MySpace, Weather Channel Make Friends
When I’m feeling surrounded by bad sitcoms, stupid movies, and unimportant news, I can (assuming I don’t grab a book or turn to my computer) count on The Weather Channel to provide me with a reliable viewing experience. And now MySpace users can count on a sort of online equivalent. According to a press release, [...]
Google’s Game-Related Shame Deepens
A few weeks ago, we were able to run the headline “Yahoo Better Than Google At Unimportant Games.” Consider this a follow-up, only, to Mountain View’s dismay, you can substitute “Facebook” for “Yahoo” and leave everything else the same. Google’s Game-Related Shame Deepens First it was slot car racing and cricket; now it’s ultimate frisbee [...]
Yahoo Eats Up Attention From The Onion
It could be an act of misdirection – “here, watch the funny man while we fire you one by one!” – but things nonetheless took a lighthearted turn at Yahoo when Peter Koechley, Managing Editor of The Onion, came to visit. If you don’t know what The Onion is, tough shallots – I’m prepared to [...]
Yahoo Better Than Google At Unimportant Games
This article has nothing to do with market share, revenue, or even brand recognition. But in search-related news, Yahoo representatives beat Google in both slot car racing and cricket. Yahoo Better Than Google At Unimportant Games Andrew Cocker (of Yahoo UK & Ireland) went to the trouble of writing a Yodel Anecdotal post about that [...]
Where Mainstream Fails, YouTube Delivers Dick
It’s not exactly a stretch to say the White House has public relations issues. For the most part, though, footage that could be held against them has been dug up by the Daily Show more than the mainstream media. And then came YouTube. What you might call a fringe group – global conspiracy prophets are [...]
Google Public Policy Blog Touches On Carhenge
Google’s Public Policy Blog has been home to discussions about censorship, net neutrality, and national security. Now it’s promoting Carhenge, Nebraska’s “whimsical recreation” of England’s famous stone ruins. Ah, well. “All work and no play . . .” It’s not quite as simple as that, however – Google is highlighting the (admittedly unusual) work of [...]
Google’s Supplemental Index Continues To Grow
Reports are surfacing throughout the blogosphere concerning the ever-growing recesses of Google’s supplemental results. Now more than ever, sites that were once highly ranked in the main index are beginning to find themselves in the confines of the supplemental index. Some have likened Google’s supplemental index to a virtual refuse pile, an online prison where [...]
Society and Culture: Anne Frank, A Young Girl With a Vision
“When you let beauty and peace sink into you, dissension and strife begin to look like sheer insanity. Everything that people make a fuss about, becomes unimportant.”So said a character in a… More: continued here society and culture anne frank a young girl with a vision
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