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Move Over, Wikipedia: Amazon May Be The King Of Google Rankings : While the SEO industry has spent years decrying how well Wikipedia seems to dominate Google’s rankings, it may be that Amazon.com is the real king of visibility. For most of the past 18 months or so, Amazon has shown up on the first page of Google search results more often than Wikipedia and... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Is Google’s New Requirement to Hide a Home Business Appropriate? : There have been many questions about the recently publicized change in Google’s Places policy that home based businesses that do not receive customers at their home should hide their address. Many have been critical of Google’s change and many have criticized the apparent illogic of the rule. I see the issue somewhat differently. Certainly Google has a right to create guidelines that affect quality as they see fit. And this policy is mostly rational. Or rather its intent is. Its goal is to provide Google Map users with locations that they can drive to and have a reasonable expectation of finding “somebody at home” there. But Google has not done everything right with this change. 1) Penalties should never precede the public policy which was the case here by a number of weeks. We were seeing this in the forums and with Andrew Shotland’s post long before it was publicly acknowledged. Change the policy, publicize the...

The Solar Kickbacks of Barack Obama : Obama is continuing to scoff at those who disagree with his energy policies: “Some politicians . . . dismiss the promise of solar power and wind power and fuel-efficient cars,” Obama said. “They make jokes about it. One member of Congress who shall remain unnamed called these jobs ‘phony.’ If these people were around when Columbus set sail, they would’ve been founding members of the Flat Earth Society.” Keep reading this post . . .

Jim Messina probably shouldn’t talk about first day Presidential promises. : Head Obama for America flack Jim Messina’s got yet another reeking-of-desperation fundraising email out complaining that – Prepared to be terrified, folks! – the GOP candidates are all promising to take a stake through the heart of Obamacare and kill it dead, dead, dead on their first day in office.  This is, of course, a fringe position – if one can define ‘fringe’ as ‘ supported by somewhere around 52% of the population* ,’ which the Democrats will certainly at least try to do. Anyway, Messina’s a bit wordy when he’s whining.  That means that I can cut down the meat of his argument, such as it is: Most candidates promise to do something great, even historic, on their first day in office. But this year’s Republican presidential candidates are oddly and singularly focused: They’d all repeal Obamacare on Day One, and take our health care system right back to where it was. Several thoughts on that...

That’s a Wrap, Folks. The Nomination Fight is Over : In the 1995 movie Apollo 13 , we see where America had lost interest in the lunar flights. Where on previous flights, the public hung on every transmission from the spacecraft, the country had pretty much tuned this “routine flight” out. Instead of covering its public transmissions, the networks ran “I Dream of Jeannie” and other such fare. No one was paying much attention until the accident put the mission into mortal peril. The same sort of thing seems to be happening to the 2012 GOP Presidential Nomination race. Howard Kurtz writes : When Mitt Romney was winning the Illinois primary on Tuesday night, Bill O’Reilly moved from a short discussion of the contest to segments on whether Barack Obama is pushing the country toward socialism and whether he’s been tough enough on Iran. Sean Hannity led off his show with another debate on whether Bill Maher is a bad guy. It wasn’t just Fox. On MSNBC, Ed Schultz devoted half his program ...

Poll Analysis: Rasmussen Daily Tracking Poll : Rasmussen has released today’s Daily Tracking Poll data. Here is the raw data: (vs. Obama) Obama Candidate Candidate Lead Romney 43 45 2 Santorum 47 42 -5 Gingrich n/a n/a n/a Paul n/a n/a n/a And here is the graphic representation of the trend lines: Today’s data represents the average of polls taken from March 22 through March 24. Since “Etch-a-sketch” occurred on the 19th, the effects are fully baked in now. And what are the results? When it happened, Mitt was trailing the Obama by 1 ppts. Now Mitt is leading the president by 1 ppt. Mitt was leading Santorum by 4 ppts. He is now leading him by seven. The inescapable conclusion has to be that “Etch-a-sketch” means very little in the grand scheme of things. Mitt’s opponents are going to have to find some other means to derail the Romney express. By the same token, Santorum’s “Vote for Obama” occurred on the 20th. It is fully baked in, as well. An...