Search Insider Summit – Competitive Intelligence
Competitive Intelligence — One of the most powerful aspects of search engine marketing is the intelligence you can gain from it, both about your own brands and your competitors. Just how much can you find out about the competition?
Google Maps For Mobiles Finds Way Into UK
When Google invited a group of British tech reporters to a briefing, those journalists got pretty excited. The event involved “a product for mobiles,” you see, and the reporters were hoping to find out about the Google phone. They didn’t. But Google did release a full, UK-specific version of Google Mobile Maps, which is kinda nifty, too.
Google Maps For Mobiles Finds Way Into UK
MySpace Launches Tool To Fight Infringement
MySpace has launched a new copyright protection tool in an effort to combat infringing video content. The tool called "Take Down Stay Down" prevents users from re-posting videos that have been previously removed at the request of copyright owners.
Don’t Trick The Google Ad Click
Placing Google AdSense units and navigation elements on a website can be accomplished without leading to accidental clicks. Webmasters should beware of doing otherwise.
Is Viacom’s YouTube Lawsuit A Smokescreen?
Groklaw has the whole lawsuit and response posted in their legalese glory online, and asks a question about Viacom’s involvement with Joost.
Google Apologizes, Thailand Drops Lawsuit
Quite a line was forming up, but it appears there’s now one less organization in the world that wants to sue YouTube; since the video-sharing site decided to take down clips in which the king of Thailand was insulted, the Thai government has dropped its criminal lawsuit.
Google Apologizes, Thailand Drops Lawsuit
Google Earth Scares The Spooks
The director of a U.S. intelligence agency has cautioned that the government may have to censor satellite images that could be a potential security threat to the country and its armed forces.
The warning came from Vice Admiral Robert Murret, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which provides security information using satellite imagery.
In an interview with the AP he said," If there was a situation where any imagery products were being used by adversaries to kill Americans, I think we should act."
Microsoft’s Switchboard Better than Google’s
Have you ever tried to call someone at Microsoft or Google? I have. I’ve even memorized Microsoft’s number but won’t give it here cause I’d hate for Jeff Sandquist to get a ton of crank calls. Anyway, both Microsoft and Google have switchboard numbers.
Google Seeks Friendship; Newspapers Curse
Google said it wants to be “best friends” with traditional newspapers. A newspaper executive replied (with more humor than anger), “I don’t know what the hell we’re talking about.” That exchange should give you an idea of what took place during a panel discussion at the Newspaper Association of America’s convention in New York.
Google Seeks Friendship; Newspapers Curse
(Lots Of) Web 2.0 Awards Announced
If I were to identify just the 41 categories, this article would become rather long and list-like. If I were to mention each of the “over 200” websites involved, you’d hate me. So I’ll simply report that SEOmoz has announced its 2007 Web. 2.0 Awards, and perhaps hit a few of the highlights while I’m at it.