From PageRank to Reader to Image Search, Google transformed online curation and internet virality. When did this cultural mainstay begin to lose relevance?
Over at Google Blogoscoped, one of my favorite sites on search, blogger Philipp Lenssen reports that he has been threatened by SEO Inc., a SEO company, for posting widely known facts about the company. He does not have the money to pay for his defense, so he has taken.
Google is making a very clear decision to license and host news content. In other words, to make money from it, like Yahoo does. This is counter to Google's long standing tradition of being "switchboard" to traffic when it comes to content, and it has very significant implications if.