The mailbag is a three-trick pony this last week of the year: A bit on Vista vs. XP, a slightly longer bit on Knol vs. Wikipedia, and a big chunk of discussion on digital and copying rights (and the lack thereof).
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As this will (almost) undoubtedly be my the last post of 2007, I’ll just take a moment to say Happy New Year and thank you to all for reading ParisLemon. I won’t get into all the statistics, but suffice it to say that its been a good year, traffic-wise, citation-wise, etc… Here’s a major one on my end: Posts in 2007: 1,021 Posts in 2006: 267 One thing that’s been very kind this year has been the Google search results. Here are some of my favorite keywords/phrases that brought people to Pari
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It’s the end of the year and we here at 10e20 have a tradition of sharing our top stories in search and social media. This year is no exception. Without further ado, here are the top 50 stories in search. 50. Twitter microblogging tool goes mainstream (November/December) 49. Alibaba goes IPO (10/29) 48. Server downtime plagues Yahoo Stores on Cyber Monday (11/26) 47. Bodog online casino domain name frozen (8/28) 46. Porn.com sells for $9 million (5/15) 45. Jason Calacanis launches Mahal
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: December 2007: Search Engine Land’s Most Popular Stories Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from December 2007:… Search Month: December 2007 Search News, In Review Search Month is a monthly newsletter that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past month. It’s also available by feed here. Below, news about Search Eng
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Gary Price reports Google has applied to trademark several terms this year, including Knol, Android, OpenSocial, Open Handset Alliance, Panoramio, Dalvik, and more. These trademark applications are common for companies wanting to protect their new product releases.
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January 01, 2008 marks the beginning of a new year and it is the day on which Sizlopedia.com celebrates its first birthday. Exact 1 year ago Sizlopedia.com came into being. I started this blog as a platform to share my interests and knowledge. The blog now primarily focuses on topics such as Blogging, Technology, Gadgets, Windows, Google, Tips and Tricks and Making Money Online ventures. I have discovered a whole new world in the year 2007 and look forward to discover more of it in the coming
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Daily Search Coverage: Ask having crawling issues with some URLs? Google short changes Australians. Does blocking a country from accessing your site put you at risk with Google? Are link reports ordered by page importance? Matt Cutts and paid links get into a huge fight, kind of. Amit is featured on the Google AdSense blog. Sphinn’s heros! Yahoo’s Souders is joining Google. Google trademarks a bunch of words. Baidu’s CFO dies in an accident. Search Engine Roundtable Topics: Ask.com Cra
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Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog team It’s that time again, the end of a year - time to tote up Google’s blogging activity for the last 365 days. First, a few bits of data about this particular blog: Number of posts this year: 300New product announcements: 15 (not counting our April 1 release)News about upgrades and additions to products: 87Announcing products in more languages and countries: 30Acquisitions: 12Unique visitors: 6,738,830 (for 8,655,830 visits)Languages: 511 (preferred languag
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Online professional independent publishers rejoyce! 2008 promises to be a year of great innovation for everyone publishing online as opportunities to expand or start your own micro publishing company will only increase. New powerful publishing and content distribution tools will make their debut in 2008 while some of the existing technologies and services will greatly refine, consolidate and expand their present offerings. Change is the name of the game, meaning that in as much as you can’t fol
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There’s a new kid on the online block named Knol and even this early in the development stage, some people are already predicting that it could bring about yet another significant change to the way we share information on the Internet. Knol is a new Web service being developed by Google that is meant to serve as a virtual storehouse of knowledge on the Internet. With content being contributed by various experts on different topics, it will behave much in the same way that Wikipedia does curre
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