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Google has beaten a couple of challenges to AdWords over competitor usage of trademarks as keywords, but they now have a third…
Last week’s announcement that the Interpublic Group acquired Reprise Media set off a round of self-congratulatory praise up and down Madison Avenue. It was as though they stopped hitting the snooze button and finally addressed the importance of search in any advertising campaign. But take a close look beyond the buzzwords like “integration” and “broad marcom mix,” because the acquisitions and partnerships merely put a…
Google has rebranded their moribund shopping engine from Froogle to Google Product Search, and changed its look to match other Google pages.
Amazon evidently wants you to “Go Indie”; a new music store of that name has been launched, and it features some tempting price cuts over regular items. Amazon got 30 different music companies to work with it on this project. To be honest, I didn’t recognize any of them (guess I’m not indie enough), but some of the more interesting names are Alligator Records, Bloodshot…
StumbleUpon has ticked some of their users off recently by removing their audience rank feature. SEO expert Joe Whyte wrote this on his blog about the sites actions. "It looks like Stumble Upon has taken a page out of the book of digg and started removing factors that allow you to gauge your rank and profile power within stumble upon."
It’s only for a six-month trial period, and it involves just 20,000 people in the UK, but something important has transpired - part of the BBC archive went online. And if everything goes well, we can look for all of that audio and video to become much more widely available.
