Stumbleupon Categorizes MSN Live Search as Porn
Sorry, this just made me laugh today. After following David Naylor’s post on MSN’s new rockin’ search interface, StumbleUpon pointed out to me that the site I was visiting (a search on airline tickets) was pornography. Since the site had yet to be reviewed, I was a little surprised that this happened. It appears that it was not a hit job by some anti-microsoft stumblers. So what gives? No tags for this post.
Readability of Web 2.0 Content
Readability. Authors, marketers and webmasters know that it matters, but as communities form up around niches of similar interest, the requirements of “write like your audience is in 3rd grade” have loosened greatly. I recently came upon a piece of software called “Text Master Pro“. The program analyzes the complexity of vocabulary used in content to determine a UV (readability) score. Despite my usual refusal to use any software with the word “pro” in the title, I fired it up and ran it on the sites listed on 8 different popular web 2.0 sites. I continued to do this with their individual feeds over the course of the week to get an average readability of the content posted to their sites. Here are the results. I also include...
SEOMoz Quiz Feeds My Ego
SEO Dark Lord – 100% Are you an SEO Expert? I must say that every time one of these quizzes comes out, I have to go take it. It is an addiction which I am currently unable to crack. The last test I remember had more of a focus on industry news than SEO-specific knowledge, so I was able to perform a little better this go around. Go ahead and take a crack at it! No tags for this...
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