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Google Ad Ranking System Tweaked
How are ads ranked at Google? Traditionally, it has been the ad’s clickthrough rate (CTR) times its cost per click (CPC). Those…
Yahoo Service Marks the Terms “Pearl Hunter” and “Cover Art”
I posted a week ago about a couple of new Google trademarks (technically they’re called service marks) and I thought it would…
Google Logo-Snubs England (& The US, California, …)
The Register is mildly up in arms that Google failed to do a special logo for England’s national day, St. George’s Day,…
Yahoo and Local Directory Provider Dex Media Announce Partnership
Dex Media, the official provider of yellow and white page directories for Qwest Communications in 14 states, is announcing a deal with…
2004 Online Ad Spend: Search Is Hot, But Contextual Pollution Of Figures Continues
As Gary mentioned earlier, online ad spending figures for all of 2004 were recently released by the IAB. What do they show…
Google Testing Ads In RSS Feeds
Google’s testing ads in RSS or feed-distributed content. Google Puts RSS Advertising to the Test from eWeek has details, plus see AdSense…
New Anti-Google Domains & Others Not Owned By Google
I’ve blogged before about new domains that Google has registered, such as GoogleVillage.com. But in my regular monitoring, here are a few…
Yahoo “Think Big” Contest Giving Away 10 Million Ads
Yahoo’s launched a new "Think Big" contest that will give a small business 10 million ad impressions across its ad network. How…
Yahoo Bolsters Personal Search
That didn’t take long: Last week, reviewing the new Google My Web Search service, I wrote “don’t expect Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN…
Searching For Video? Skip The Open Media Network, For Now.
The new Open Media Nework sounded interesting, after I read the Netscape Pioneers Launch Free Content Network article from News.com about it.…