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Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are staging the web
We talk about staging homes here on ActiveRain, a big part of home staging is de-cluttering. The good news Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are getting together for some spring cleaning and de-cluttering of the web.
"Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Collaborate to Clean Up Web" by reporter Miguel Helft in the Bits Column on the New York Times site quotes Matt Cutts:
"There is a lot of clutter on the Web and with this, publishers will be able to clean up a lot of junk,” said Matt Cutts, an engineer who heads Google’s spam fighting efforts. “I think it is going to gain traction pretty quickly.”
This is not about fighting malicious spam on the web though, it is about naturally occurring "duplicate content," non malicious duplication that the search engines sort through the best they can, now. They've just decided to collaborate and use a new tool to de-clutter the web.  The Big Three (search engines that is...) are cooperating  to sort through the kind of duplicate content that is not trying to game the search engines. 
It's a new web standard.  I first read about the collaboration on Search Engine Land in "Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Unite On “Canonical Tag” ... more

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