All Posts Tagged With: "Engadget"

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What On Earth Is Going On With The Latest Google PageRank Update?

It’s been a very long time since I’ve written a post while I’m at work, but Andy Beard just pinged me about a story he’d just posted, and I just had to write something I’m so stunned by the post.
Over the last couple of weeks, Google has apparently been penalising sites that have been selling [...]

24Oct2007 | Everton | 53 comments | Continued
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How to Make Money Stealing Other People’s Content*

One of the reasons that fudged statistics and even outright lies have a tendency to spread rapidly through the mainstream media is that the mainstream media does something that the blogosphere is only just waking up to: re-writing competitors’ stories without doing additional reporting.
In other words, one way to rapidly and cheaply generate content is [...]

22Aug2007 | Christopher Mims | 13 comments | Continued
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More Free Content On The Web Could Hurt Your Revenue — Here’s How To Fight Back

With more and more mainstream outlets launching blogs and taking down the paywalls around their news, what’s a blogger to do?
As this trend accelerates, and these sites get wise to the traffic and revenue generating potential of service journalism (which is all a blog like Engadget really is, anyway) there is a very real potential [...]

14Aug2007 | Christopher Mims | 2 comments | Continued
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Which Mainstream Site Has The Worst Adverts?

My real introduction to the internet began in 1997 when I got transferred to the US. Although we had ONE PC (!!) in the London office of my firm that was connected to the internet, nobody really knew what it was for. Just after I got to the US office they got a [...]

28May2007 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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Power Of The Blog: Engadget Causes Apple Stock To Drop 2.2%

It’s amazing how powerful and how widely read some of the uberblogs have become. Yesterday, Engadget posted a story based on an email from an ‘apple source’ claiming that Apple was about to announce another delay of Leopard External Link, the next version of Mac OS X, as well as a delay [...]

17May2007 | Everton | 9 comments | Continued
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