If you have 2 minutes with a customer, and the law required that you show a random sampling of your links to customer prospects, would you happily show the link to a target customer? This article represents my opinions, but my company has worked on...
Negative media attention is also present for Mitt Romney, as a single ride on the roof of the car for his Irish Setter Seamus almost 30 years ago receives more attention than any of his law initiatives as an elected official.
It's not just one regulation or law that has yet to be interpreted for two-way digital channels, but many, and some are easier to apply than others. These industries - which include pharmaceuticals and healthcare, financial services and insurance...
Content creators, law professors, copyright holders, philosophers, the MPAA, and the RIAA, there’s a place at the table for them,” Hedger said. Smith said in response to the White House’s show of opposition to the bill in its current form, "It is...
"The law of unintended consequences is an adage or idiomatic warning that an intervention in a complex system always creates unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes. A scheme which not only failed, but as the Law of Unintended Consequences...
Whilst the claim has some merit, it is really more the impact of technology that has given the protestors and law enforcement quicker methods for sharing or gathering of information. Access numbers from mobile devices is growing and insightfully...
With the recent capture of one of the FBI's Most Wanted through the use of social media and other arrests that have been made with the help of online sources, could it be time for law enforcement to start hiring online search and social experts to...
The Challenges Facing David Cameron's Quest To Overhaul UK Copyright Law - paidContent The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted 8-3 to approve an XXX gTLD (generic top level domain) much to the outcry of the adult...
The Law of Unintended Consequences The real problem though, came through the Law of Unintended Consequences. However, in the quest for ever higher traffic numbers in order to boost search listings, various schemes were concocted to artificially...
Something as ordinary and simple as a keyboard or an iPhone might be considered by many not to rank as a fundamental law. There's also a tendency to use large numbers of keywords for PPC campaigns in English and significantly smaller volumes in...
Remember, the statistics Law Of Large Numbers tells us that our measured conversion rate average will eventually stabilize at the actual value. All online marketing campaigns and programs should be run "by the numbers.
From the law of large numbers we know that when sampling a very large number of visitors, the measured conversion rate will approach the true probability of conversion. And probability theory is concerned with the study of random events.
Law.com launches vertical search engineLaw.com Quest is a search engine focused on the searching of legal documents. Yahoo Advertising Numbers Under Attack, According to BloombergNot only is Yahoo being beleaguered by Google, but the social...
We’ve also seen an influx of people claiming to be paid search specialists and trying to take advantage of the current law of supply and demand in the paid search world. I’ve seen creative individuals with weaker mathematical analytical skills fail...
Search-Related Legal UpdatesSanta Clara University law professor Eric Goldman, on his Technology and Marketing Law blog, has updates on several search-related laws or lawsuits this week. Search-Related Legal UpdatesSanta Clara University law...
Google Wins in KinderStart Case Google has come out on top in a case filed last year by KinderStart.com, in which the kid-friendly search engine and parental advice site accused Google of "downgrading its search-result ranking without reason or...
Today at lunch, my mother-in-law was over visiting. So my wife decided it was time to introduce her to web search (my mother-in-law is yet to get a computer or surf the web herself). The second listing had the name of the place, Akay Optik, ringing...
Courts Unlikely To Stop Google Book Copying" from InternetWeek has legal experts saying that copyright law over indexing books appears to be on Google's side. Penenberg also touches on the Lane's Gifts and Collectibles and Click Defense law suits...
Out-Law.com reports about a lawsuit filed in Florida involving meta tags. The complete Law.Com article is here (free registration required). Its founder, Michael Hart, just sent over some updated numbers about what Project Gutenberg offers.
Adult Magazine and Web Site Files Law Suit Against Google By Gary Price, Nov. John Palfrey from the Berkman Center at Harvard Law offers an anlaysis. Searchblog has some early Google Desktop download numbers via Majestic Research.
