Opt-Out Provision and Web Tracking
Article by TANZINA VEGA of the NY Times Last Thursday federal regulators, members of advertising trade groups and technology companies gathered in Washington to announce new initiatives to protect consumers’ privacy online. But, as it turns out, privacy is in the eye of the beholder. The Obama administration has pushed hard for a privacy bill […]
Read MoreFailed Google Projects
After hearing about Google acquiring PostRank, we went ahead and started to count the Google blunders or failures that we could remember. We love Google and there isn’t any question on the success of Google and its Search; if there was ever a champion for Web 1.0, Google would be the one. However after dominating […]
Read MoreContent Management System Distributions
A content management system (also known as “CMS”) provides structured and management features for your content. Here are some examples: the ability to store news documents, images, video, etc. They are used for websites that normally have multiple editors or sections and are used as the basic foundation for many large websites. Distribution is calculated […]
Read MoreGoogle Bad Link Notification
In January 2011, Google began sending out “spam notifications” that your site has been penalized because of selling links. Now there are reports that Google is notifying webmasters that they have bad links pointing to their web site, as opposed to bad links on their web site pointing outwards. Here is a sample of the […]
Read MoreAdobe Releases Flash-to-HTML Converter “Wallaby”
Apple’s strength has been shown once again when Adobe gave into what many have stated as “the inevitable.” Adobe released a free tool that will convert Flash files to HTML5 so that they can run on Apple devices like the iPad and iPhone, as well as other Flash unsupported devices. This tool will help advertisers […]
Read MoreUpdate Your WordPress for Google
Now would be a good time to update your WordPress website. Google has now began sending out warning messages to update older WordPress websites. Keep in mind, this is not the warning you get when you open the WordPress CMS (“dashboard”), but rather it is a warning notification from Google. The notification informs those who […]
Read MoreGoogle vs Bing vs Yahoo
*Source: The Nielsen Company In August of 2010, Bing overtook Yahoo! as the number 2 largest search provider. Keep in mind, websites concentrating on Google only are only focusing on roughly 65% of the search engine market. Although Google remained the top search site, accounting for over three out of five searches (about 65.1%); when […]
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