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Matt Cutts, a senior software engineer for Google, says that piling links onto a competitor's site to reduce its search rank isn't impossible, but it's extremely difficult."
I saw his last night its now on slashdot and search engine land.
I guess this is the official reason
In summary:
After taking a random sample of 600 Wikipedia articles, 96.67% are in Google's top 10 for their title.
I hate to do this, but this Friday I am closing Threadwatch. I don't think the site died at any specific point, it has been more of a process, which I will outline below:
Oh this is great shit. -- Google calls for more limits for Microsoft Enjoy the BS Full Story
More confusion about SEO, this time from NYT:
EBay said on Friday the where going to start placing ad's on Google, but that it would rely on other sources to a greater degree.
I don't even know where to start. MarketingExperiments recent article, "Harnessing Social Media - Web 2.0 Grows Up - Free Internet Traffic," has so many holes and is so off the mark, it makes me wonder if they've been sipping too much of grandpa's cough syrup over there.
rumours are a foot : http://internet.seekingalpha.com/article/39120 that Yahoo and Ebay are to merge.
The big thing here for Yahoo is that
a) they get a massive user base
b) Paypal