News today that FTC regulatory overhauls are turning their attention to claims made about products online – specifically those made by bloggers and individuals on social networks. Basically, if someone who received a free sample of your product says something misleading or false about it, the blame for it being there is put on the [...]
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Media Co’s Want More Favorable Google Algorithm
March 23rd, 2009 2 Comments
If you can’t win, change the rules (or bitch until someone does it for you).
Major media companies are increasingly lobbying Google to elevate their expensive professional content within the search engine’s undifferentiated slush of results.
Many publishers resent the criteria Google uses to pick top results, starting with the original PageRank formula that depended on how [...]
Tags: fail · Google · Google sucks · political · search engine news · SEO News · traditional media
‘Frequently Bought With’ Fail
March 10th, 2009 1 Comment
Meet the Pocket Obama, also referred to in its Amazon.com product description as “the little blue book that right-wing conservatives love to hate.’
Also, apparently, the book that people with no sense of irony love to love. To publish a book of quotations and thoughts of a leader – especially one on the left, no matter how moderate [...]
Tags: amazon.com · fail · political · user experience
White House comes to Twitter for Economic Advice?
March 6th, 2009 1 Comment
As cool a product as Twitter has, is talking to a business that has no monetization other than venture capital funding about how to fix the economy really a good sign?
I think Evan Williams’ own tweet on the topic (as seen on Silicon Valley Insider) says it all:
Also, I didn’t mean for today to become [...]
Town considers changing name to rank better
March 2nd, 2009 No Comments
The town of Eu, France (population 8,000) is pissed that a silly little thing called the European Union managed to co-opt their town’s name in its typical shortening. Not so much because they disagree wit bloated bureaucracy and the insistence that all of these countries have enough in common to cleave to each other and [...]
Tags: fail · france · Google · Google sucks · political · political seo
