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Are new link descriptor tags to replace nofollow on major search engines ??

Major Search Engines are believed to introduce a series of link descriptor tags to complement (or replace) the well know rel=”nofollow” tag introduced to curb misuse of linking efforts. According to a recent post , nofollow has been found to fall short of the original objectives. Google YAHOO!, Ask (and

DSL Prices fall sharply – France cheapest

internet-pro offers information on the dynamics of DSL pricing over the last 12 months taken from an emarketer.com report The results of the analysis show …

Top Italian blogs

Interested in the most popular blogs in Italy ? Qix offers a list of the top 200 blogs providing an insight as to what Italians are following, and trends in Italian blogging. Politics (Beppe Grillo) , Blogging (WordPress), Search Engines (Motoricerca), and Travel (travelblog) all rank high, followed by many

Europe studies the Web 2.0 phenomenon with TAGora

TAGora is a Research Project funded by the European Union. The TAGora project aims at exploiting the unique opportunities offered by the increasing popularity of computer-mediated social interaction and social networks. The project will develop along several lines: A systematic and rigorous data collection campaign that will produce reference datasets

E-commerce statistics Italy 2006

Il Sole 24 Ore ha reported e-commerce B2C (business-to-consumer) numbers are on the rise with a 45% increase when compared to 2005, and an economic value of 4 billion Euros, still les than 1% of goods and services sold in Italy: Online purchasing is still a niche. Tourism has shown

Integration of blogs and journalism

The European Journalism Observatory presents the results of a recent study conducted in Europe on the progressive integration of blogs and traditional media, and how Journalists are relying more and more on blogs to pick up new stories.

How to change your DMOZ Description in MSN

The MSN Search Blog reports MSN Search Engine may use the description from a web page instead of ODP title and description. In a move to please the search community and more in general webmasters, MSN has introduced a new robots meta tag that tells the MSN search bot not