Google Delivers A Punishing Blow To How-To Sites The algorithm strikes back, sort of. As Barry Schwartz pointed out today over at Search Engine Land, Google’s now quite detailed knowledge graph has started to return step by step instructions on searches, similar to those you might find on a how-to site like eHow or Ask.com. Here’s a quick example of what we found: In some cases, Google’s answer box only displays ...
Weekly Review and Outlook: Fed Sent Stocks to Records and Weighed Down Dollar, Canadian Dollar Shone Dollar ended the week generally lower except versus the Japanese yen and Aussie even though Fed continued with tapering of the asset purchases. Markets seemed to have ignored the slight upward revision on FOMC member's rate forecasts, but were more focus on Yellen's message of keeping rates low for extended time. The sentiments also sent stocks higher with DOW and S&P 500 hitting ...
Stocks open at new highs Stocks pushed to new highs in early trading Thursday as the so-called "Yellen bounce" continues after yesterday's Federal Reserve meeting. The Dow Jones industrial average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were all modestly higher in early trading, but they quickly returned to breakeven. The gains come after comments from Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen gave stocks a boost Wednesday. ...
The 4 Stages Of Chinese Growth From the early 1980s until now, China has grown at a pace not matched since the four decades Argentina enjoyed before the First World War. In spite of some fairly goofy attempts a few years ago, however, to characterize China during this period as having followed a set of policies called the "Beijing Consensus", these decades did not involve a unified set of policies, or a set of related polices, that Beijing implemented ...
In the Euro Zone, Recession Is Not Quite Over, Economists Say Many people probably thought the euro zone recession ended about a year ago when output began growing again. Not so, a group of leading economists argued this week. Growth is still too weak and unemployment too high to declare the recession over, economists at the Center for European Policy Research said. At best, they said, the recession that began in 2011 is merely ...
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