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The Ad Network’s Ad Network
I don’t fully understand the technology behind Right Media, a remnant inventory ad network and publisher-side ad optimization firm founded by former…
Answers.com Unveils Toolkit for Educators
Late last week Answers.com launched their “Teacher Toolkit.” It’s an innovative way for Answers.com to alert one community of users to tools…
Worms Smoked Out of Holes
Now hear this, spammers: The FBI teamed with Turkish and Moroccan authorities and nabbed the bad guys behind authoring and distributing the…
Internet and Interactive at WPP
Trudging through WPP Group’s impressive results released today I caught this little tidbit in a discusson if the holding company’s media business:…
O’Reilly In Debate Over Link Selling
I wrote back in April about how the sale of off-topic links to advertisers looking for search ranking boosts had become well…
Your Job vs. The Algorithm
Our inimitable columnist Sean Carton found what may be the best-ever example of Web marketing gone horribly, horribly wrong. He shared it…
We’re Live!
The blog’s up at last! A little background on why we finally decided to blog is here. Thanks very much for taking…
More Testing Of Middle Of The Page Query Refinement At Google
The Googleplex is playing with its search results again. Out is the "Dissatisfied" query refinement we wrote about earlier this month. In…
Copernic Still Wants Their Mamma.com
Clickz is reporting that the deal that has Mamma.com acquiring desktop/enterprise search provider, Copernic.com, is back on. Mamma.com’s plans to acquire Copernic…
Using Brackets To Illustrate Queries
How to write queries from Google software engineer Matt Cutts is a nice look at how Googlers internally represent queries, so that…