Paid Clicks are Dead. Long Live Paid Clicks!

February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

According to comScore, Google’s paid search click volume fell 7% in January, from the previous month, and were relatively flat with the same period last year. Industry pundits, economists, and search experts are fervent with the data, citing everything from a slow month, to validation of a recession, to the downfall of society!
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Feb

6

Yahoo, Microsoft, Google oh my! (part 2 - the acquisition)

February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment

As questions whirl about the bid from Microsoft to acquire Yahoo!, I’m still astounded at how the focus of the media is on Search and what such a merger of traditional technology and internet behemoths will mean for Yahoo’s share of search relative to Google. The fact is, Google’s core technology and search science [...]

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Jan

5

Easily Add Video to your Site - Google Adsense Links to YouTube

January 5, 2008 | 1 Comment

This is old news but I’ve finally had a chance to take a look and I’m enthusiastic about the potential. Google Adsense has integrated YouTube video to bring web sites and publishers a sponsored video service which automatically features relevant videos based on the content of your site.
“A new way to enrich your site [...]

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Nov

8

Improving Search through Google’s Distributed File System

November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment

For those of you interested my post last month about how search engines really work, Doug Judd has written a slightly technical brief about the Google File System and specifically, how it can be improved. Doug is leading an open-source project which builds on top of distributed file systems like GFS, HDFS, and Kosmos, [...]

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Oct

9

How Search Engines Work

October 9, 2007 | 5 Comments

About a week ago, Kosmix, one of the few emerging businesses doing anything significant in Search, announced the release of a search technology that gives them a significant advantage in the search space: the Kosmos File System.
With all our talk of algorithms and indexes, I’m sure you realize that an engine isn’t as simple as [...]

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Jun

11

Google’s Website Quality Guidelines

June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment

At the inaugural SMX Advanced conference in Seattle last week, Matt Cutts discussed Google’s webmaster guidelines but failed to address heavily sought detail on site quality considerations and violations that can result in your being punished by Google (whether your intentions are honorable or otherwise). He did though commit to deliver more insight and [...]

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May

21

Acquisitions Keep On Rollin’

May 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Will the madness ever end?!?
Microsoft is picking up online advertising vendor aQuantive Inc. for about $6 billion in cash almost doubling the Google’s price for Doubleclick
We’re not done there though with rumors flying the Google is adding RSS syndication vendor (and personal favorite) Feedburner to their roster. Following Yahoo’s brilliant pick up of MyBlogLog, [...]

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