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How one company games Google News
Red Label News is not exactly a household name. But yesterday afternoon, it was one of the top news sources on Google News for stories about Apple’s iTunes song previews.
How’d that happen? Red Label News, it appears, is a cleverly designed collection of links and headlines meant to game Google News rankings.
CNET stumbled upon Red Label News after doing one of the most basic Google searches: the vanity search. In this case, we were attempting to figure out how many news outlets were writing about
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20021840-265.html#ixzz14MAAOd9i
Google Prepares to Launch Epic Broadband at Stanford
By James Mulroy, PCWorldOct 23, 2010 2:57 pm
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Tara Springett says…
The best anyone can offer to give people is an effective tool they can use to solve their problem themselves.
Martin Luther King, Jr. said…
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn’t get written because someone knocked on the door.
Helen Hayes said…
If you rest, you rust.
William Shakespeare said…
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em.
Anna Pavlova said…
To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.
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- Unicode over 60 percent of the web February 3, 2012Computers store every piece of text using a “character encoding,” which gives a number to each character. For example, the byte 61 stands for ‘a’ and 62 stands for ‘b’ in the ASCII encoding, which was launched in 1963. Before the web, computer systems were siloed, and there were hundreds of different encodings. Depending on the encoding, C1 could mean any of […]
- Mind the Gap: Encouraging women to study engineering February 2, 2012Women make up more than half the global population, but hold fewer than a third of the world’s engineering jobs. In the U.S., female students comprise fewer than 15 percent of all Advanced Placement computer science test takers. Even in high-tech Israel, few girls choose computer science. Not only is this a loss to companies like Google and everyone who bene […]
- Playbook for tackling the Super Bowl with Google February 1, 2012While thousands of lucky fans will brave the crowds at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Ind. to fill the coveted seats at this Sunday’s Super Bowl, many more in the U.S. will enjoy the game from home—in front of the TV, with mobile phones and tablets at the ready. As the New York Giants and New England Patriots prepare for kickoff, here are several way […]
- 2012 global award winners RISE to the top January 30, 2012Our business at Google is rooted in STEM and CS, so we’re passionate about supporting organizations that are expanding access to these fields, especially for students who might not have the opportunity otherwise. The annual Google Roots in Science and Engineering (RISE) program supports organizations running innovative STEM (science, technology, engineering […]