Once again, regulators are standing in the way of long planned Google deal. For once however, the obstacle isn’t US based. Now the Russians are getting in on the act too – blocking the company’s $140 million dollar acquisition of Zao Begun, a local business selling advertising across text, search and contextual video. The Business is one of several in the stable of Russian corporation, Rambler Media along with numerous websites and a search engine.
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Crawling with Spiders:

Search engines will be using their ability to crawl to give you a ranking. You have to make sure that the spiders crawling around on the web will actually net you the best ranking you can get. To do this you need to make sure that certain things don’t occur on your page. The spider will download your pages and then navigate through them. If the spider can’t crawl they will definitely leave your site and rank you low. (more…)

Bill Gates, one of the Godfathers of computer technology, has taken a step back into the commercial world with new company, bgC3.
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For a website to be search engine friendly, you have to consider three important factors. Number one, creating content for the site must be done in an easy to crawl and index manner. Number two, you need to have links to your site that are helpful to gain the PageRank you need. Number three, the keywords used and the placement of them will affect your ranking. (more…)

In the early hours of this morning (our time) a little piece of tech history was made when the T-Mobile G1 went on sale in a San Francisco T-Mobile store. The G1 is the first mobile phone to use the Android platform devised by Google and its partners to revolutionise mobile phone handsets and what they can do.
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Time and Digg

It takes time to get yourself up there on the front page. Sometimes what you try will not work. This doesn’t mean you should just give up. You need to continue to try and make it to the front page. If getting to the top requires changing the topic or your submissions, then do it. You need to know that sometimes the front page is chosen randomly. This means that there is a popular story out there that Digg thinks should be on the front. You need to be able to manipulate the system, but you won’t always have success. (more…)

It’s not as if there was ever any doubt about who Google CEO, Eric Schmidt was supporting in the US election. He’s been an unofficial supporter of, and advisor to, Senator Obama on tech and, strangely to some, clean energy issues for months now. However Schmidt’s, and tacitly Google’s support for the Senator took a more serious turn yesterday with the announcement that Schmidt would be joining Obama for the final hectic weeks of the campaign.
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SEO and Spam

There is a very important rule to the Digg site. You can’t be a spammer. A spammer would be someone miss using Digg. In fact a lot of the search engine optimisation blogs have already been taken off of Digg because of the spam qualities they offer. You can’t use Digg for your stories just to gain a place to sell your goods or promote your site. You can certainly offer the site information and a little about it, but Digg is more about friends. So any posts you make regarding Digg should be news worthy. They need to be interesting and important. (more…)

When the internet first started to establish itself as a force to reckoned with in mainstream culture a number of social commentators decried it as the beginning of the end for families and community, fearing that social ties would be eroded by the culture of staying in and logging on. However, according to a study conducted by the Pew Internet Group, it would appear that those naysayers were wrong. Technology and the internet is actually helping to maintain social connections within society.

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So how do you get the Diggs you need? Well it is actually fairly easy. You need to use your friends feature. Each of the social networking sites will allow you to find friends, family, and coworkers that use Digg. If you can let these individuals know that you are posting and have them read your information as soon as possible you can get to the front page. Chances are they will want to see what you are up to. You don’t just have to use people you know. In fact you can search out friends on Digg. (more…)

Gaining Friends

To get yourself the links you need you need a certain number of Digg stories. The more content you publish the better off you are at getting the links, so for the first 24 hours starting on Digg you should have 60 articles submitted. This will help you hit the front page. The articles don’t all have to be the same. In fact they can be any category that will somehow apply to your actual site. (more…)

Did you wonder what the Queen’s head was doing on the Google logo when you logged on last Thursday? Apparently it was in honour of a visit to Google’s UK headquarters, where the Queen personally uploaded archive video of a 1969 Buckingham Palace reception to her own YouTube channel, ‘the Royal Channel.’ The channel was launched last December and currently boasts 54 individual videos.
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Google appears to have shaken off the economic downturn by posting third-quarter profits of 1.35 billion, up 26 per cent. The news couldn’t have come at a better time, with shareholders across the sector worrying about companies cutting their advertising budgets – a traditional response to a flailing economy.
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On Digg you should forget about selling anything. Instead you need to think about other things. For example few of the 10,000 people who see your front page on Digg will be interested in finding out further information. In fact about 100 people may actually link to you out of that larger number. (more…)