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A painful lesson for someone in the Googleplex
Google, which says it had no idea it was paying bloggers to promote its Chrome browser, is punishing itself for doing so. The search giant tells Danny Sullivan it will penalize the “pagerank” of www.google.com/chrome for “at least 60 days.” Google has blamed the pay-per-post campaign on ad network Unruly Media, but says “Google should be held to a higher standard, so we have taken stricter action than we would against a typical site.”
Google Lowers PageRank For Chrome After Pay Per Blog Campaign – Peter Kafka – News – AllThingsD
Continue reading: Google Lowers PageRank For Chrome After Pay Per Blog Campaign – Peter Kafka – News – AllThingsD
Oops…
Google appears to have paid bloggers to write about Chrome in a way that violates its own paid link policy, according to Search Engine Land. If Google applied a similar penalty to those it’s doled out to past violators, the Chrome download page would be removed from its search engine results for between a month and a year. Don’t bet on that happening, though. The campaign is another example of how Google’s diverse business can lead it to trip over itself.
Google May Have Violated Its Own Paid Link Policy With Chrome Promo Campaign | TechCrunch
Continue reading: Google May Have Violated Its Own Paid Link Policy With Chrome Promo Campaign | TechCrunch
Excerpt from a blogging reality check
The back-and-forth between bloggers resembles the informal chats, in university hallways and coffee rooms, that have always stimulated economic research, argues Paul Krugman, a Nobel-prizewinning economist who blogs at the New York Times. But moving the conversation online means that far more people can take part. Admittedly, for every lost prophet there is a crank who is simply lost. Yet despite the low barriers to entry, blogs do impose some intellectual standards. Errors of fact or logic are spotted, ridiculed and corrected. Areas of disagreement are highlighted and sometimes even narrowed. Some of the best contributors do not even have blogs of their own, serving instead as referees, leaving thoughtful comments on other… Continue reading: Economics blogs: A less dismal debate | The Economist
Not a Currents fan…
You could also call it the sterilization of the social web. Just like today’s new Twitter redesign makes things nice and pretty for non-technical users – Google Currents is infinitely friendlier and more accessible than any RSS reader – even Google’s own Reader. Unfortunately, in the current application that ease of use comes at a great cost: Google Currents does away with many of the best parts of the social web. It sings a catchy tune, but there’s far less life inside the experience. It’s not just a bummer, either – it’s a threat to what’s great about blogging.
Google Currents is to Social Media as Justin Bieber is to the… Continue reading: Google Currents is to Social Media as Justin Bieber is to the Beatles [ReadWriteWeb]
Facebook officially kills a syndication feature that, at least in my limited experience, didn’t work well anyway. If this is representative of Facebook’s strategy, and if Google does a reasonable job of integrating Blogger and Google+, my blog will eventually migrate to Google+
Until the upcoming kill date, Facebook users have been able to automatically import content from their website or blog. This was achieved by going to the Notes app, clicking on the Notes Settings option, choosing Import a Blog, entering the appropriate URL, and clicking on Start Importing.
So, what’s the alternative? There really isn’t one, according to the following Facebook Help Center entry: “My blog isn’t importing to… Continue reading: Facebook to kill RSS support for Notes | ZDNet
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