The SEO world is full of speculation, conjecture and educated best guesses. It's not surprising then, that the average webmaster/site owner can find the whole business of SEO overwhelming and intimidating.
Google and DSpace have embarked on a pilot program designed to allow universities to better manage their intellectual output. DSpace is an open source repository system co-developed by MIT and Hewlett-Packard that allows universities to manage, store, and distribute their intellectual property in a digital format.
The BBC has tentative plans to launch it's own search engine designed to compete with major search entities like Google and Yahoo!. The BBC's new media director Ashley Highfield tells a British publication that the BBC has its eye set on the search engine industry. Given that the current search landscape is currently dominated by American properties, the BBC believes that a new search engine -with a British twist, could successfully enter the foray and provide a desirable alternative to its American counterparts.
Microsoft has been awarded nearly $4 million in the company's latest legal victory against spam. In a summary judgment against Daniel Khoshnood of Canoga Park, California, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruled in favor of Microsoft.
Earlier this week in WebProWorld, Rich made a post concerning research recently released by AtlasDMT. The goal of the study was to provide some metrics on the actual impact and value of paid placement listings by their rank or position. While most would rightly expect that a higher positioned placement would outperform a lower position, the results of the AtlasDMT research yielded some fairly surprising results as to the slope of the drop-off from the number one spots.
Google Inc. acquired Picasa Inc. today. Picasa is a California based company founded in 2001 specializing in digital photography.
A study of some 37,000 Yahoo! Mail users in 11 different countries has apparently confirmed what many Internet users have long suspected (and despaired): spam email is working. Despite the fact that spam email is almost universally reviled as a nuisance, there are apparently enough people clicking to justify the industry - or perpetuate the problem, depending on your point of view.
Though the real NFL season is still several weeks away, it apparently isn't too early to start thinking about Fantasy Football leagues. Early out of the gate this year is last year's fantasy king, Yahoo! Sports with their latest edition of the popular game.
Microsoft employee Laurent Chavet was arrested last week on allegations that he had illegaly accessed former employer AltaVista's computer system.
Last week in our WebProWorld forums, one of our moderators Bill Hartzer made what I thought was an interesting post about promoting your site without search engines. Bill's post basically consisted of a question as to what methods existed -aside from search engines- for promoting your site.
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