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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:24:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Visual Comparison of Search Results: A Censorship Case Study]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60345</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60345</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:24:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Tips &amp; Tools</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60345</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The search results that you see from Google in the US for a specific query may be different than the search results you see in France, or China, or Germany.  Indiana University researchers have developed an interesting tool that points out differences in search result sets from one country to another.  These differences may be the result of censorship, or could be caused by other factors, such as a preference for showing shopping or local results.  Very interesting tool, regardless.<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Spammers and Scammers on Social Networks]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/60056</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/60056</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:12:36 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/60056</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What kinds of dangers might lurk on social networks when people set out to use them for nefarious reasons?  The article explores a scam that happened on Plurk and Twitter, but raises questions about how any social network can be abused.<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Responsibility and the Small Business]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/59712</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/59712</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:21:07 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/59712</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The growth of the social web, increases in search engines understanding sentiments and opinions in reviews and user created content, and greater scrutiny of misleading business practices urge businesses to become more socially responsible.  What steps are you taking with your business to treat all of your stakeholders more responsibly, including your customers and your community around you?<br/><br/>49 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Representing Your Business on the Social Web]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47968</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47968</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 07:49:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47968</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Linkbaiting false stories, using sockpuppets in social voting networks, engaging in comment spam and forum spam, being solely self promotional in venues where self promotion is frowned upon?Small business can benefit from engaging in conversations within their markets.  But, what responsibilities do merchants have when they venture into social networking and blogging, in entering into the conversations that people are having about those markets?<br/><br/>49 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[You've got Mixx in My Facebook]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/31667</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/31667</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:41:14 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/31667</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Mixx shares the news that just about anything you could do on Mixx, you can now do in Mixx on Facebook.Good move, bad move?  I don't know.  But it's interesting to see social sites being social like this.<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Spurring Discussion (Posts) on Sphinn]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/25143</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/25143</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:07:07 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/25143</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A quick run through the &quot;Hot Topics,&quot; the &quot;What's New,&quot; and &quot;Sphinn's Greatest Hits&quot; shows that news posts outnumber discussion posts on a grand scale.I think it's great that news posts are so popular, I wondered if discussion posts could gain in frequency with some minor changes to Sphinn.I do believe that the architecture of a social site can influence how it is used, and that there might be some way of calling more attention to discussions.  Since Sphinn allows both News posts and Discussions, it seems like discussions were envisioned to be part of the site, perhaps on a greater manner than they are now.One change that might make a difference is having a  comments box for news stories and a comments box for discussions.  Presently, comments for both inhabit the same area on the pages of Sphinn.Anyone find that thought interesting, or have some other ideas on how to spur on more discussion posts?Thanks.<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Yahoo Replaces PageRank Assumptions with User Data]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/23376</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/23376</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:32:24 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Yahoo</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/23376</guid>
<description><![CDATA[It's good to see folks in the search community challenging some assumptions behind PageRank, while introducing a new flavor of PageRank which replaces those assumptions with user data. A patent application from Yahoo, published last week, takes aim at Random Surfers, Unguided Teleportation, Block Level Approaches, and the Equality of Links, from people who know PageRank very well.<br/><br/>58 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google on Reading Text in Images from Street Views, Store Shelves, and Museum Interiors]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/21282</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/21282</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:04:06 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/21282</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Real picture taking robots, coming to stores and museums near you?  Plus, how well can Google really understand text within images?  Possible very well.<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What every SEO should know about Personalized Search]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/15011</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/15011</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:42:47 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/15011</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A thoughtful and helpful look at how personalization in search may impact search results, and an exploration of a handful of the key metrics involved in that personalization.Very nicely done.<br/><br/>30 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Color Me (Socially) Green]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12518</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12518</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:07:08 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12518</guid>
<description><![CDATA[People are talking: Carbon offsets, plug-in hybrids, species extinction, debt-for-nature swaps, urban sustainability, permafrost meltdowns, carfree days.Links to Green Communities and Social Networks, so that you can join in on the conversations.<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Should a Small Business Blog?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/7382</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/7382</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:12:13 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/7382</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I'm sure that many of the ideas in this post are probably familiar to the many bloggers who post here.  I'm curious though as to some of the things that you might tell people who express an interest about blogging for their business.<br/><br/>44 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[20 More Ways that Search Engines May Rerank Search Results]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/6171</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/6171</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:21:50 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/6171</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Last October, I wrote about &quot;20 ways search engines might rerank search results.&quot; It was Sphunn a couple of days ago (thanks, Dave), and Danny pulled it from the &quot;what's new&quot; section, because, like, it's not new. :)I vowed to write a sequel in the sphinn comments to that one.  So here it is.<br/><br/>48 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What Triggers Local Search Information to Appear in Web Search Results]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2719</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2719</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:13:34 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2719</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I've been hearing that local search results appearing in search engine Web results pages have become pretty popular since being introduced.How might whois data play a role in whether contact and address information is displayed in search resuls?  What special challenges might large sites, or businesses with many locations face in having that contact information shown?  A new Google patent application considers those issues and others.<br/><br/>27 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Going Supplemental with Google's Extended Databases]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/2471</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/2471</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:44:33 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/2471</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How does Google estimate the number of results for a query?When and why do you get that message at the bottom of SERPs, that tells you to click upon it to see more results?  How does a standard index, cache, and extended index work together to provide results to a searcher?I've walked through, and summarized, the processes described in a couple of Google patents to see how and when expanded database results might appear with standard index results.<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The SEO of Everyday Pages]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1973</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1973</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:08:51 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1973</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Often contact pages, directions pages, and other mundane &quot;everyday&quot; pages are overlooked when it comes to optimizing a site.  Yet, those pages may present opportunities for organic and Universal Search results that can't be matched by other pages on a site.  These are pages that small businesses could be taking advantage of, but often don't.<br/><br/>34 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Patent Granted on Semantic Units (Meaningful Compound Words) -]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1400</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1400</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:54:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1400</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A Google patent granted this week, and filed in 2000, describes a reranking process for semantically meaningful phrases appearing in search queries.  This isn't the phrase-based indexing that some have blamed a -950 penalty for, nor the Infoseek phrase-based indexing technology that Google acquired in 2005, but it does seem like a sensible way to do some reranking of results when there are semantically meaningful relationships between words which appear in a query together.<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Mapplets Go Public - Making Mapping Mashups Easy]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/105</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/105</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:29:49 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/105</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, July 11, Google will be introducing Mapplets for public use.  These Google gadgets allow people to use previously created mapping mashups on their own maps.   A preview is available at:http://maps.google.com/preview<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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