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Text Messaging Is in Decline in Some Countries - | |

"Chlamydia" Most Frequently Searched Health Term On Mobile Devices | | ?

Verizon Outages, New $2 Fee Irk Customers - | |

Verizon Outages, New $2 Fee Irk Customers - | |

In response, the webspam team has taken manual action to demote www.google.com/chrome for at least 60 days. After that, someone on the Chrome side can submit a reconsideration request documenting their clean-up just like any other company would. During the 60 days, the PageRank of www.google.com/chrome will also be lowered to reflect the fact that we also won’t trust outgoing links from that page.

In response, the webspam team has taken manual action to demote www.google.com/chrome for at least 60 days. After that, someone on the Chrome side can submit a reconsideration request documenting their clean-up just like any other company would. During the 60 days, the PageRank of www.google.com/chrome will also be lowered to reflect the fact that we also won’t trust outgoing links from that page.

RT @RWW: Android Ice Cream Sandwich Running On Less Than 1% of Total Devices

RT @mashable: Samsung Announces Galaxy Ace Plus and Galaxy M Style -

RT @gigaom: How Spain’s version of SOPA is setting the web on fire

RT @jowyang: ZDNet: RIM has "Lost It". Share price plunged 75% in 2011.

RT @Gartenberg: Lowell and I are both skipping the show this year.

RT @TheNextWeb: What 2012 holds for Facebook by @jonrussell on @tnwfacebook

RT @karaswisher: well done story: Swag taints tech coverage, raises ethics questions via @sfgate

Barnes & Noble looks to sell publishing arm, keeps the other to hold a Nook Tablet -- Engadget | |

30 search quality highlights (with codenames!): December - Inside Search | |

RT @Techmeme: Vizio's next market? Desktop and laptop PCs (Update: pictures!) (@rjcc / Engadget)

RT @Techmeme: Vizio's next market? Desktop and laptop PCs (Update: pictures!) (@rjcc / Engadget)

RT @Techmeme: Microsoft will no longer provide detailed Windows Phone update information (@tomwarren / The... http: ...

RT @Techmeme: Safari 5 for OS X, Firefox 9 for Windows 7 crowned victors of browser benchmark battle... ...

RT @Techmeme: Samsung launches ChatON on the App Store, hopes to compete with iMessage (@m4tt / The Next Web) http: ...

French court frowns on ... ?

RT @Techmeme: U.S. Government Threatens Free Speech With Calls for Twitter Censorship (@wllegal / Electronic... htt ...

RT @labnol: The number of "active" Google TV users should be anywhere between 10k-50k tip @techmeme

This leaves us with the potential for an interesting face-off. Not Samsung vs Motorola/HTC, but…Samsung vs. Google. As Erik Sherman observes in his CBS MoneyWatch post, since Samsung ships close to 55% of all Android phones, the company could be in a position to twist Google’s arm. If last quarter’s trend continues — if Motorola and HTC lose even more ground — Samsung’s bargaining position will become even stronger.

So that, ladies and gentleman, is why I hate Android. It has nothing to do with the actual product (which continues to improve every year and is quite good now). It has to do with a promise that was broken and swept under the rug.

The story here isn’t that pretty for Net­flix, which has lost sub­stan­tial ground from last year’s posi­tion, offer­ing less than half of the hits it used to offer last year. If you think of their recent moves towards cre­at­ing orig­i­nal con­tent, it appears that Net­flix is slowly mov­ing away from its ini­tial strat­egy of pro­vid­ing online stream­ing of movies on a sub­scrip­tion basis and mov­ing more to a model more akin to that of a TV network. Another inter­est­ing devel­op­ment here is that online stream­ing seems to be some los­ing ground com­pared to DVDs. One could assume that, as a new tech­nol­ogy, online stream­ing would be gain­ing ground on DVDs but that doesn’t appear to be the case. Granted, we only have a cou­ple of data points so next year’s data will pro­vide us with a bet­ter under­stand­ing as to whether hol­ly­wood is try­ing to slow down the progress of online streaming.

The most interesting aspect of Google's move, however, is its tacit acknowledgement that its stalwart search links are largely irrelevant and might as well be replaced with social results. Google search results are essentially gamed results produced by search optimizers.