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Wait, Google Is Responding To Algorithm Criticism Behind A Paywall?

18x18 TechCrunch   2010-07-15
The New York Times ran a controversial op-ed piece yesterday entitled “The Google Algorithm.” Basically, the piece wonders if the government shouldn’t step in to control the way Google tweaks its s...

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Google News Gets Biggest Overhaul Since 2002, Adds Trending Topics And Personal News Stream

18x18 TechCrunch   2010-06-30
After months of testing, today Google News is unveiling “the biggest redesign since the beta launch in 2002,” says director of product management Ben Ling. The main new elements of the page include...

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Huffington Post Buys Adaptive Semantics To Keep Up With 100,000 Comments A Day

18x18 TechCrunch   2010-06-17
The Huffington Post has acquired its first company in a small cash deal, and it is not another blog or media site, but a pure technology startup called Adaptive Semantics. The two-person startup pr...

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Yahoo Media Chief Sounds Like AOL's: 'To Truly Scale, You Need Content From The Crowd'

18x18 TechCrunch   2010-06-08
In case you still had any doubts that Yahoo and AOL are pursuing the same strategy when it comes to building a media brand online, all you have to do is listen to the two executives running the res...

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TechCrunch Disrupt: AOL employs 4000 journalists, including 500 full-time

18x18 TechCrunch   2010-05-25
It’s no secret that AOL is aggressively building out its content strategy. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong says that the company now employs 4,000 journalists, 3,500 of which are...

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Fwix Taps Into Facebook’s Open Graph To Socialize Hyperlocal News Aggregator

18x18 TechCrunch   2010-04-28
Fwix, a news site that offers a stream of hyperlocal, realtime news by location, is tapping into Facebook’s recently launched Open Graph API to socialize content on its platform. As we wrote in our...

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Tribune Company Finds An Audience For Homegrown Hyperlocal News Site ChicagoNow

18x18 TechCrunch   2010-04-24
As AOL pours $50 million into its hyperlocal news site Patch.com to expand its sites around the country, smaller competitors are maintaining confidence that their platforms can survive AOL’s aggres...

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Facebook VP Chris Cox On The Company's Past, Future, And Recipe For Success

18x18 TechCrunch   2010-04-21
Today to close out its f8 developer conference, Facebook VP of Product Chris Cox took the stage to talk about the evolution of Facebook over the last six years, and how the company’s core principle...

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Y Combinator's NewsTilt aims to help journalists create a business model for content

18x18 TechCrunch   2010-04-12
The business and content models behind news have been changing dramatically over the past few years; with the mechanisms by which journalists interact with their audiences constantly transforming a...

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Just Because I Loved My Etch-A-Sketch Doesn’t Mean The iPad Will Save Newspapers

18x18 TechCrunch   2010-04-11
Thirty five years ago, give or take, I was presented with my first etch-a-sketch. And it looked a little bit like the iPad. Which makes me qualified to declare the iPad the future of media. Or at l...

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Will AOL and Demand Media’s Content Farm Strategy Prevail?

18x18 TechCrunch   2010-04-10
Editor’s note: Guest author Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of video site WatchMojo. In this post he examines the two biggest content farms springing up on the Web: Demand Media and Ao...

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Why a Bad Economy Is the Best Time to Start a Business

18x18 TechCrunch   2010-04-10
A guest post by Adam L. Penenberg While researching my latest book, Viral Loop, an in-depth look at how companies like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Skype and others grew so big so fast, it occurred t...