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Yahoo Still Top Dog in News

December 31st, 2009

Google and Bing may be edging Yahoo out of the search market, but Yahoo is still the globe’s first stop for online news, according to Compete; this graph shows Yahoo clearly topping all competitors: Over the past five years, the main sites that people go to for news have remained the same: 2004: Yahoo News [...]

 
 

40% of Twitter is Completely Worthless?

August 13th, 2009

A recent study shows that quite a bit of the Tweets going out are pure garbage, from anyone’s point of view. Pear Analytics did a recent study of Twitter and found that the popular social network wasn’t quite as useful and important as some might think. Twitter has been espoused as the new social marketing [...]

 
 

Will Twitter for Food

July 1st, 2009

Twitter stepped up to the forefront once again as the much hailed way to publicize your business. by promoting a charitable act in your company name. @wholefoods is making a nice splash with the following: @WholeFoods – tomorrow, July 1st, is the monthly Twitter for Food event – it would be great for you to join in [...]

 
 

Newssift: The Up And Coming News Search Engine

March 26th, 2009

The innovative search engine, Newssift, has just been launched in beta by the Financial Times Group. This is a desperate attempt business users to search. Since it permits users to create definitive and specific queries to return highly relevant results, there is a good chance it will achieve its goal. Newssift is slanted towards business [...]

 
 

Don’t Link to Google News

September 21st, 2008

Linking to news stories has been a common practice for years, and since Google started running uncluttered versions in 2007, many thought it would be a great way to link out. Unfortunately, Google only keeps stories up for thirty days – which means after that your link is broken. This is one of the worst [...]