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by itsprofitbaron 10y ago
"Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) on Monday announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn for $196 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at
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by itsprofitbaron 10y ago
They acquired part of Bing's Mapping Assets alongside ~100 employees - http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/29/uber-acquires-part-of-bings... and http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1106434121338
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by itsprofitbaron 12y ago
There was an EMD (Exact Match Domain) update in September 2012 to fix this.
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by itsprofitbaron 12y ago
To remove that & avoid logging in / registering, just add "?share=1" to the end of the URL.
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by itsprofitbaron 12y ago
Don't want to be that guy but 4-5 years for enterprise startups "to get to this point" which I'm assuming is either that market cap size or IPO is ambitious - Enterprise startups tend to take a while to get that flywhe
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Beyond looking at the implications for Net Neutrality (since we don't really know the implications of this deal going forward in relation to this); for people who are wondering why this has happened, this looks like this is part of Net
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Based on a question answered by PG on Askolo, YCombinator track them[1]: Q: Have there been any startups you've later regretted rejecting from YCombinator? A: Sure, several. But I can't name names because it's not for me to
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Yes and No. Essentially Kara/Walt and WSJ/Dow Jones/NewsCorp "divorced". The "divorce" left Kara/Walt with the writers (as they were employed by them) and WSJ/Dow Jones/NewsCorp the AllThing
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
How is that not fair? "My personal belief is that, devaluing the site for the BRAND term e.g. [rap genius] actually devalues Google's quality. On the other side of the coin, if someone searches for [X rap genius] whilst t
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
If only HN allowed Comic Sans
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Sponsored Posts are what Google calls advertorials and considered to be a link scheme[1] which means they're against their webmaster guidelines[2]. However, they're acceptable if they do not carry any link equity (aka. use the no
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Reddit tried to resolve it through, a code level setting of the lang within their source code. However, Google ignores all code-level language information including lang attributes and document type definitions (DTD)[1] etc because, some CM
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Is there any reason a website owner should act and remove the links? Surely it's not my/our problem? You should only remove links if they do not provide any value to your audience. A website owner does not need to act and
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Good in that it will be temporary: specifically 30 days. Please don't preach about SEO if you know nothing about it or aren't up-to-date with how SEO works because, this is completely wrong. The penalty that Rap Genius hav
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
The people who are claiming that do not know anything about SEO. They're pulling figures from fresh air. For instance, in the case of JC Penney[1] it took them 90 days to recover from their penalty but it took Interflora[2] 11 days etc
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
"They should care about delivering the best quality search results to their users, and nothing else" That's why they focus on Bad SEO because it means that they won't be showing the best results to their users. B
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Not going into all the regulation talk (partly because don't believe that Google needs regulation as another search engine is just an address bar/couple of clicks away) but with regards to: "One is to force Google to make
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
"restores at least some of the startup’s search result ranking juice in exchange for it cleaning up its act" As I tweeted to Josh on Twitter[1] this actually happens to all sites once they've got themselves out of a penalty
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
how does TechCrunch have any Google rank then? How do most tech publications, for that matter? TechCrunch does not post advertorials, they post content for free and they actually posted on their site to reaffirm this fact[1]. Sure there m
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
It's not different. As mentioned earlier, paying for links is against one of Google's Webmaster Guidelines[1] and your example specifically falls under the Link Scheme[2] category which is affecting Rap Genius. Those types of link
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Essentially Rap Genius violated one of Google's Webmaster Guidelines[1] by attempting to manipulate the SERPs through getting webmasters to link to several lyrics pages in exchange for a tweet. In doing so, Google considers this as lin
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
In that example they should still rank for "lyrics.com" which would be the BRAND term. Google actually have done an EMD update to devalue sites trying to rank for generics using a generic domain. As you can see using Google Adword
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
By working with Google they mean they're going to work with them to identify the links they need to clean up, try and get those links "cleaned up" themselves, submit a disavow file and then get them to reconsider the site as
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Whilst this may be surprising to some people on HN, this happens all of the time to sites who build links in an unnatural way. For instance, this has happened in the past to well known brands such as J.C Penney through NYTimes expose[1], In
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
They have all the power of a bank, but none of the accountability. They're actually a bank in Europe.
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
If that malicious addon/website can compromise your local machine then, yes the information can be accessed. Similarly, when you aren't using https the password is sent in plain text and could also be accessed then as well.
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
When you save your password in Chrome, they are stored on your local machine and are decrypted once your OS user is logged in. This is why you can view the passwords in plain text although, the main reason is because in order to use auto-fi
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
$4bn for an easily replaceable service that is little more than Microsoft Paint duct taped to a disposable camera? Oh please! Sure you can recreate the app pretty easily which, you can also do for most services (this does not mean scaling
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
The best way to stylize jQuery Mobile is to create a new theme through modifying an existing one - I'd recommend modifying an existing one because of the cross browser testing/developments they have already done to the CSS.
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by itsprofitbaron 13y ago
Successfully raising capital is pretty much always seen as a win This is the wrong mindset, people often think that raising capital from investors is win, it's not; raising capital does not mean a company will be successful. Raising

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