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Google search change hits investor relations sites

Google search change hits investor relations sites

By Dominic Jones on February 28, 2011

A MAJOR change to Google’s search algorithm to weed out “low-quality” websites has hit investor relations departments as many hosted IR websites and the largest PR wire service appear to have had their rankings cut.

Posted in IR News, Online IR | Tagged search engines, SEO, visibility

Did Google Finance just get big?

By Dominic Jones on March 21, 2007

GOOGLE Finance, the investing website that has yet to make a real impact in the year since it was launched, has just gotten a major boost with an important change to Google’s main search results pages. Now when people search the main Google site for public company names, they will see an option to preview [...]

Posted in IR News | Tagged google finance, search engines, Yahoo Finance

Information explosion: implications for publishers

By Dominic Jones on March 6, 2007

THERE’s a new report out from technology research firm IDC saying the world is pumping out digital information so fast that we will soon run out of room to store it. Terms like “exabytes” and “terrabytes” and “zettabytes” are used to describe the looming data deluge. SiliconValleyWatcher’s Tom Foremski is dubious of the claim that [...]

Posted in Online IR | Tagged search engines, technology, web credibility

IR website vendors are failing IROs

By Dominic Jones on February 23, 2007

By Dominic Jones IT TAKES less than 30 seconds for anyone with a browser to set up a website and start publishing and building an audience. They have immediate access to a vast array of free tools to incorporate into their websites, from free email alerts to free video, even free stock charts and market [...]

Posted in Articles, Communications | Tagged content management systems, IE7, management, Model for Corporate Website Management, online communications, search engines, SEC, seekingalpha, shareholder.com, technology, thomson financial, transcripts, YouTube

How to fix your company’s Wikipedia entry

By Dominic Jones on January 25, 2007

WIKIPEDIA, the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is one of the Web’s most popular websites. As such, it is also extremely influential, which means that a lot people have a vested interest in what it says about a wide range of topics.

Posted in Online IR, Social Media | Tagged ExxonMobil, Google, Microsoft Corp., search engines, wikipedia

SEC’s New Edgar Search Useful for IROs. Is RSS Next?

By Dominic Jones on November 15, 2006

AFTER a short time in testing, the Securities and Exchange Commission has flicked the switch to make its powerful new Edgar full-text search public. I used the beta version a few times and found it extraordinarily efficient to be able to search filings by keyword. I hope other regulators are paying attention. For IROs, this [...]

Posted in IR News | Tagged EDGAR, feeds, rss, search engines, SEC, XBRL

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