New Google Panda Update Rolling Out Now: What Changes Are Webmasters Seeing?

Despite Google stating they would no longer confirm any of the rolling Panda updates, they seem to have gone back on that and confirmed that yes a new Panda began going live on July 18. However, unlike many of the previous Panda updates, many webmasters have noticed that it does not have as wide of an impact as previous updates.

Matt Cutts has previously stated?that Panda updates would rollout over course of 10 days each month, to soften the impact that it has on webmasters when the change happens at once. However, this does make a lot more difficult for webmasters to sometimes determine what is a normal fluctuation and what is actually a new Panda rollout.

For those who actively monitor search key phrases, there is definitely been a lot of fluctuation even on an hourly basis. Some sites will rank for a specific keyword phrase, vanishing hour later, and the return sometimes in relatively the same position other times completely different result pages even.

A lot of people in their Google Webmaster Tools data have noticed that they are getting some definite increase in the number of impressions that they are displaying, but the traffic has remained stable. This is raising the question if Google Webmaster Tools is somehow measuring impressions differently or if there is something else that would account for such an increase in impressions while the click throughs are static.

Something that is noticeable is that a lot of informational sites, both large ones and small ones are being heavily impacted with this new rollout. This includes the big names of the informational sites, such as Wikipedia, and about.com where there are definite changes happening in their rankings.

Google has previously stated that they want to give authority sites a bit more prominence in the search results. Of course, that also means that they need to update their signals in the search algorithm on how Google is determining what is authority versus what are simply spam sites mimicking the authority. This update seems to be targeting authoritative sites ? and more specifically what should be considered an authority website and what shouldn?t be.

There has also been a bit of chatter that sites that have fared better in this update are active in using Google+. Some sites that saw a decline in rankings have seen them restored or increased in this new rollout when Google+ activity for the site has been done. While this does make people a bit wary that Google is rewarding sites that are on Google+, it has been no secret that it is one of the signals that many believe have has impact on the ranking algorithm.

There is also speculation that some sites that have gotten caught in a previous Panda update, where they have received warnings for unnatural linking, that some of those impacted sites are now ranking again. The member CaptainSalad2 on WebmasterWorld?stated a site began ranking again after removing the disavow links that was submitted the same day the tool was originally released last year, which was also the only change made to that site.

While this latest the Google panda update seems to be of a much softer impact than we have seen from previous updates, it is also worth noting that these rollouts generally occur over 10 days and we are only two days into that. So we definitely could see more fluctuations in search results over the next 10 days while Google watches to see how this new update is impacting the search results, particularly spam and authority sites, and then continue to rollout the update and also tweak the algorithm accordingly.

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Gala celebrates Manatee Performing Arts Center opening

?? After nearly five months, a couple of musicals, a movie and some private events, the Manatee Performing Arts Center is finally ready for its grand opening.


?? On Aug. 3, the Manatee Players will host a Crystal Gala to celebrate the grand opening of the center at 502 Third Ave. W. in downtown Bradenton. The gala starts at 5:30 p.m. and?will include a reception with hors d?oeuvres and an open bar, followed by entertainment from John and Alexandra Nock, who are contestants on "America's Got Talent" this season. After the performance, dinner prepared by Pier 22 will be served, followed live music and dancing.?
?? The Manatee Performing Arts Center opened in March with a production of "Miss Saigon." The Manatee Players' first full season in the center begins Aug. 8 with "Les Miserables."

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Former boss disputes Tourre's description of mortgage deal

By Nate Raymond

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fabrice Tourre's former boss at Goldman Sachs distanced himself on Thursday from the way Tourre described hedge fund Paulson & Co Inc's role in a 2007 subprime mortgage deal.

Tourre, on trial in federal court in New York, is accused of misleading investors in the deal. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has said the former Goldman Sachs bond trader told investors that Paulson & Co was investing in the deal when in fact it was betting against it.

In court on Thursday, the SEC submitted a January 2007 email sent by Tourre in which he described Paulson & Co as "transaction sponsor" of the deal, a synthetic collateralized debt obligation known as Abacus 2007-AC1.

Tourre's boss at the time, Jonathan Egol, said he normally would reserve that description for an investor in a CDO rather than use it to describe an entity, like Paulson & Co, with a short position.

"I wouldn't customarily have used the term 'transaction sponsor' in that way," said Egol, a managing director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

On cross-examination, though, Egol conceded that "transaction sponsor" isn't a defined industry term.

The testimony came on the fourth day of the trial in the SEC's case against Tourre, 34, the sole remaining defendant in a lawsuit that Goldman Sachs settled for $550 million in 2010.

The meaning of the email could be a key issue in the case. It was sent by Tourre to an executive at ACA Capital Holdings Inc, another participant in the deal, which the SEC has said was also misled by Tourre about Paulson & Co's role.

According to the SEC's case, Goldman told investors in Abacus that ACA Capital Holdings selected the securities in the deal, while in fact the investments were mainly picked by Paulson & Co.

Tourre's lawyers, who will start calling their witnesses next week, have sought to show it was common knowledge in financial markets that Paulson & Co was betting against subprime mortgages.

Egol's statements, which seemed to bolster the SEC's case, came the day after another witness said he told the same ACA executive that Paulson planned to short Abacus.

The witness, former Paulson & Co Managing Director Paolo Pellegrini, said he believed he told Laura Schwartz, the primary ACA employee on the deal, "what we were trying to accomplish by shorting the market.

After Pellegrini's testimony, which appeared to undercut the SEC's case, the SEC reshuffled its witnesses to bump up the testimony of former Goldman saleswoman Gail Kreitman, who is expected to testify as early as Friday.

The SEC has indicated it plans to introduce a recording of Kreitman telling an ACA employee that Goldman was "placing a hundred percent of the equity" with Paulson.

In a letter sent to the judge late Wednesday, the SEC said Kreitman could testify that while she does not recall specifically who gave her that false information, "the most likely source" was Tourre.

U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest, though, said Thursday she did not want "the witness to guess, unless she can remember Mr. Tourre told her that."

"I don't see any basis for her to connect the dots the jury should connect," Forrest said.

During cross-examination Thursday, Egol said Goldman Sachs actually lost money on Abacus.

Goldman earned $15 million in fees on the Abacus deal, the SEC says. But Egol said by the end of 2007 the firm had lost $80 million to $90 million due to exposure it had to Abacus.

The case is SEC v. Tourre, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 10-03229.

(Reporting by Nate Raymond; Editing by Eddie Evans and Douglas Royalty)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/former-boss-disputes-tourres-description-mortgage-deal-202238632.html

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Bernanke comments keep markets firm

LONDON (AP) ? Stocks continued to rise Thursday on the Federal Reserve's promise to extend its stimulus policies if necessary and upbeat U.S. economic and corporate earnings reports.

In prepared remarks to lawmakers in Congress, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said Wednesday that the Fed's timetable for reducing its bond purchases was not decided and that the central bank could even boost them if the economy fails to meet expectations.

The Fed wants to see substantial progress in the job market before scaling back its $85 billion a month in purchase of government bonds and other financial assets, he said.

Expectations the Fed might start tapering off its stimulus in September caused market jitters last month. So his clarification this week that he was not pre-committed to a schedule encouraged investors.

In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of British shares was up 0.9 percent to 6,632.39 while Germany's DAX rose 0.5 percent to 8,295.44. The CAC-40 in France gained 0.9 percent to 3,904.89.

Wall Street opened higher, with the S&P 500 up 0.3 percent at 1,686.56 and the Dow 0.5 percent higher at 15,544.42.

Also supporting markets was news that U.S. jobless claims fell 24,000 last week to 334,000, a sign of steady job gains.

Corporate earnings were mixed. Morgan Stanley shares rose 3.7 percent, boosting financial stocks, after its second-quarter profits beat expectations. But Nokia shares slid 4 percent as its sales continued to drop sharply.

Google and Microsoft are due to announce results later. The focus will also return to Bernanke, who will continue his testimony to the Senate.

In Asia, Japan's Nikkei 225 rose 1.3 percent to 14,808.50, its highest close in two months, but gains elsewhere in the region were much more modest. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 added 0.2 percent to 4,993.40. Shares in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India and Singapore were also higher.

China-related shares were mostly lower, reflecting gloom over news earlier in the week that the world's second-largest economy posted its second straight quarter of slower economic growth in April-June.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng shed early gains to fall into negative territory, losing 0.1 percent to 21,345.22. Benchmarks in mainland China and Taiwan also were lower. The Shanghai Composite dropped 1.1 percent to 2,023.40.

"The slowdown of growth in China is still the main concern," said Linus Yip, a strategist at First Shanghai Securities in Hong Kong.

In other markets, the benchmark crude contract for August delivery was up 64 cents at $107.12 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 48 cents on Wednesday.

The euro fell to $1.3076 from $1.3117 late Wednesday. The dollar rose to 100.46 yen from 99.62 yen.

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Elaine Kurtenbach in Tokyo contributed to this report.

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NYU Faculty Demand Martin Lipton's Resignation As Board Of Trustees Chairman

A group of New York University faculty are demanding in an open letter released Tuesday that Martin Lipton, chairman of the institution's board of trustees, resign from the position he's held for 14 years.

NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan, a group of more than 400 faculty members, has vocally opposed the university's expansion effort, and on Tuesday issued a lengthy letter laying out their grievances with Lipton and NYU president John Sexton, touching on a slew of controversies from the past few years.

"This is not a step that we take lightly," the group wrote. "We are well aware of your long dedication to NYU's betterment, and your many services on its behalf. It is because, as faculty, we share your dedication to the university that we feel obliged to take this step -- and to explain, precisely, why we are now taking it."

Sexton already received a vote of no confidence from five schools at NYU, but the board has responded with nothing but support for the embattled president. The faculty group writing the letter said they are not optimistic that anything will change under Lipton's leadership, due to his "closeness" to Sexton, and because Lipton has "ignored us just as Pres. Sexton has done all along."

The letter complains about the growth of non-tenured faculty, that NYU's acceptance rate is five to six times higher than that of Ivy League universities like Harvard and Columbia, and that class sizes at the institution are comparable to state universities. "While this trend makes money ... it also makes us less selective than a first-rate university must be," they wrote, suggesting that NYU was being run more like a corporation rather than a university.

"This maldistribution, and the lowering of academic standards, are consequences of the corporate style of management imposed on NYU aggressively since 2002," the group said, adding that "NYU's richest stars' overcompensation is more heinous, as its source is not the profit from essential goods (software; oil and gas) but NYU's exorbitant tuition, and the crippling debt that often pays for it."

NYU spokesman John Beckman was dismayed the group had issued the letter "attacking" Lipton.

"At a time when the Trustees and John Sexton have made improving dialogue with the faculty such a priority and have taken concrete and productive new steps to ensure greater faculty participation in decision-making, it is perplexing that this group would send such a letter," Beckman said. "The Trustees hope that all the faculty choose to join in the constructive efforts underway to enhance University governance rather than attacking individual members of the NYU community."

The majority of the NYU Board of Trustees have worked in real estate, finance, health insurance and pharmaceuticals, as attorneys or company executives. Lipton is a founding partner at a law firm specializing in corporate policy and acquisitions.

Andrew Ross, president of the American Association of University Professors NYU chapter, told HuffPost in June he believes the business practices from Wall Street are influencing the trustees' decision making.

"NYU is the closest large university [to Wall Street]. It's clear a lot of those practices have spilled over," Ross said. "A lot of the contagion from Wall Street is clear -- vacation homes, compensation packages -- that's the kind of thing that's standard in that world."

According to the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, more than half of governing board members nationwide have a background in business, compared to one-eighth who come from education.

"Private colleges and universities also need to do a lot of fundraising, and usually they're looking for at least some of the board members to make major gifts or be able to help the institution connect to major donors," Merrill Schwartz, vice president for AGB Consulting, told HuffPost. "I'm sure that's a major consideration for NYU as well."

Schwartz also noted governing boards are "definitely concerned" about the rate of change in the world, and the pace of change in technology. "Academic decision-making is something that's not well known for speed," Schwartz said.

These kinds of disputes could continue due to "a growing disconnect between faculty senates and boards of trustees," the Chronicle of Higher Education notes. Ted Magder, departing chair of the NYU Faculty Senators Council, suggested, "As power becomes more centralized, the disconnect between faculty and those with decision-making authority is likely to grow."

This post has been updated with comment from NYU.

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