SEO.
Newspapers Thinking More About SEO
This Boring Headline Is Written for Google is an interesting look from the New York Times about how newspapers are learning to adapt to search engines, in particular…
MoveOn Muddles AOL/Goodmail Issue
So, yesterday, while writing up a piece about a conference call with California State Senator Dean Florez regarding Monday’s hearing on AOL’s…
Verizon Customers to be Compensated for E-Mail they Didn’t Get
Marketers always say consumers will be angry if they don’t receive e-mail they’re expecting, and here’s evidence of that. As part of…
MSN Web Spam Patents Applications & Algorithms Explored
Bill Slawski has an excellent write up on web spam through the eyes of patent applications and published papers. During Bill’s research,…
Integrating Search with Traditional Advertising
Search advertising used to be an afterthought. Businesses were reluctant to spend large amounts of money on it. They didn’t understand it.…
Stupid Newspaper Publishers, Search Engines Are Your Friends
I left newspaper reporting about ten years ago because it was clear the industry had no idea how to transition to an…
Nofollow Not Meant For Every External Link
NoFollow Nastiness – a Big Boo for Google! is a nice look at Threadwatch on how some people are making use of…
Mobile Offerings Multiply This Week
Channel 4 in the U.K. will provide free-to-view video on mobile phones. It claims to be the first time a U.K. commercial…
Advocacy Inc. Responds to Video E-mail Skepticism
I got a note from Maggie Duncan, Advocacy, Inc.’s assistant director of client relations, in regards to a post I made the…
Reserve-A-Pizza.com
Papa John‘s has come up with what might be the next best thing to having a hot pepperoni slice slide out of…
Searching BG, Before Google, And The Need To Search Better
Just when you think stupid articles that assume we couldn’t search BG — Before Google — have come to an end, the…
Free Pot
The subject line in my inbox was pretty compelling. An offer like “Free Pot,” after all, is hard to pass up… if…
PointRoll, ePrize Join Forces
PointRoll and ePrize will intertwine their services under an unusual formal vendor partnership. A joint offering will combine PointRoll’s rich media and…
Ad/Content Compatibility
Clicked on a link in a BusinessWeek.com e-mail newsletter this morning, and landed in the publication’s video center. Was pleased to see…
Social Bookmarking Made Easy By Socializer
I reported on a tool named Socializer, an automated social bookmarking service that you can easily add to your content. This service…
Amazon Changes “Did You Mean?” Result For “Abortion” Query
Wired News reports that Amazon has changed the way to handles the search query “abortion.” In that past, Amazon would place a…
Esther on Goodmail
Tech investor Esther Dyson weighs in on the AOL/Goodmail debate with an editorial in the New York Times (registration req.) today. Venerable…
Clusty Adds Search Feature To Help Cluster Results For End User
Clusty, a search engine that is focused on clustering results, has added a new feature according to ResourceShelf that makes viewing clustered…
Growth in Ad Spending Led by Internet in 2005
Advertising on the Internet increased by 23.3 percent in 2005, compared to the previous year. The data are from preliminary figures released…
Bluefly’s Handbag Catfight
Bluefly’s launched a new lead-gen promotional campaign, the IT-Bag-a-Day Giveaway. They’re giving away 45 “to-die-for” designer bags between now and the end…
Ultimate Googling with Advanced Dork Firefox Extension
Search Engine Journal covers at new Firefox extension named Advanced Dork that enables advanced Google searches with a right click on your…
iOffer Pokes Fun at eBay
eBay is a tough one to compete with, but an easy target. While P2P commerce site iOffer might not follow an auction…
Didn’t Get That Wedding Gift? Blame The Search Engines!
Search engines are appearing to be indexing gift registries and ranking them well enough to be found by unsuspecting online consumers. This…
Google Buys Writely
As rumored, Google bought Writely. As John Battelle so, uh, rightly points out, Mountain View is head-to-head with Redmond, from demographic site…
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