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Copyrightsensitive project aims to work with publishers upstaging Google
Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc is setting out to build a vast online library of copyrighted books that pleases publishers something rival Google Inc hasnt been able to achieve
The Open Content Alliance a project that Yahoo is backing with several other partners plans to provide digital versions of books academic papers video and audio Much of the material will consist of copyrighted material voluntarily submitted by publishers and authors said David Mandelbrot Yahoos vice president of search content...
Web ads creaming trad media as paid search booms
Two new studies show that online advertising is inexorably attracting budgets away from traditional media as broadband increases internet consumption while paidsearch looks search to overtake banner advertising
The first study from the Internet Advertising Bureau
the trade body for online advertising claims online advertising has now overtaken outdoor advertising reaching m in the first half of this year
While the whole advertising sector is only growing at 3 a year online ads are grew 623 over last year as advertisers appear to shift their budgets towards the Web...
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Often I review many different sites a week As part of that review I have some standard things I look at Does it have meta tags Are they unique on every page Does the site use a sitemap And so on In this article Im going to give you some of those things and some ideas on how to improve your site overall
Does your site have meta tags and are they unique
While this may sound like a nobrainer in fact youd be surprised how many sites either dont have meta tags in place or dont have unique tags in place...
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At the Googleplex a unique company culture was evolving To maximize the flexibility of the work space large rubber exercise balls were repurposed as highly mobile office chairs in an open environment free of cubicle walls While computers on the desktops were fully powered the desks themselves were wooden doors held up by pairs of sawhorses Lava lamps began sprouting like multihued mushrooms Large dogs roamed the halls among them Yoshka a massive but gentle Leonberger...
Virtual-Library Project Gives Google Company
Yahoo Inc the University of California and more than a half dozen other organizations launched on Monday a consortium dedicated to digitizing books and other materials from libraries archives and publishers an effort that would compete with a similar but controversial initiative by Google Inc
The Open Content Alliance differs from Google Print in that only works in the public domain or contributed by copyright holders would be stored in a network of databases maintained by the Internet Archive a nonprofit group in San Francisco Yahoo will run the search engine on the Web site...