Brandchannel.com released its brand ranking for 2006, and Google sat on top for the second year in a row. Out of the top 20, internet companies occupy 5 spots:
Google: #1
Youtube: #3
Wikipedia: #4
Skype: #7
Yahoo!: #11
For 2005, 6 internet companies occupied the top 20:
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January 26th, 2007 | Posted in Internet | Comments Off
Wikipedia is now plpacing rel=”nofollow” on links to external sites. It’s interesting to see that the impetus for this change is from a recently announced SEO contest, where the top winner who can optimize for the phrase “globalwarming awareness2007″ wins a car.
I like this move. In fact, I thought this move is long overdue.  But, it’s better late than never. Even though not all spiders observe the rel=”nofollow” directive, the important ones do, and that should be enough to limit spam in Wikipedia.
January 22nd, 2007 | Posted in SEO | Comments Off