It was a very emotional day at Answers.com, as roughly 2/3 of the Jerusalem employees were let go. I was impressed by how people handled themselves. It was a day filled not with anger but with dark humor, nostalgia, friendship and support. TechCrunch covered this with Answers.com Gets Gutted By Its New Owner: Massive Layoffs, […]
” … the old South Indian Monkey Trap … depends on value rigidity for its effectiveness. The trap consists of a hollowed-out coconut chained to a stake. The coconut has some rice inside which can be grabbed through a small hole. The hole is big enough so that the monkey’s hand can go in, but […]
Excellent piece today by Danny Sullivan describing the different Google update types and Panda. Combining Danny’s post and some other posts, here’s a quick summary: Index updates: Once upon a time, Google updated their index about once a month, then with “everflux” they began refreshing their index pretty much daily, and now with Caffeine Google […]
Thanx to great Tweets, blog posts, and the incomparable Lisa Barone’s SMX coverage, here’s the Best of SMX Advanced 2011: Panda Matt Cutts: There’s a change coming related to scrapers outranking people for their own content that will be released soon. Panda is a site-based signal that will affect you based on where we think […]