The Paid Link Reporting Debate
What’s good for the Goose isn’t Good for Google?
Blogging Pays Off With Camaro Concept
It’s a well-known fact that most bloggers toil away in obscurity, and that a lucky few manage to obtain all sorts of fame, money, and material goods (or a talented few – I don’t mean to slight anyone). But, oh, what goods – Jalopnik’s Ray Wert recently got his hands on a Camaro convertible concept car.
Investors Suckered By Fake Apple News
Engadget ended up with egg on its face after a phony email purportedly from Apple led them to believe the iPhone and OSX Leopard would be delayed.
Gas Prices Aren’t Driving Comparison Searches
One might think the rise in US gas prices would spur people to race to the Web for pricing information and hybrid car details. One would be wrong to think these things.
NBC Denies YouTube Debate Requests
NBC’s still being stubborn about allowing its footage of the Presidential debates to be put in the public domain or licensed under Creative Commons, effectively letting the more passionately patriotic online citizenry share and remix for video sites like YouTube.
Yahoo oneSearch Shows Up In India
Seven countries in one day – whew, Yahoo oneSearch must be tired. All right, that was a little silly, but the service has been through a lot of launches in recent days, and it’s now freshly available in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
Google Goes Universal With Search
Google’s Marissa Mayer today announced the launch of a new integrated search called universal search.
Porn.com Sells For $9.5 Million
Ready, set, everybody pretend not to know the first thing about Internet porn. Good. Now that you’ve got your innocence face perfected, you need to know that Porn.com just sold for $9.5 million, the largest cash amount ever paid for a domain in the history of the Sinternet.
Google’s PowerPoint Competitor Ready To Play?
Whether it’s being polite, trying not to scare its competitor, or somehow believes this is true, Google has repeatedly claimed that it isn’t challenging the Microsoft Office Suite. But now a feature within Gmail looks a lot like a presentation tool, and onlookers are having an even harder time accepting the search engine giant’s word.
Things You Didn’t Know About Accoona
Due to the generous networking opportunities at last week’s conference, it was easy to meet a variety of people even though the event was fairly small. One person I met was John Fernandez from Accoona. You may remember Accoona from their launch event with past President, Bill Clinton. I hadn’t heard a whole lot about Accoona lately and was interested to hear their take on running a search engine in a Google dominated world.