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Search Engine Strategies & Email Spam
I’m a big fan of Search Engine Strategies Conferences on Search Engine Marketing and try to attend and cover all of them that I can....
Topix.net & Tribune Partner for Classifieds Project
Who knows what’s going to happen to the Tribune Company (as it tries to sell itself). But for the time being it has taken a...
LinkedIn takes on Xing, or the other way around?!
I wanted to follow up on my post LinkedIn versus Xing (aka Open BC) from November earlier, but did not get around to it until...
Last week in China – Google Net Negative and again MySpace
Last week was about the latest China internet Statistics. The China Internet Network Society (CNNIC) published its half yearly report (In Chinese). The number of...
Congratulations Danny
Matt McGee from SmallBusinessSEM.com noticed at the end of last week that Google had a major update of the PageRank data for the Google browser...
ShoeMoney Subpoenaed Over Slanderous Blog Comments
Jeremy Schoemaker, an A List blogger who is also known as ShoeMoney, contacted me yesterday and discussed a recent legal document which was served to...
A Link Is Not A Vote, It’s A Pointer
Loren’s note about the article by Graywolf that talks about Google’s changing and unwritten policy on the usage of the nofollow tag got me thinking...
Weather.com Yahoo! Search Box
Weather.com is the site maintained by cable television’s Weather Channel and usually my first stop when it comes to checking the weather. I noticed that...
Hillary Clinton, Yahoo Answers & the Power of Social Media
Hillary Clinton has turned to Yahoo Answers, the social media driven Q&A experience from Yahoo, to look for some ideas on how normal Americans would...
MySpace.com & Yahoo Top Sites People Spend Most Time On
Compete.com just published a blog entry ranking the top 20 sites which Internet users waste their time on. The first two are predictable, MySpace.com and...
Matt Cutts vs. V7N Links : Matt Wins
Over the past day some jabs and nudges were traded back and forth (all in good fun I believe) between Matt Cutts and John Scott...
Branded Content and Targeting Your Social Media Marketing Initiatives
As a former editor I love to see this growing fervor around social media marketing. I remember some heady days at WebProNews when we got...
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...
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...
China Has 137 Million Users That Need a Purified Environment
The number of internet users is up to 137 million according to the latest report from the China Internet Networking Information Center. A report released...
SimplyHired Job-a-Matic Syndication Strategy
SimplyHired (and its competitors Indeed, among a couple others like Oodle) promise to take the pain and inefficiency out of searching for a job by...
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...
Yahoo! Q4 Earnings Beat Estimates
Here’s the partial release text (full text here): SUNNYVALE, Calif. – January 23, 2007 – Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) today reported results for the fourth...
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 AdSense Video Content Expanding
From Reuters and the AdSense blog: Over the next few weeks we’ll be testing AdSense video distribution and sponsorship with a small group of publishers....
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...
2006 Chinese Internet Data : Advertising, Search Engines & Blogs
The Internet speed has been slowly improving in China but the latest news is that the final repairs will be finished half way February instead...
All Wikipedia Links Are Now NOFOLLOW
I blogged about the Wikipedia Issues with SPAM and the discussions about the use of NOFOLLOW for ALL external Links from Wikipedia. It was done, finally....
Google & Yahoo Outdoor Kiosks and Advertising
ClickZ and Bill Slawski discuss Google patent filings related to local kioks and billboards (at malls). From the ClickZ article: Google said the system would...