links for 2008-03-05

Interesting, unlike the 'most trusted' results from the UK, Apple tops Google in the States

Great diagrams of link juice flowing in and out of buckets, which does well to explain the concept, but does nothing to convince me that this still wasn't all a terrible idea in the first place.

"Tamar tipped me off to people seeing secondary search boxes in the Google search results. I see them myself now. For example a search on amazon returns this search box directly under the snippet but above the URL". Euuw - ugly!

"Over the weekend, pornographic images and videos began appearing on Google Groups pages, along with infectious malware. About a week ago, Websense said that spammers have had achieved a 20% success rate cracking Google's Captcha system".

"When we engage in social media we don't see immediate, trackable results. But, like branding and customer service, we don't need to. When companies engage in social media they can't think of it as a traditional marketing expense with an ROI".

"I am suggesting there is something in between poverty and stardom. Somewhere lower than bestsellerdom, but higher than the long tail. I don't know the true number, but I think a dedicated artist could cultivate 1,000 True Fans".

Very good feature smack-down between the two product suites, although ultimately I think they are aimed at different customer requirements. Some good stuff in the comments beyond 'M$ sucks man', although that is there as well...