As aggregation and licensing grows with content providers online, there are some questions around how Google handles duplicate content across domains. The article reviews the following: What is duplicate content? What isn’t duplicate content? Why does Google care about duplicate content? What does Google do about it? 10 ways to proactively address duplicate content issues.
Dealing With Duplicate Content in an Age of Aggregation & Licensing
As aggregation and licensing grows with content providers online, there are some questions around how Google handles duplicate content across domains. The article reviews the following: What is duplicate content? What isn’t duplicate content? Why does Google care about duplicate content? What does Google do about it? 10 ways to proactively address duplicate content issues.
2007: A Look Ahead
Read/Write Web has their 2007 Web Predictions. Some highlights: RSS will go mainstream in a big way. The use of widgets will grow. Web Office continues to ramp up. Rich Internet Apps will be a major force in 2007. Semantic Web products will come of age in 2007. Expect some shakeups in the online advertising… Continue reading 2007: A Look Ahead
Conde Nast Steps into Social Media
The Wall Street Journal looks at Conde Nast’s development of a social networking site to rival MySpace. What I like about the article, is its subtlety: “With readers migrating to the Web in droves, all magazines are under tremendous pressure to come up with Internet strategies, or face oblivion.” But it gets better. Conde Nast… Continue reading Conde Nast Steps into Social Media
News Search vs. Web Search
Search Engine Watch takes a look at Google’s list of top searches in 2006, as well as Yahoo’s. One key finding is that news searches and general web searches differed greatly. Two possible reasons: Demographics and/or psychographics. Situational intent. However, they do reach a valuable conclusion for journalists and media companies: “If you are looking… Continue reading News Search vs. Web Search
Integrating Video Content
Andy Dickinson offers some tips for newspaper websites when adding video content to their arsenal. He suggests: Start small. Bulletins… start your video content with a short bulletin or news round-up. Keep it short. Link content. That last tip is crucial. I see so many sites create new areas for multimedia that are so separate… Continue reading Integrating Video Content
Digg Evolves with New Features, but the Same Old Problems
Digg.com has rolled out some new features this week: Interface Design, Digg Goes Widescreen Top 10 Stories/Videos Videos Enhancements Podcasting Profile Enhancements However, they continue to find the balance between being open to a user-generated content website, and being a gatekeeper: “Digg continues to crack down on users who plant phony stories on behalf of… Continue reading Digg Evolves with New Features, but the Same Old Problems
Online Photo Editing
I just thought this was a great overview of online photo editing tools. Don’t have Photoshop? No problem, these tools can get the job done online. More can be found here.
Users Generate Content, Top Websites Cash In
Nick Carr comments on a recent report about the increasing reach of the top 10 websites. “Despite the explosion of web content, spurred in large part by the reduction in the cost of producing and consuming that content, web traffic appears to be growing more concentrated in a few sites, not less.” “What’s being concentrated,… Continue reading Users Generate Content, Top Websites Cash In
Evolution of Search and Media
Ask.com is trying out a new design and functionality for search results, with greater integration of information and media types. The three elements of the design are: Left: A search control panel that stays with you, complete with Zoom Related Search and Search Suggestions that update as you type. Middle: Results front and center to… Continue reading Evolution of Search and Media