WebProNews » Resource Shelf http://www.webpronews.com Breaking News in Tech, Search, Social, & Business Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:07:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Wikia Schmikia: Try Out These Sites http://www.webpronews.com/wikia-schmikia-try-out-these-sites-2008-01 http://www.webpronews.com/wikia-schmikia-try-out-these-sites-2008-01#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:39:10 +0000 WebProNews Staff http://www.webpronews.com/?p=43003 Jimmy Wales and Wikia Search may be getting all the press this week, but there are resources out there you may not know.

The Wikipedia phenomenon has garnered global attention, with its community of contributors and editing policies for its encyclopedia of information. Much of the attention has lavished praise on the site, but detractors claim its flaws harm the site’s users.

Trust comes into play when it concerns information. While Wales has become a minor celebrity as Wikipedia grew, he’s no master librarian, and probably very few of the site’s contributors hold such credentials either.

This likely motivated Gary Price at Resource Shelf when he commented on the Wikia Search hubbub:

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]]> http://www.webpronews.com/wikia-schmikia-try-out-these-sites-2008-01/feed 0 Google Shuffles Lots Of Domains http://www.webpronews.com/google-shuffles-lots-of-domains-2007-11 http://www.webpronews.com/google-shuffles-lots-of-domains-2007-11#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:58:07 +0000 WebProNews Staff http://www.webpronews.com/?p=42092 The DNS admins had plenty to do at Google this week, with a lot of domain names being moved to Google’s servers.

What do techicage, logiquate, and macroslash all have in common, besides a .com suffix? They are all Google domains, entered nice and neatly on their name servers, according to Resource Shelf.

Industry observers tracking Google’s moves in the mobile phone space, particularly with regards to its Android software, will find so many Android domains that it looks like a Star Trek convention hacked Google’s DNS boxes.

Three domains pique our interest, besides the Android ones. Gtaxes.com, and net/org, have been registered. “The first one makes us wonder if an online tax prep service (look out TurboTax and Intuit?) might be another new service coming from Google?” said Resource Shelf.

Google also has googlesecret.com and googlebux.net among its newly-moved domains. How about GoogleBux as a currency for online transactions through Google Checkout? The US Treasury and its horde of IRS agents would love that.

As for GoogleSecret.com, cynical webmasters and SEOs probably think that describes Google’s usual, customary business practices well.

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