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Researchers Question Yahoo Answers

Stanford University researchers analyzed 10 months worth of content from Yahoo's popular Answers service to learn about the people using it and where it might go in the future.

Selling Paid Links Can Hamper Your Google Rankings

Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land points out that "Selling paid links can hurt your page rank or rankings on Google". He says, "More and more, I've been seeing people wondering if they've lost traffic on Google because they were detected to be selling paid links."

Stanford's Facebook App Development Group

Today I noticed that a couple of my Facebook friends joined the group: Creating New Apps for Facebook (New Stanford Course).

CEO: Google Is Like Your Ex - Cute, But Insane

Well, he didn't put it exactly like that, but Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer didn't pull any punches in regard to Google during an appearance in front of 450 Stanford University business and engineering students yesterday. In addition to calling Google's employee growth-rate "insane," and its non-search products "cute," Ballmer implied Google was a one-trick pony. (And we'll have some class and not mention the shellacking Stanford took in the NCAA tournament by Louisville. Oops, guess we just kind of did.)

Stanford Says You're Hooked On The Net

Internet addiction used to be a joking matter, but it has reached a point where the reality of too much WWW has lead some to busted relationships, job losses, and other bad side effects.

Yahoo Gift Horse Looked In Mouth

Yahoo recently donated $1 million to Stanford University's Knight Fellowship program "to support press freedom." While that might seem like an innocent gesture, it's created a bit of a stir. Some people view it "as an act of atonement," but others "worried the money came from a tainted source."

Stanford Daily At It Again

I'm just going to shake my head in shame. The Stanford Daily was caught 10 months ago spamming the web with fake articles designed to generate Google juice.

Stanford: SEMs Are Getting Screwed

Search engine marketers that don't know what they're doing are getting ripped off in keyword auctions, according to a new study released from Stanford Graduate School of Business. The researchers claim pay-per-click engines like Google and Yahoo! have modified an older bidding model to maximize profits.

Stanford Embraced Podcasting

Stanford University has embraced podcasting in a big way. The University where Google's founders hammered out their code has loaded more than 400 audio files into a special portal in the iTunes Music Store, accessible through a page on the University's own website.

Stanford Debates Yahoo Music

The Graduate Student Council at Stanford recently discussed the benefits and perils of having the Yahoo Music service available on campus.