Archive for 'Culture'

How To Do Good on the Internet

One of Enquiro’s core values is to make the world better by contributing to the community. This topic was delved into at Northern Voice by Darren Barefoot, who led a great session on how we can do good deeds online (he also took a little time to bash Luongo). Good deeds don’t necessitate spending money. They can be as simple as retweeting a valuable post or liking something on Facebook – just spreading the message can help to advance social causes. Here are six websites Darren highlighted that are creatively allowing for people to contribute to social issues: -          Procrasdonate [...]

Buy & Sell Slaves on eBay…or dynamic keyword insertion gone wild

eBay and Google have been getting some attention lately after someone in the UK noticed that a search on Google for “African slaves” served up a search results page that included an ad from eBay for “African slaves”. Is this a case of eBay and Google being evil? No, it’s a case of sloppy dynamic keyword insertion (DKI). And eBay doesn’t restrict its poor ad management to just Google. Take, for example, this screenshot from a search originating in Canada for “slaves” on Bing, taken this morning. Apparently eBay has “Fantastic prices on Slaves. Buy & Sell today”. OK, even [...]