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Google, Digg, Facebook and Being Social

November 8, 2007 – 10:44 am | by jaygaulardcom

The “nofollow” tag, when added to a link, prevents Google from counting the link as such a “recommendation”, thus not providing any search ranking benefits to the site being linked to.

Rumor: Digg close to a $300 million sale

Digg is close to announcing its sale to a major media player for $300 million to $400 million, according to sources close to the company.

Report: Google Organizing Less Than 0.02% of the World’s Information

The later study estimated that between 3,416,281 TB and 5,609,121 TB were produced in 2002, so there was a ~19% annual growth rate between ‘99 and ‘02. Assuming the same growth rate to present, somewhere between 6,869,341 TB and 11,278,629 TB of new information were produced in 2006. There were only 1085 Terabytes Organized by Google Last Year.

Facebook to Turn Users Into Endorsers

Facebook now will give advertisers the ability to create their own profile pages on its system that will let users identify themselves as fans of a product.