thadwoodman

15년 전discuss

The Brooklyn vs. Manhattan result shouldn't be surprising considering that Brooklyn is really REALLY big, and much poorer than Manhattan. I would bet that if you were to whittle down Brooklyn to Williamsburg, or if you were to control for income, the results would look significantly different.

thadwoodman

15년 전discuss

I am not a huge fan of the Economist, but I do think they manage the synthesis of reporting and critical analysis effectively by bluntly making value statements. For example, take an exerpt from an article on Romney:

"He says he created a net 100,000 jobs during his time at Bain. That figure is impossible to prove, but he could do more to argue that the benefits outweigh the costs."

I wouldn't have a problem with that sentence appearing in the Times.

thadwoodman

15년 전discuss

I don't think anyone wants to remove the rel=nofollow attribute. I think people are confused why you can't have a social recommendation appear on a serp even if it is a rel=nofollow.

thadwoodman

15년 전discuss

"The hubbub is centered around a complaint by Twitter that links shared on Twitter are not surfacing in the search results."

I think this mischaracterizes this complaint. I don't think anyone is complaining that the LINKS themselves aren't surfacing. That complaint would imply that their ought to be some influence between links on Twitter and the search rank of those linked pages. And I don't think anyone wants to see spammy tweets on Twitter altering skewing search ranking.

Rather the complaint is that recommendations from Twitter are not APPEARING in the search results. And to that point: Why is it difficult for Google to index the fact that someone linked to a site (whether it be rel=nowfollow or not)? Why does this information need to be coupled with the passing of page rank?

thadwoodman

15년 전discuss

I wonder if they will ever work on a flawless mobile OS that has tons of great apps and great offline support for Google Docs.

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