Google Publishes 5 Privacy Principles
Posted on January 30, 2010
In honor of yesterday’s International Data Privacy Day, Google published its five privacy principles. They are:
Use information to provide our users with valuable products and services. Search history informs personalized search, but users can opt-out.
Develop products that reflect strong privacy standards and practices. For example, you can chat on Google Talk “off the record” so [...]
Delicious Updates Viewing Options; Adds StumbleUpon-Like Feature
Posted on January 30, 2010
Social bookmarking site Delicious has updated the ability to filter viewing options – plus added a new way to browse your bookmarks that is very StumbleUpon-like.
First up, there’s a new display options menu tucked into the top right corner of your bookmarks display. This is for when you’re viewing “My Bookmarks” – not on [...]
Request visitors’ permission before installing software
Posted on January 29, 2010
(Cross-posted on the Google Korea Blog)
Webmaster Level: All
Legitimate websites may require that their visitors install software. These sites often do so to provide their users with additional functionality beyond what’s available in standard web browsers, like viewing a special type of document. Please note, however, that if your site requires specific software for your visitors, [...]
Bing Launches New U.S. Stocks and Funds Feature
Posted on January 29, 2010
Bing is making it easier for you to keep up with your portfolio and the U.S. stock market. Their new stocks and funds pages offer in-depth data on most U.S. stocks. The pages include an Instant Answer snapshot of what’s going on for a stock at the time you search.
Let’s see how Apple’s stock is [...]
Search engine marketing tips from Matt Van Wagner of Lobster.com
Posted on January 29, 2010
Image by SESConferenceSeries via Flickr
As SES Chicago 2009, I asked Matt Van Wagner of Lobster.com to share some of his tastiest search engine marketing tips. (Pun intended.)
I should disclose that I was born in California and raised in Michigan. So, when I moved to Massachusetts, I had to learn how to pronounce “lobster” [...]
Protect your site from spammers with reCAPTCHA
Posted on January 27, 2010
Webmaster Level: All
If you allow users to publish content on your website, from leaving comments to creating user profiles, you’ll likely see spammers attempt to take advantage of these mechanisms to generate traffic to their own sites. Having this spammy content on your site isn’t fun for anyone. Users may be subjected to annoying advertisements [...]
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