SearchDay January 31, 2011 | | | Today's Top Stories | | RSS | Advertisement | | | | More from SEW's Team of Experts | Google's Social Acquisitions - SayNow is the Latest Conquest Last week, Google announced two more acquisitions of companies into their collective. SayNow, a voice/telephone service was announced first. The very net day, YouTube, one of Google's many properties, announced the acquisition of fflick, a 6-month-old startup that used sentiment analysis to recommend movies to people. Both of these companies ... Thom Craverhttp://thom.cravers.us | Full story | Jan 31, 2011
Who Is Duncan Watts and Why Is Everything Obvious ... Once You Know the Answer? The keynote speaker at SES New York 2011 is Duncan Watts, a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research, where he directs the Human Social Dynamics group. He's also the author of the forthcoming book, Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer. ... Greg Jarboe | Full story | Jan 31, 2011
Quora Review: Too Confusing To Survive? The question-and-answer space seems to be gathering some momentum despite Google's recent address about "content farms" and the latest popular Q&A site within the search industry is Quora. With $86 million in venture capital raised in March last year and a surge of ... Frank Watson | Full story | Jan 31, 2011
Android + Classic PlayStation Games? Sweet! Sony has announced plans to bring classic PlayStation 1 games to Android phones and tablets before the end of 2011. Users will be able to download the classic games via a new PlayStation Store, which is part of Sony's PlayStation Suite mobile gaming platform. ... Danny Goodwin | Full story | Jan 30, 2011
Search Week in Review for Jan. 29, 2011 Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Jan. 23 to 29, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web. Search Engine Optimization Designing an SEO Friendly URL Structure ... Danny Goodwin | Full story | Jan 30, 2011
D.C. Gets a Street View of New Anti-Google Video Consumer Watchdog is at it again. In the new video "Mr. Schmidt Goes to Washington," the group demands Eric Schmidt be called before Congress for hearings about the data Google collected with its Street View mapping service cars. The group has gone as ... Danny Goodwin | Full story | Jan 29, 2011
Facebook 'Sponsored Stories' Invasion of Privacy? Facebook has come under some criticism over the past two years for using user information in advertising - ads containing users' pictures, selling of information, and now their newly launched "Sponsored Stories:. "Your clicks of Facebook's "Like" button and check-ins at restaurants, stores and other establishments are already valuable marketing material. ... Frank Watson | Full story | Jan 29, 2011
Google's War on Spam Begins: New Algorithm Live Google's Matt Cutts today announced the launch of a new algorithm that is intended to better detect and reduce spam in Google's search results and lower the rankings of scraper sites and sites with little original content. Google's main target is content farms and sites that copy content from other ... Danny Goodwin | Full story | Jan 29, 2011
| | Recent Forum Posts | SEO Service Now will take new Turn Algorithm change launched http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/algorithm-change-launched/ Matt Cutts New Post Join the discussion | Jan 31, 2011
Does the host count? Hello mates, Just curious to know whether the host counts in Google rankings? I want to buy a host from UK but I need to score high in Google.com Will the host make me score higher in Google.co.uk and lower in Google.com ? Join the discussion | Jan 30, 2011
recent PR update? Is there anything to this (http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/28662836792135680) as of yet? From what I can tell, no update has occurred. - But I would expect it at any time now, given the messenger. Join the discussion | Jan 29, 2011
Using same shopping cart (buying) pages on multiple sites - SEO damage? Would search engines look on websites less favourable if they had lots of unique content (no duplication of content), were structured differently, and hosted on different C Class servers, but all fed through to the same shopping cart pages when somebody bought item(s)? How significant, if any, of a negative ... Join the discussion | Jan 27, 2011
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