Japan's Robots

In a new book called "Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robotics," journalist Timothy Hornyak delves into the reasons behind the country's fascination with friendly, humanoid machines. The roots stretch from 17th-century novelty items on through Japan's pacifist reaction to the atomic bomb blasts of World War II.
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Click Fraud

"Online advertisers paid more than $800m last year for fraudulent clicks on their ads [...] it averaged 14.6 per cent of all clicks billed to advertisers, even after Google and others had filtered out those ones they believed to be invalid."


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Google Adsense Payout

In a recent NY Times article, said for every dollar the company brings in through AdSense, it pays roughly 78.5 cents back to sites that display the ads.

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Google Lawsuit

MSN Tech & Gadgets: "Suit over poor Google ranking may go forward

By Dawn Kawamoto, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: June 30, 2006, 2:59 PM PT

SAN JOSE, Calif.--A federal judge in California hinted that a parenting Web site that's suing Google over a poor ranking in the search giant's massive index would be able to proceed with its lawsuit.
During a hearing here Friday, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel said he's considering issuing an order that would allow KinderStart.com to amend its lawsuit against Google to add more specifics. The parent-focused directory and search engine site claims Google violated antitrust and other laws by handing KinderStart low rankings.
KinderStart alleges that its parenting search engine site suffered an approximate 70 percent drop in monthly traffic in March last year after Google buried its visibility in search results. KinderStart, which claims to have originally been in the first 10 results when Web users scoured the Internet for KinderStart, also saw an 80 percent drop in AdSense revenue.

'What Google is trying to do is take out the competition,' said Gregory Yu, KinderStart's attorney. "

SEO and Web Design

SEO and Web Design: "When we talk about the relationship between SEO and web design, it's usually the technical part of the website design art that's relevant, not the visual part (though certain aspects of visual design have their impact on SEO/SEM, as will be shown below).

One of the latest trends in the SEO industry is to put more and more emphasis on quality web design in the overall SEO process. If you aim at a long term success online, you need to know exactly how design and SEO integrate.
Make your design work for you

Good website design is like a foundation for the building of your future SEO success. The more aspects you think about before you start working on your site, the fewer obstacles you will meet later when you start looking into SEO, web promotion, ROI and other important aspects of your web presence.

Good website design includes such things as internal linking structure (i.e. navigation), folder structure, URL generation and naming conventions, coding, page download time, Usability and a lot more. If your website is interactive and uses additional dynamic functionality and tools (e.g. a newsletter subscription form with built-in verification and unsubscribe features, or e-commerce functionality), you will need to make sure that all of your client-side and server-side scripts work flawlessly and are not open to abuse of any sort. And of course, the back-end of the website (content management) should be well thought out prior to starting."

Microsoft FREE Spyware Software!

Windows Defender (Beta 2) is a free program that helps protect your computer against pop-ups, slow performance, and security threats caused by spyware and other unwanted software. It features Real-Time Protection, a monitoring system that recommends actions against spyware when it's detected, and a new streamlined interface that minimizes interruptions and helps you stay productive. Check it out at:
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Lawsuit alleges Google wrongfully banishes Web sites

RGJ.com: Lawsuit alleges Google wrongfully banishes Web sites: "SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc.'s mysterious methods for ranking Web sites came under attack Friday in a lawsuit accusing the online search engine leader of ruining scores of Internet businesses that have been wrongfully banished from its index.
The civil complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose by KinderStart.com, seeks to be certified as a class action representing the owners of all Web sites blacklisted by Google's Internet-leading search engine since January 2001.
KinderStart, a Norwalk-based Web site devoted to information about children, says it was dropped from Google's index a year ago without warning."
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Google Holds 75 Percent Market Share in the U.K., According to WebSideStory @ SYS-CON Media

Google Holds 75 Percent Market Share in the U.K., According to WebSideStory @ SYS-CON Media: "LONDON, March 24 /PRNewswire/ --
- Internet Giant Refers Nearly Three Out of Every Four Searches in the U.K., Far Outpacing Its Nearest Competitor
Google, the San Francisco-based Internet search giant, dominates the search engine market in the U.K., referring nearly three out of every four search engine visitors, according to new, independent data from WebSideStory, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand digital marketing and customer analysis applications.
For the month of Feb. 2006, Google referred an average of 74.67 percent of all U.K. visitors to other sites on the web, compared to just 9.3 percent for its nearest competitor, according to the WebSideStory Index, a new statistical barometer that features techno-graphic trends culled from the millions of users that visit web sites using the company's award-winning web analytics solution, HBX Analytics. Google's search referral percentage in the U.K. exceeds both the U.S. average for the month (55.39 percent), as well as the global average (62.4 percent). "
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