Mariana Oliveira | December 14, 2007 | 6:30 am

Encouraging People to Contribute Knowledge

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Google Blog
December 13, 2007
By Udi Manber

Google plans to provide knowledge. The project is being compared to Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers, Mahalo and Squidoo:

The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities. But not everything is written nor is everything well organized to make it easily discoverable. There are millions of people who possess useful knowledge that they would love to share, and there are billions of people who can benefit from it. We believe that many do not share that knowledge today simply because it is not easy enough to do that. The challenge posed to us by Larry, Sergey and Eric was to find a way to help people share their knowledge. This is our main goal.

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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html

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Mariana Oliveira | December 8, 2007 | 5:56 am

Google Bans Ads For (Most) Paid Links Marketplaces

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Blogoscoped
December 2, 2007
By Philipp Lenssen

Discussion about advertising, spam and Google.

Google continues to crack down on those text link advertising methods which don’t carry the “nofollow” attribute as a “machine-readable disclosure.” The latest move, triggered by communication between Google’s web spam team and the Google AdWords department, as Google’s Matt Cutts says, is to disallow the advertising for such PageRank-selling schemes via Google.
Compare the ads for the query pr8 – i.e. “PageRank 8” – from November 18th with today.

Read the full article: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-12-02-n40.html

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