Opera Software has recently released their last report for the year 2011, ranking the 10 most popular websites on mobile.
Cancer Charity To Correct Wikipedia Information
Wikipedia is known to be one of the most informative sites on a wide range of subjects, it has severe limitations and drawbacks. One of the major drawbacks of this site is that anyone can contribute to it on any topic. Due to this, the information is often incomplete or even incorrect. This can be especially dangerous, when someone is searching for information on a serious topic … Read More →
Social Media Sites Not Regarded Highly
Foresee Results and the American Customer Satisfaction Index, have recently conducted a study to find out how customers in the U.S. feel about various social media sites.
Is Wikipedia Dying Like DMOZ Did?
Wikipedia’s amazing growth rate seems to have taken a sudden downturn. Scientists at the Palo Alto Research Center have found that the reason behind this seems to be similar to the problem that brought down the once popular DMOZ directory.
Should Wikipedia Introduce Flagged Revisions?
The recent appearance of false reports on Wikipedia about the deaths of U.S. senators Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd during the inaugural lunch has started a serious debate on whether or not edits by unknown users should be edited by trusted editors.
Wikipedia Censorship Annoys Users
The majority of Internet service providers in the U.K. have blocked a page on Wikipedia that showed a picture of a nude teenage girl.
Twitter On Top Of Mumbai Terrror Attack News
Even as the terrible attacks that are taking place in the financial capital of India, Mumbai (Bombay) started to unfold, users of Twitter in India started using the micro-blogging service to discuss the events as they happened. Other users wasted no time uploading pictures from the scenes of terror to their Flickr accounts.
Microsoft Live Search Gets Semantic Query Processing
Microsoft has now integrated Powerset into the Live Search platform, since last month. The Redmond-based software giant is believed to have paid $100 million for Powerset’s semantic search capabilities in an attempt to improve their position in the search engine market after the failed attempt to acquire Yahoo! earlier in the year.
Google To Spread Knowledge Through Knols
Google launched project Knol last week. A Knol, according to Google, is a unit of knowledge. Knols are articles on any given subject, written by someone who is an expert on that subject. Google Knol is destined to be compared with and perhaps compete against Wikipedia.
Google and Wikipedia Off Limits For Brighton Uni Students
In this day and age, it is astounding to read that a lecturer, Prof. Tara Brabazon, from the university of Brighton, has banned her students from using websites such as Google and Wikipedia to conduct their research.
Google’s New Project, Knol, Takes On Wikipedia
Knol is the latest project undertaken by Google. Based on the lines of Wikipedia, Hubpages and Squidoo, it is being viewed as Google’s way of capitalising on Wikipedia’s original idea of a user-generated information hub and at the same time stopping its traffic from flowing into Wikipedia.
SEO Tip: Links From Wikipedia Images
Lise Broer (a.k.a. Durova), a Wikipedia administrator, has written an article on Search Engine Land about how optimisers can get viral links from Wikipedia by uploading relevant images for use as illustrations alongside an article.
Reliability of Wikipedia Information Questionable
Ryan Jordan, a 24-year old college student from Kentucky used the nickname Essjay on Wikipedia. In his profile he posed as professor of religion at a private university and in this capacity he edited articles and was given the authority to arbitrate disputes between authors and remove site vandalism.
Wikipedia site using NOFOLLOW attribute
Wikipedia officially announced that in order to combat the rise in spam entries on their site, they will make place the NOFOLLOW attirbute
