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Search Round-Up: September 24, 2010

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Search engine news imageEvery week, our search news round-up brings you the latest web marketing developments in everything from search engine optimization to pay-per-click advertising. Here are the biggest stories this week:

Wikipedia Introduces Article Assessment Feature

Online collective encyclopedia Wikipedia is testing an article assessment tool as part of its Public Policy Initiative to ensure higher quality site content. With the new feature, readers can rate articles on several criteria, including sourcing, completeness, neutrality and readability. (Read More)

Google Places/Maps Allows Rich Snippets

The Google LatLong Blog and Google Webmaster Center announced yesterday that Google Maps/Places can now support rich snippets of data, including reviews, people and events, to make local search results more contextual. (Read More)

Google Handing out Mobile Devices to U.S. Businesses to Encourage Check-ins, Reviews

Google is reportedly distributing 8 million custom mobile devices to U.S. small businesses. These devices, which can be used by customers to check in to, rate and write reviews of businesses, are designed to contend with popular check-in services on Foursquare, Yelp and Facebook. (Read More)

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Wikipedia Introduces Article Assessment Feature

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Wikipedia logoOnline collective encyclopedia Wikipedia is testing an article assessment tool as part of its Public Policy Initiative to ensure higher quality site content. With the new feature, readers can rate articles on several criteria, including sourcing, completeness, neutrality and readability.

As Wikipedia wrote in its technical blog, “The goal of the project is to improve the quality of public policy-related articles. Comparing standard community self-assessment processes, opinion sought from external experts, and article feedback from readers (with the test tool) will help to provide the community with a better understanding of the strengths and limits of each system.”

The new article assessment tool became available to the public Wednesday on selected Wikipedia articles. No official word on if or when the developing tool will get a wider release.

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