Business

Tension with Yelp Rises After Foursquare Adds Rating Feature

November 6, 2012
Foursquare 1-10 Rating

That’s it. The gloves are off. There’s no point trying to paint it with different colors or speculate otherwise. It’s there, open, apparent, clear and even with a bit of sneer. Foursquare has now fully steered into the local recommendations/ratings zone. Couple of weeks ago Foursquare unlocked its Explore engine……

Read more »

After Many Leaks, Google Considers Releasing Quality Rater Guidelines

November 2, 2012
Human Quality Raters

For the most part, Google’s search results are purely algorithmic without any human editorial touch. Except for cases where members of the search team are manually penalizing a website for violating Google’s guidelines (and recuperating if eligible), the rankings process is completely automatic. But Google also employs humans as “Quality……

Read more »

Pinterest’s Road to Glory Exhibits the Bright Side of Marketing

October 22, 2012
Pinterest Good vs Evil

Some marketers and SEOs presume that I’d deemed the whole Internet marketing industry as just a giant cobweb of deceive and manipulation, that I use my blogging paintbrush to generalize all Internet marketers as wrenched peddlers. But although I do cover scam-related topics, I’ve never come to this assessment, nor……

Read more »

Marketer/Novelist Donna Fontenot Legitimacy Enigma

October 15, 2012
Donna Fontenot

Donna D. Fontenot is an Internet marketer… and a striving novelist. That mixture of trades can yield quite a lethal concoction, if a one choose the path of the sinister. The Internet Marketing fraud subculture thrives from the creative scammers with the imaginatively mind which can ease the modus operandi……

Read more »

Facebook’s Game of Numbers and Chairs

October 5, 2012
Facebook is Just Chairs

Numbers. Sometimes they don’t mean anything and sometimes they mean everything. For some people, numbers are the best way to weigh something and for some people numbers are just confusing. Numbers are the essence of some professions and are a trifle part of others. Some numbers can’t be ignored. One……

Read more »

Microsoft/Bing and its “Independent Research Partner” Peculiar Connection

October 3, 2012
Microsoft plus Answers Research

Microsoft is frustrated from the whole search situation it got into… even with the search alliance (with Yahoo) and the many features it added to Bing over the years, the company still hasn’t managed to shatter Google’s search monopoly. This, in spite of Microsoft’s greatest efforts to persuade people that……

Read more »

VentureBeat, You Suck!

September 22, 2012
VentureBeat Suck

You gotta be fucking kidding me. It must be some sort of joke. A hoax maybe. Perhaps it is just a weird blogging trick. No, it can’t be real… it just can’t! But it look so genuine… like they actually meant it… could it be? Is it possible that they……

Read more »

Google+ 100M Active Users and Buys Snapseed, Blogosphere Still Dumb

September 18, 2012
Google+ Dumb and Dumber

When Google+ had been first introduced to the world in June 2011, I was pretty excited from the possibility that Facebook finally met a new worthy rival. But not so long afterwards, when some studies had shown pitiable usage stats, we all mocked the social networking service a bit. However,……

Read more »

FairSearch.org is Everything But Fair About Search

September 14, 2012
FairSearch.org Logo with Question Mark

FairSearch.org is seemingly a group which suppose to promote fair web search competition and to advocate the consumers’ best interests whenever it believes that “some” company is abusing its power. But that “some” company, which theoretically can be any search-related company, is in practice only one under the magnifying glass,……

Read more »