Maile Ohye has an excellent writeup scanning various duplicate content issues caused by URL parameters on the Google Webmaster Central blog. How can URL parameters, like session IDs or tracking IDs, cause duplicate content? When user and/or tracking information is stored through URL parameters, duplicate content can arise because the same page is accessible through [...]

Last week Netscape & AOL announced that they would be reverting the Netscape.com site to its old news portal self and away from the Calacanis built and editorially driven social news voting and sharing site, and relaunching the Netscape project somewhere else in the AOL empire. Breaking news just came out that AOL and Netscape [...]

Omgili stands for “Oh My God I Love It”. Its a search engine exclusively for discussion boards, opinions, forums and conversations and returns results on what the netirati are discussing about your relevant topic. A quote from Pandia.com According to Ran Geva of Omgili, “Omgili’s search algorithm analyzes forums not as a simple web page, [...]

Today I typed Google.com into my URL box in my Firefox browser and Google.com automatically redirected me to iGoogle, the Google Account holder personalized homepage. This is the first time I have witnessed this automatic serving of the Google Personalized Homepage to a registered Google user. Personally, I hardly ever visit the Google.com homepage, as [...]

Nielsen/Netratings released its Topline U.S. Data for August 2007 covering Top Sites by Parent Company and Top Brands. Before going into the findings of the ratings, it should be noted that this the first ratings released by Nielsen/Netratings employing its new measurement gauge of measuring the time spent by individual users on a particular site. [...]

The State of Florida has launched a controversial new site which lets school students and parents check on the disciplinary histories of public school teachers. MyFloridaTeacher.com (not Firefox compliant but according to the local news has attracted over 600,000 visitors this week) is powered by the searchable database of the Florida Department of Education Bureau [...]