Local Guides Launches Beta
Local Matters yesterday announced the launch of their new site, LocalGuides.com, which mashes up Local + Social + Vertical content and utilities.…
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Local Matters yesterday announced the launch of their new site, LocalGuides.com, which mashes up Local + Social + Vertical content and utilities.…
I recently had the opportunity to chat with one of my favorite usability people, Michael Ferguson at Ask.com. You can find excerpts of the interview, along with commentary, on Search Engine Land in this week's Just Behave column. Some of Michael's comments are particularly timely now, given Google's announcement of Universal search.
Americans may not be familiar with the Fairfax Digital group, but it’s Australia’s “leading provider of online news and classifieds websites.” And it’s now Google’s partner - Fairfax Digital has joined the Google Adsense network, will make some clips available through Google Video, and plans to integrate Google Maps throughout its properties.
A Defense Department decision to ban YouTube and several other sites from its unclassified network has been challenged by YouTube's founders.
A study of click fraud by Fair Isaac found 10 to 15 percent of ad traffic is "pathological," and is more of a problem than companies like Google and Yahoo want to admit.
Online poker has (deservedly or not) gotten a bad reputation, and it’s actually illegal in the U.S. It came as a bit of a surprise, then, when Yahoo launched a new site called Yahoo Poker. The site’s not for kiddies, and it’s not a joke; players will use real money.