November 17th, 2008
Online advertising is not growing, and it has been declining since Q3 2007. TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld has the graphical data to prove that the combined ad revenues of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL account only for 0.6 percent growth from Q2 2008 to Q3 2008. That was coming from a declining trend in ad revenues which started from the Q3 to Q4 of 2007 where the ad revenue rate was at its highest at 12.7 percent. (more…)
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November 17th, 2008
Online advertising is not growing, and it has been declining since Q3 2007. TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld has the graphical data to prove that the combined ad revenues of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL account only for 0.6 percent growth from Q2 2008 to Q3 2008. That was coming from a declining trend in ad revenues which started from the Q3 to Q4 of 2007 where the ad revenue rate was at its highest at 12.7 percent. (more…)
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November 17th, 2008
Black Friday advertisement flyers from Wal-Mart have hit the web early after a leak and Wal-Mart is not only going after the sites that have posted the Black Friday specials, but also the search engines which are indexing or linking to them. Wal-mart’s legal team is targeting sites that have posted the content, claiming a copyright on the content, but now the company is going a step further.
Wal-Mart has issued a takedown notice to SearchAllDeals.com, a search engine and publisher of coupons and other discounts, has received a DMCA takedown notice to SearchAllDeals, which does not even host the content Wal-Mart is claiming breaks copyright law. (more…)
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November 17th, 2008
Google search has now added voice recognition software to their search application on Apple iPhones. Now, iPhone users can request Google results without having to type information on their phones, a must for drivers or those on the go … aren’t phones for speaking and listening anyway?
Google iPhone spoken search will be made available to Apple iPhone and iPod users today via the Apple iTunes store, and will let users ask questions that are not only local directory sensitive (like the 1-800-GOOG-411 experiment) but also basic search questions which request facts or figures. (more…)
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November 17th, 2008
Yesterday, after the news of Sun Microsystems hit the newswires, Yahoo also confirmed that it would be again slicing the size of its workforce, this time by 10%, as Yahoo plans to layoff about 1,500 employees on December 10th.
As the faulty economy is starting to hit the Valley in the same way it has hit most of America, these layoffs are happening at a time when Yahoo stocks have hit a major low of below $10 and Yahoo, according to Kara Swisher at AllThingsD, is about $2 billion away from closing a AOL Yahoo merger with Time Warner. (more…)
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November 17th, 2008
A couple of days ago, Google’s online productivity suite Google Docs and Spreadsheets just turned two years old. And through those two years, we have witness how Google tried their best to improve its features to gain a significant stronghold in the market for online productivity. For a while I thought Google Docs was doing pretty well as I’ve known several people using the online application for collaboration and work-sharing. But I may be wrong as two recent studies, one published by Compete and the other by Clickstream technologies found surprising data and results.
According to the Compete study, although Google Docs & Spreadsheets continue to attract significant number of casual users, these users however don’t stay that long on Google Docs & Spreadsheets service. Of the number of unique visitors of Google Docs and Spreadsheets, only 58% of them actually use one or two of the services available on the site. (more…)
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November 17th, 2008
Microsoft is all over the news headlines today. Aside from the “sweeping” new social features that it is introducing to the Live.com portal, Microsoft also announced the release of the Live Search API which is also known as Project Silk Road. (more…)
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November 17th, 2008
Last May when I covered the Microsoft Live Search Cashback program, I must admit that I found it a bit outrageous as a way for Microsoft to promote its Live Search engine. And I could say that back then, I was not alone in feeling that way about the cashback program. A couple of months later, Microsoft reported that despite not gaining significant traction, the cashback program is still getting good amount of usage as well as traffic to its Live Search portal brought about by the program. (more…)
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November 17th, 2008
Google has introduced a new system to work in conjunction with its already existing Custom Search Engine (CSE).
Since the launch of the CSE, its had a downfall for smaller publishers. The engine couldn’t index the entire site properly. With the introduction of the new system, Google’s CSE is able to index full sites using sitemaps with on-demand flexibility.
Let’s say you are a site with 500 pages, but not a very popular site. Googlebot probably doesn’t index your site fully because it doesn’t think it needs to. But you want to use the Google CSE to offer search functionality on your site for your visitors. You obviously want to be able to offer those visitors the full search experience for any page on your site. Now you can.
Take a look at this video to see how it works :
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November 17th, 2008
A blog is an awesome networking tool. Beside multiple obvious benefits (interacting with your audience, content link building, etc), there are a few more creative ways to build links with your blog.
Blog carnivals
A blog carnival is a regular topical event connecting multiple blogging based on a chosen theme. A blog carnival often includes a number of participants (most of them get credits i form of links and new niche connections):
- the blog carnival organizer: if you are an established voice in your niche, you can organize your own blog carnival and get plenty of awareness;
- blog host - the one who publishes the link collection (posts chosen to take part in the carnival) on his own blog and also generates multiple links from the thankful participants;
- bloggers: those who write posts on the carnival topic and submit them for inclusion (and get links at least from the blog host site).
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