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If you live in a rich country, the Internet has probably changed the way you consume (and produce) information. But when you look at global-scale knowledge production, things are as they ever were: the Anglophone world dominates with the United States doing the lion's share of academic and user-generated publishing.

Those are the messages of the Oxford Internet Institute's new e-book, Geographies of the World's Knowledge, from which these two graphics were drawn. The book's authors, Corinne Flick of the Convoco Foundation and the Institute's Mark Graham and Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, reluctantly conclude that the Internet has not delivered on the hopes that it would make knowledge "more accessible."

"Many commentators speculated that [the Internet] would allow people outside of industrialised nations to gain access to all networked and codified knowledge, thus mitigating the traditionally concentrated nature of information production and consumption," they write. "These early expectations remain largely unrealised."

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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -03/26/12)- The majority of Chinese internet stocks are coming off a difficult week as concerns about China's economic growth stalled an impressive early 2012 rally. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, in his annual state-of-the nation report to China's parliament, forecast 2012 growth of 7.5%. That would be the slowest pace of expansion since 1990 and well down on last year's 9.2% growth rate. Five Star Equities examines investing opportunities in China's Internet Sector and provides Stock research on Sina Corporation (NASDAQ: SINA - News) and Renren Inc. (NYSE: RENN - News). Access to the full company reports can be found at:

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Before last week, Chinese internet stocks were on an impressive run as a large uptick in social network users is expected to boost profits throughout the sector. "China's Internet stocks, especially the bigger names like Sina and Baidu, still have lots of room for growth going forward," Agnes Deng, a Hong Kong-based portfolio manager said in an interview with Bloomberg.

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Last week The Daily Mail reported that leaders in China have blocked all internet reports of an alleged attempted coup. These reports came on the heels of the dismissal of Communist Party politburo member and Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai. While online reports are being closely monitored by the international intelligence communities, including the US and Britain, the Chinese position of not commenting on internal matters has left many guessing.

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Chinese Internet Stocks Stall on Growth Concerns

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -03/26/12)- The majority of Chinese internet stocks are coming off a difficult week as concerns about China's economic growth stalled an impressive early 2012 rally. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, in his annual state-of-the nation report to China's parliament, forecast 2012 growth of 7.5%. That would be the slowest pace of expansion since 1990 and well down on last year's 9.2% growth rate. Five Star Equities examines investing opportunities in China's Internet Sector and provides Stock research on Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU - News) and E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc. (NYSE: DANG - News). Access to the full company reports can be found at:

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Before last week, Chinese internet stocks were on an impressive run as a large uptick in social network users is expected to boost profits throughout the sector. "China's Internet stocks, especially the bigger names like Sina and Baidu, still have lots of room for growth going forward," Agnes Deng, a Hong Kong-based portfolio manager said in an interview with Bloomberg.

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Last week, Baidu signed an agreement with leading earth imaging solution provider DigitalGlobe in order to provide increased functionality to Baidu Maps users. Dongchen Zhang, head of business development at Baidu, says, "With this agreement, Baidu can offer new ways for users to engage with the Internet while continuing to solidify Baidu's presence at the heart of China's Internet ecosystem."

Online Chinese retailer Dangdang, the owner of China's largest online bookstore, has indicated they expect increased mergers and acquisitions in China's online retail market primarily driven by increased difficulty in acquiring financing from capital markets, according to Dangdang CFO Conor Yang.

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Chinese Internet Stocks Have Room for Growth

There is some chatter and discussion in the Bing and Yahoo WebmasterWorld forums that an update is happening or started happening a few days ago.

Senior members are taking notice and one said:

At first I thought maybe it was just a hiccup but then I saw additional comments from webmasters and then a thread on a change at Yahoo, which uses Bing's index. That post said:

The issue with this Yahoo post is that this same webmaster is claiming their traffic is up in Bing, which doesn't make too much sense to me. Typically, the results you find in Bing are the same as the ones you find in Yahoo.

In any event, I looked at my own traffic on some sites and there does seem to be slight changes in traffic in Yahoo and Bing and those traffic changes seem to correlate between the two in the same date range.

Here is an example for the past few days on one of my sites with Bing and Yahoo traffic overlaid:

Did you notice an update?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

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Bing (Yahoo) Search Update - March 2012?

Im sure that most of you know or have heard of Matt Cutts at Google. For those who dont, Cutts is the head of the web Spam team at Google. That is to say, Cutts works diligently to ensure that Googles search results are good and he polices efforts by folks who try to (overtly) manipulate Googles results through overly aggressive search engine optimization (SEO) tactics.

I want to say upfront that Cutts is a nice guy. Sincerely. Thats not me trying to get in his good graces.Cutts helps, in many ways, to guide folks in the proper way to market their websites, and goes out of his way to provide helpful information.

Matt provides information via his blog, provides insight via the GoogleWebmasterHelp channel on YouTube, his Twitter feed, countless conferences, and too many other channels for me to list here. I have no freaking clue how this guy does all of this and manages to have a life.

But, somehow he does, and somehow he manages to be smiling, everysingletimethat I see him. So, kudos to him.

With that said, here comes my beef... At SXSW, Cutts was quoted assaying (emphasis mine):

"We try to make the GoogleBot smarter, try to make our relevance more adaptive, so that if people don't do SEO we handle that.And we are also looking at the people who abuse it, who put too many keywords on a page, exchange way too many links, or whatever else they are doing to go beyond what you normally expect. We have several engineers on my team working on this right now."

Notice that bolded sentence?

This may lead folks to begin the charge of SEO is dead," once again. I really hope not, because this won't cause SEO to flatline.

At the same event, Cutts also said that Google is trying to level the playing field from those who are excessive in their methods of trying to optimize their websites versus those websites who should be rewarded by creating quality content.

Thats my main point.

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How Google ‘Handles’ SEO: My Beef With Matt Cutts