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In the New Year, Google seems to be changing their algorithm and making the search results more time related. The leading search engine has been ranking items from popular sites like Digg higher than factual or historical sites like Wikipedia. Is this a move towards a Web 3.0? In other news, Kara Ratliff [...] Tags: Digg, Google, Google's Algorithm, Kara Ratliff, Steve Souders, Web 3.0, Wikipedia, yahoo

Founder and President of Netconcepts, Stephan Spencer gave Kara Ratliff of WebProNews an insight into Wikipedia before his session at SMX Social Media 2007 in New York City. His session, titled Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers and Answer Sharing gave the audience the opportunity to learn a few things about how to use Wikipedia to edit [...] Tags: Kara Ratliff, Netconcepts, SMX, Stephan Spencer, Wikipedia

WebProNews caught up with Founder and President of Netconcepts, Stephan Spencer as well as Founder and President of JE Hochman & Associates, Jonathan Hochman at SES San Jose 2007. The two discuss their views of Wikipedia, including the front page and the future of the online encyclopedia with Wikiscanner. Spencer and Hochman also [...] Tags: JE Hochman Associates, Jonathan Hochman, Mike McDonald, Netconcepts, San Jose 2007, SES, Stephan Spencer, Wikipedia, WikiScanner

Co-Founder of ACS, Neil Patel talked with WebProNews about Wikipedia and SEO. He discusses what not to do when trying to strategize on Wikipedia and mentions to make sure everything you add is accurate information, otherwise it isn’t effective. He also talks about other strategies to use when trying to improve your optimization. [...] Tags: Abby Prince, ACS, Neil Patel, San Jose, SEO, SES, Wikipedia

Wikipedia, one of the largest reference sites is open to the public for editing. But now Virgil Griffith has created a new application for the free site, to allow users to see who has edited the page. Last year, reports showed that several big companies tweaked their own pages to only allow good [...] Tags: , Kara Ratliff, Maltastar, News Update, Russell Shaw, Virgil Griffith, Wikimedia Foundation Inc., Wikipedia, WikiScanner, ZDnet

Just days after the bodies of professional wrestler, Chris Benoit, his wife, and son were found by authorities, investigators found a new twist to the disturbing case. Someone had edited Chris Benoit’s Wikipedia page, writing that Benoit was absent from a Saturday match due to the death of his wife, Nancy. This was [...] Tags: Andrea Diebold, Chris Benoit, News Update, professional wrestler, Wikipedia

The leading news community on the Web has recently executed a “re-invention” of their already successful website. Topix connects people to news and information in every town and city in the United States. People can catch the latest news in their own areas, and then see what’s going on in the town they’re planning a [...] Tags: Chris Tolles, Google, Jimmy Wales, Topix, Web2Expo, Wikipedia

Businesses race against the clock to keep up with the Daylight savings time. A federal law will take effect to reduce energy costs and move up Daylight saving time, also known as DST, to start three weeks earlier on March 11th and end one week later on November 4th. Yesterday, Microsoft started the [...] Tags: Daylight Saving Time, Pope Benedict, Search, Sights, Social, Wikipedia

Microsoft’s main search executive, Christopher Payne, won’t be leading the charge against Google any more. He’s leaving Microsoft to launch a new technology startup. Microsoft has lost search market share to Google and Yahoo during his tenure. Microsoft’s stagnant movement in search market share, depriving it of greater search ad business, likely contributed to the [...] Tags: Federated, Live, Media, Microsoft, TechCrunch, Turkey, Wikipedia, YouTube