Effort Underway to Replicate Silicon Valley Near Harvard University

Last Friday, inside Harvard University’s Maxwell Dworkin lecture hall, Patrick S. Chung, W. Hugo Van Vuuren, and Harry Weller introduced the Experiment Fund, which will represent “seed money” along with structural and networking support to exceptional student entrepreneurs in the Cambridge-Boston area. Among those eligible for funding will be students from Harvard, MIT, and Boston

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Be aware of these legal precedents on search ranking

The Oklahoma City based Search King, a Web hosting and advertising company, filed a law suit on October 17, 2002, against Google (Search King, Inc. v. Google Technology, Inc.; United States District Court, Western District of Oklahoma), claiming that Google unfairly removed links to its Web site as well as its partners from the index, causing financial damage. Search King’s complain was centered on Google’s PageRank algorithm which bumped Search King and its ad network out of listings. They sought a preliminary injunction against Google, restore to previous PageRank and claimed an award of $75,000 damage. The court on May 27, 2003, dismissed the case on the grounds that Google’s PageRank constitute opinions protected by the First Amendment.

In KinderStart v. Google case, KinderStart sued Google in March, 2006 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California due to its unhappiness with Google search engine ranking. KinderStart’s amount of traffic dropped 70% and prior to the case Google dropped them from the index. Judge on March 16, 2007 dismissed the case and issued Rule 11 sanctions against KinderStart’s counsel ordering him to pay part of Google’s legal expenses.

New Search Tool Out as Social Web Tells Google: “Don’t Be Evil”

Download the “bookmarklet” released today by an ad-hoc group of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace, and you might get better search results from Google. Last week, Google announced that information from its fledgling social network, Google+, would be surfaced in its search results all while effectively suppressing data from other competing, and much more

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The Underestimated Power of SEO

While search engine optimization (SEO) has been around for more than a decade, many entrepreneurs are still not convinced that it is an important part of internet marketing. Does keyword research and SEO really make a difference in the world of organic search engine results? The answer is yes. SEO companies have the tools and

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Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Interviewed by a Valley Girl

Facebook’s new digs in Menlo Park were recently visited by Jesse Draper, the host of “The Valley Girl,” an online talk show based in the Silicon Valley. Draper was on the hallowed (for tech devotees) premises to interview the company’s celebrated chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg. During the interview, Sandberg chatted about her first job

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SOPA and PIPA Disowned By President, Republican Senators, and the Public

On Wednesday, Internet users came together to denounce two bills making their way through the American legislature: the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act, also known as SOPA and PIPA. Many took directly to the streets, but the overwhelming majority expressed their opposition by spreading information about the issue on online

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SOPA and PIPA Disowned By President, Republican Senators, and the Public

Facebook Shedding Its Echo Chamber Name

For some time now, Facebook has been saddled with the unfortunate sobriquet of Echo Chamber. As anyone who’s ever tried knows all too well, ditching an unwanted nickname is more than a little complicated (read: Difficult). But, since the company behind your online life record has the motivation, human resources, and economic means to carry

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YouTube’s Networkization Ready for 2012

At seven years old, and swaggering with all its 800 million unique monthly visitors, YouTube is on the verge of something new: original, non-amateur video content. The site even has a swank-ily revamped interface from which to present its offerings of polished content. The video-sharing leviathan, whose parent company is Google, has gotten more than

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Is Google Stretching Its Monopoly’s Muscles?

Perhaps all that’s missing from the Larry Page photo you see below really is an old-fashioned top hat, a curlicue moustache, and some coattails before the familiar figure of Rich Uncle Pennybags emerges. Since Google’s announcement earlier this week that material posted on its new social network, Google+, will be given a prominent position in

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Myspace TV Coming to a Tablet Near You?

Justin Timberlake-endorsed Myspace is back on the scene, and it just may have beaten Apple and Google to a big consumer good: TV on the Web. Specific Media, Myspace’s current owners, issued a public statement about company plans to make the service available by early this year. Their idea is to offer network and cable

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