Linky Goodness, May 23
Friday, May 23rd, 2008;
-- Jordan McCollum |
Okay, let’s face it. Your attention span hasn’t improved since this morning and neither has mine. So here’s the afternoon’s news in bite-sized pieces so you can leave for your vacation guilt free.
- Good news: most people don’t believe everything they read on the Internet. 48% say that a small portion or none of online info is reliable, 38% think about half is reliable, and 13% think most of it’s reliable. (And yes, that does leave 1% that think all Internet information is reliable.) So it may be safe for most people to use Wikipedia.
- That’s right, put those profitless academics in their place: Live Search will shutter Book search and academic search. Because if Google’s taught us anything, it’s that only things that turn a quick profit are worth doing, and books are passé anyway.
- After last year’s comparison, Danny Sullivan revisits the four major search engine market share ratings services. Things look a bit more consistent this time around.
- We mentioned Facebook was almost done with its spring profile redesign earlier this week, and Read Write Web reports that it’s now open to developers.
- And to end, some news of the weird. You remember how AOL leaked all that user data? Here’s the most creative use yet (that doesn’t involve identity theft): AOL’s Leaked Searches Get Turned Into Play: USER 927. Apparently this is true.
Now go enjoy yourselves!
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May 23rd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
I wonder what implications that that first link has for Wikipedia…
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May 23rd, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Wow, are people ever skeptical. So 86% of of people think that half or less of the information they get online is unreliable. I have to wonder what kind of sites most people are hanging around in. It’s not that bad.
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May 24th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Shoudl be interesting to see what the new Facebook latout looks like I have been waiting to get a hold of a better profile page for what seems like forever now.
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May 24th, 2008 at 4:32 am
As a web developer I know that we are always looking for the angle to sell a website but lying about the information is not on, so few people actually believing about the information they read is crazy. I guess thats why when we find a site that we really like we will continuously coming back, like this site, I believe almost everything that you write as you have built your credibility.
May 24th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Intersting post, Well this is my first time visiting this website and must say it has good content worth sticking…. let me read a few other posts and will definatly be back for more.
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May 24th, 2008 at 10:54 am
It is reassuring about the Internet but what is the source for the stats?
May 24th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
I downloaded the AOL data once, and worked around with it, doing some statistics and whatnots… however 95% of the data or so was for english based queries, and the rest for all other languages… Since my target market is spanish based, that data proved useless to me… but I know many have profited greatly from that blunder…
May 25th, 2008 at 10:11 am
I hope this doesn’t mean that people believe what CNN dishes up….lol
May 25th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Yes, unfortunately they do believe it. Why to you think they keep dishing it up?
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May 26th, 2008 at 3:39 am
Most people tend to recheck the information that they get off the net. Usually its only the preliminary information that they get from there anyway.
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