Subject: In this issue:
Wikipedia, Google Earth, & Google Bomb
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Ron Foreman
Helping entrepreneurs and not-for-profits to exploit
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Feb 10, 2006 - No. 1
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If you're having trouble keeping up with what's happening
on the Internet perhaps this newsletter will help. This
edition includes articles on Wikipedia, Google Earth, and
Googlebombing. |
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Wikipedia is a multilingual Web-based free-
content encyclopedia wiki service. Wikipedia is written
collaboratively by volunteers, allowing most articles to be
changed by anyone with access to a web
browser.
The project began on January 15, 2001, as a complement
to the expert-written Nupedia and is now operated by the
non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia has more than
3,210,000 articles, including more than 950,000 in the
English-language version, and as of January 2006 it has more
than 863,000 registered users. Since its inception, Wikipedia
has steadily risen in popularity,[1] and its success has
spawned several sister projects. There has, however, been
controversy over its reliability.
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Google Earth is a free virtual globe formerly known as Earth
Viewer. It was developed by Keyhole, Inc., which was acquired by
Google in 2004. The product was renamed Google Earth in 2005 and is
currently available for use on personal computers running Mac OS X
Tiger and Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP. A Linux version has been
announced for 2006.
Google Earth overlays satellite imagery, aerial photography
and GIS information over a 3D model of the Earth (3D building models
are currently only available for cities in the USA). In the USA the
software has recently been used by CNN for graphics on the large
screens in The Situation Room [1]. In Canada, the software has been
used by Global National for graphics pertaining to locations of news
stories.
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Go
to www.google.ca.
Type in "french military victories". Hit "I'm feeling Lucky". Go to
www.google.ca.
Type in "miserable failure". Hit "I'm feeling
Lucky"
These are examples of Googlebombs. A Googlebomb is an attempt
to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by
Google. Due to the way that Google's PageRank algorithm works, a
page will be ranked higher if many sites link to it. A Googlebomb is
created when a large number of sites link to a page. Googlebomb is
used both as a verb and a noun. Source: Wikipedia
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topics included in future newsletters please email me. Having
technical problems with your website? Email me a description of your
problem and I will do my best to give you a solution. In the next
issue: Content Management Systems (CMS), Managing photos and video,
and Web 2.0.
Sincerely,
Ron Foreman
phone: 647-999-8543
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