Why Apple Should License Typo Data to Bing
There are three big typo databases in the world: The collective algorithmic typo database. There are a few standard typos (transposition, off-by-one, omitted letter, etc.), which are generally...
View ArticleA Yahoo update, Bing in depth, and Reddit’s escape velocity
Yahoo Update As has been reported at length, Yahoo’s board fired the company’s CEO, who fired back with an infamous email and a furious interview with Fortune. Yahoo’s board is now rumored to be...
View ArticlePanda 2.5, parsing Zynga, and Innovation Starvation
Google Rolls Out Panda 2.5 SearchMetrics has the usual victim list. At this point, the results are pretty random. Google is probably identifying sitewide factors based on what predicts user behavior...
View ArticleShowrooming: The Future of Retail
Amazon.com recently offered customers a “Brick-and-Moral dilemma” through their price-check app, which offers shoppers quick discounts if they scan a barcode and find what they’re buying on Amazon for...
View ArticleMore infographic victims, simplifying the Lumascape, and a new way to trade...
Google Updates Danny Sullivan has much more information on the “Don’t be Evil” tool. He actually makes a pretty good case for the bookmarklet as a genuinely useful piece of software: if it weren’t for...
View ArticleLinkedIn undercuts Google, Office for iPad, and better journalism through...
Why Office for the iPad Makes Sense The Daily claims—with screenshots to prove it!—that Microsoft Office is coming to the iPad. Dan Frommer reasonably points out that this would be a smart way for...
View ArticleDivesting Rent.com, texting among teens, and the unimportance of validated ads
Which Sites Dominate Search Rankings? SpyFu has some amazing stats on which sites most frequently show up in top Google rankings. The usual suspects are well-represented: Amazon owns product searches,...
View ArticleBankRate’s smart buy, Groupon’s earnings miss, and who wants privacy laws,...
Facebook Updates Facebook now offers ads optimized for “Objectives” such as likes, installs, or ad clicks. That should bump up the low bids, raising the effective CPMs for their pages. It’s unclear how...
View ArticlePlus VCs as lobbyists, what Groupon does to Yelp ratings, and why ads should...
VCs as Lobbyists One symptom of founders getting stronger relative to VCs is that VCs have been forced to expand their repertoire. YCombinator has an in-house designer, Sequoia has an in-house PR...
View ArticleComcast violates net neutrality, cell phone penetration, and 9GAG’s...
Automating the Herd Mentality Investing social network Roboinvest now allows users to copy one another’s trades with a single click. They’ve prudently limited this to small dollar values, but it’s...
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