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"Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) on Monday announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn …

They acquired part of Bing's Mapping Assets alongside ~100 employees - http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/29/uber-acquires-part-of-bings... and http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB11064341213…

There was an EMD (Exact Match Domain) update in September 2012 to fix this.

To remove that & avoid logging in / registering, just add "?share=1" to the end of the URL.

Don't want to be that guy but 4-5 years for enterprise startups "to get to this point" which I'm assuming is either that market cap size or IPO is ambitious - Enterprise startups t…

Beyond looking at the implications for Net Neutrality (since we don't really know the implications of this deal going forward in relation to this); for people who are wondering why…

Based on a question answered by PG on Askolo, YCombinator track them[1]: Q: Have there been any startups you've later regretted rejecting from YCombinator? A: Sure, several. But I …

Yes and No. Essentially Kara/Walt and WSJ/Dow Jones/NewsCorp "divorced". The "divorce" left Kara/Walt with the writers (as they were employed by them) and WSJ/Dow Jones/NewsCorp th…

How is that not fair? "My personal belief is that, devaluing the site for the BRAND term e.g. [rap genius] actually devalues Google's quality. On the other side of the coin, if som…

If only HN allowed Comic Sans

Sponsored Posts are what Google calls advertorials and considered to be a link scheme[1] which means they're against their webmaster guidelines[2]. However, they're acceptable if t…

Reddit tried to resolve it through, a code level setting of the lang within their source code. However, Google ignores all code-level language information including lang attributes…

Is there any reason a website owner should act and remove the links? Surely it's not my/our problem? You should only remove links if they do not provide any value to your audience.…

Good in that it will be temporary: specifically 30 days. Please don't preach about SEO if you know nothing about it or aren't up-to-date with how SEO works because, this is complet…

The people who are claiming that do not know anything about SEO. They're pulling figures from fresh air. For instance, in the case of JC Penney[1] it took them 90 days to recover f…

"They should care about delivering the best quality search results to their users, and nothing else" That's why they focus on Bad SEO because it means that they won't be showing th…

Not going into all the regulation talk (partly because don't believe that Google needs regulation as another search engine is just an address bar/couple of clicks away) but with re…

"restores at least some of the startup’s search result ranking juice in exchange for it cleaning up its act" As I tweeted to Josh on Twitter[1] this actually happens to all sites o…

how does TechCrunch have any Google rank then? How do most tech publications, for that matter? TechCrunch does not post advertorials, they post content for free and they actually p…

It's not different. As mentioned earlier, paying for links is against one of Google's Webmaster Guidelines[1] and your example specifically falls under the Link Scheme[2] category …

Essentially Rap Genius violated one of Google's Webmaster Guidelines[1] by attempting to manipulate the SERPs through getting webmasters to link to several lyrics pages in exchange…

In that example they should still rank for "lyrics.com" which would be the BRAND term. Google actually have done an EMD update to devalue sites trying to rank for generics using a …