Archive for March 21st, 2006

March 21

Submitting Fake News Stories to Google News

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This is old news, but I saw people talking about it recently, so I decided to clarify some things. Google News shows you news stories on other news sites. Google doesn’t write any news stories themselves. So if the news site lies, Google doesn’t know (unless it’s obvious and their algorithm can pick it out). […]

March 21

Google Joga: Google Partners with Nike

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The new site can be found at joga.com and you can login with your Google login.
Google and Nike have launched a joint soccer site that hopes to combine the success of social networking sites like Myspace.com with the passion for the world’s most popular sport.
Joga.com, inspired by the Portuguese term joga bonita (play beautifully) is […]

March 21

Google MBD

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Philipp Lenssen has the scoop on a new entry into Google’s robots.txt file — “mbd?”. There are some guesses as to what this could be in the comments for his article. One interesting suggestion that would link directly into Google Health was “Medical and Biological Database”. ZDNet

March 21

Google Finance Released

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Google has improved the search experience for financial information. Here’s the site. It looks like Yahoo Finance, but much more slick. I’m not sure about the fixed-width layout, though. Search Engine Journal saw this coming. Batelle posted about it, but his site seems down at the moment. Maybe all the traffic from people reading the […]