September 2009
143 posts
Confirmed: Twitter is Saving All Your Tweets,... →
Forest fires in California, the plane landing on the Hudson river, the Mumbai hotel attacks - these historical events and many more have been recorded by everyday people on the ground, using Twitter. The historic record may be much, much richer as a result - but you can’t access it through search.twitter.com right now.
Scrubbed geolocation data after two weeks and no way to access...
Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web... →
Q: Why doesn’t Google use the keywords meta tag?
A: About a decade ago, search engines judged pages only on the content of web pages, not any so-called “off-page” factors such as the links pointing to a web page. In those days, keyword meta tags quickly became an area where someone could stuff often-irrelevant keywords without typical visitors ever seeing those keywords. Because...
10 People You Won’t See on Twitter Anymore
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10 People You Won’t See on Twitter Anymore
Posted by Jennifer Van Grove on Sunday Sep 13th at 11:14am
This week Twitter announced changes to its Terms of Service spelling out that you own your Tweets, and that Twitter can place ads next to your content. What’s more, Twitter wants to crack down on spammers, bots and other bad behavior.
The refreshed Twitter Rules that are...
A Really Nasty Ad Slips Past Google →
Generally you can trust the ads on Google to at least be safe. But that’s not the case right now for the top ad being served on the query “Firefox.”
The top ad says it is linking to “Firefox ® OfficiaI Sitе” at the URL www.mozilla.com/firefox/. And that is indeed the official Mozilla Firefox site. But the link actually goes to the much more sinister firefox.mozilla-now.com, a site that...
