Microsoft Busted For Paid Wikipedia ‘Spamming’
Microsoft has recently come under fire by Wikipedia and its founder Jimmy Wales after it was made public that Microsoft was contacting technical writers and...
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Fox Supoenas YouTube & Google for User Identity
Fox has supoenaed Google’s YouTube to find out which users uploaded episodes of 24 and The Simpsons according to Google Watch’s Steve Bryant. The subpoena...
Google Receives 1,000,000 Job Applications a Year
Here are some amazing numbers, Google receives over 1,000,000 job applications a year and denies 99.5% of them. In 2006 Google hired only 5,000 new...
Yahoo Search Marketing’s New Quality Ranking : Patent Info & How To’s
On Monday February 5th, Yahoo! will be going full speed ahead with the US based relaunch of Yahoo Search Marketing and its new ranking model...
NOFOLLOW Wikipedia to PageRank Zero Campaign
For those of you who missed the big news Sunday & Monday, all outbound Wikipedia links are using a NOFOLLOW tag, which basically means they...
Local.com Acquiring soUno Online Yellow Pages Advertising Firm
Local.com is beginning to make some rather interesting news lately which may help to push them into the local search spotlight (beyond their awesome domain...
Google AdWords Exclusion Tool Now Unlimited : For Contextual Network
There are going to be some very happy Google Adwords advertisers out there as AdWords has beefed up its Site Exclusion Tool to allow the...
‘Secret’ Gmail Delete Mail Keyboard Shortcut
Amit Agarwal has unearthed the holy grail of keyboard shortcuts – the GMail email deletion shortcut. There is a catch however, it only works using...
Google Bringing e-Books to Mobile Devices
Google may be reinventing their Google Book Search offering to be more relevant and practical than reading scanned copies of book pages on the PC....
Google Acquiring AdScape? Video Game Advertising Firm
Google is in talks over the acquisition of AdScape Media reports Steve Bryant eWeek’s Google Watch. AdScape Media specializes in performance based video game advertising...
V7N Contextual Links : Link Buying Service for SEO & Bloggers
V7N announced last week that they have launched a new link buying service which could be seen as a hybrid of Text Link Ads and...
Yahoo Search Indexing Google AdWords Links
Some disturbing news about Yahoo Search and the indexing of Google AdWords links. Seems that the Yahoo index is including Google AdWords and other PPC...
Barack Obama vs. Hillary Clinton vs. John Edwards : Looking at Search Stats
Barack Obama is filing his campaign papers and beginning his exploratory committee which basically means that leading up to the 2008 Presidential Election, Obama, John...
SOAP API : Alternative to Google Search API
Google is not offering feeds to their search results (besides Google Custom Search) and new API keys are no longer available, what’s a web publisher...
Yahoo Answers Adds Stars : Sharing, Votes & Networking
The Flickrization of Yahoo continues… Yahoo Answers has updated with a new sharing system which lets Yahoo Answers users share Questions & Answers they feel...
Google Checkout vs PayPal : JPMorgan Report
JPMorgan as put together an overview of a study they recently undertook where they surveyed over 1,000 consumers to gauge their online spending behavior, adoption...
Don’t Put All of Your Search Marketing Budget in the Google Basket
Yesterday Greg Sterling reminded us all of Google’s search engine dominance and the growth (or decline) of the market share of Yahoo!, Ask.com, Live (MSN)...
Google Pulls Links to Yahoo Maps & MapQuest
In a “why didn’t they do that earlier?” news story of the day we read that Google has taken out the links to Yahoo Maps...
How Blogs Help SEO
Great post from Lee Odden today on how blogs and blogging helps the SEO of a site with a blog, or a business using a...
Google SafeSearch Results for ‘Sex Video’ Block Wikipedia
Was going through my referring keywords today and noticed a rather odd term sending in Google traffic; “sex video.” Knowing that I’ve posted stories about...
Megite : Interview with Matthew Chen of Megite.com
Today I had the chance to speak with Matthew Chen, the co-founder of Megite, which is a real time news aggregation service. You’re probably familiar...
2007 : Year of Google Base
Brian Smith of Comparison Engines has a very indepth post about how he feels Google Base will break out of its shell in Q1 2007...
SponsoredReviews.com Joining Paid Review Services
Another paid blogging review service is popping up soon to join ReviewMe and PayPerPost; SponsoredReviews.com. The service is being launched by Text Link Brokers (no,...
Google AdWords & Domain Parking : Garbage Paid Search?
Richard Ball emailed today to fill us in on the current issues he’s having with a large amount of Google AdWords Paid Search (not contextual)...
Malware Warnings in Google Searches
Chris Boggs points to the Malware Warnings that Google is serving on specific searches which may lead to sites which are peddling malware : While...
YouTube More Popular Than MySpace.com?
Found via Digg, Smaran Dayal looks at an Alexa comparison of YouTube and MySpace over the past six months which shows that although MySpace shows...
Why Yahoo Needs MyBlogLog, and Vice Versa
Yahoo has made another successful and smart social media acquisition in MyBlogLog which can now be added to their list of grassroots early adoption web...
Microsoft Analytics to Challenge Google?
Rumor is floating around that Microsoft is about to come out with a free web analytics service which will rival Google Analytics. The project is...
How to Spam Digg Comments, by Neil Patel
Neil Patel of Pronet Advertising takes the time to remind us all that Digg.com’s homepage is not the only traffic driver on the social news...
Yahoo oneSearch Launches to Redefine Mobile Web Search
Yahoo has launched a new mobile search service dubbed Yahoo oneSearch which Yahoo says takes a different tack towards the displaying of search results on...
4 E-Commerce Digital Marketing Strategies For 2022
Forbes
January 11, 2022
If you manage e-commerce digital marketing campaigns, these strategies can save you time and help grow your traffic, sales and your bottom line. See More
Eight Ways Businesses Are Adopting Innovative Streaming During Social Distancing
Forbes
May 20, 2020
Streaming video technology is more important than ever. See More