realize), so OFF with Evan's hair!

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16. Two Simple Tactics to Improve Your Online Review Scores 19 hours ago   permalink

Two Simple Tactics to Improve Your Online Review Scores
Andy Beal / Andy Beal

In Radically Transparent, we talk about the importance of finding your “centers of influence.” This is particularly true when it comes to online review sites. Those that are unhappy with your products or services will find their way to an influential review site, without much difficulty. Those that love your service, tend to just ...