MyBlogLog Name Change, Redesign Imminent
When the Five Hundred sedan didn’t sell well, Ford renamed it after a much older model, the Taurus. Ford didn’t change the car in any substantial way, but name recognition is everything, right? Now Yahoo may be attempting to apply that theory to MyBlogLog; a name change is in the works, and other, more substantial, alterations should also take place.
Ask Charges Into GPS On Mobile
A new mobile phone application from Ask offers GPS navigation as the centerpiece of the features it can deliver. The big question: will people be willing to pay $9.99 per month for it?
YouTube Caught In Malkin, EFF, UMG Crossfire
YouTube is becoming the unwitting arbiter of copyright disputes, and in the process finds itself between a rock industry and a hard face…wow, that was really bad wasn’t?…Conservative blogger and columnist Michelle Malkin is crying foul after a music industry DMCA notice quieted her criticism of Hip Hop artist Akon.
Google Sets Sights On Indian “Techno Complex”
Never mind another research facility, and a call center is so comparatively small as to be out of the question; Google intends to build a new “state-of-the-art techno complex” near Hyderabad, India.
Consumers Research Products Online,Buy Offline
A new survey from Accenture finds that the majority of U.S. consumers use the Internet to research products but prefer to make their purchases offline.
Consumers Research Products Online,Buy Offline
Mr. Hurley Goes To Washington
Capitol Hill got a little surreal this week as YouTube CEO and founder Chad Hurley got yanked in font of the House telecommunications subcommittee to discuss the future of video.
Google Analytics for Tracking Google Base Referrals
Tracking referrals from Google Base can be difficult and confusing.
Gmail Users Among Cream Of The Crop
According to some new statistics, Gmail users are young, rich, and tech-savvy (or younger, richer, and savvier than users of Yahoo Mail and Hotmail, at least). Gmail’s market share is also steadily – and quickly – rising. Yet there’s some bad news for the Mountain View team, as well: their product is getting trounced overall.
The Google Kool Aid
Tamar linked to an interesting WebmasterWorld thread, Todays Webmaster & Their Relationship with Google, this week. The original poster makes some good points about how we’ve fallen under Google’s spell, spend too much of our energy focused on Google, think that Google’s guidelines are what define ethical seo, and give Google access to more data than we should.
Integrating Flickr Into Yahoo Search
Yahoo! Search Blog: Famous Landmarks Get the Flickr Treatment in Yahoo! Search The Yahoo Search Blog is reporting that Flickr has recently added thumbnails of Flickr images for popular domestic and international landmark searches into Yahoo Search.