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From XP to Vista
Installing a new operating system on your PC isn’t a task you undertake lightly, especially when the operating system you want to…
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Google Buys Stake In Maxthon
TechCrunch has broken the story that Google has bought a $1 million dollar stake in the Chinese/Israeli owned Maxthon browser. The move could represent a significant drop in traffic for Baidu, which is currently the largest search engine in China in terms of market share and Google’s primary competition within the country. According to some report, Maxthon could account for as much as 25% of…
Blogcatalog vs Technorati?
As most of my readers are no doubt aware, I am a strong supporter of sharing the link love, but I always advocate sharing it in a focused manner, preferably from relevant content or from comments and trackbacks. If you trackback/pingback this blog you receive a reciprocal link between highly relevant content automatically, and not only Google and other major search engines count the links…
Stopping WordPress Comment Spam
I am now averaging over 100 spam emails every day in my Akismet spam trap. So, thank you Akismet. But being a conscientious kind of guy, I want to make sure a “false positive” hasn’t got quarantined, so I like to go through the spam comments before deleting them, just to be sure.
SES: Search Speaks Up On Ad Quality Scores
A controversial piece of the SEM puzzle considers whether or not a marketer's advertisement suits the quality requirements of the search engines. A session at SES New York brought out the opinions from reps of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft about ads and quality scores.
Ringtones Not Ringing The Register
U.S. ringtone sales have steadily increased every year since 2003, but this year Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) is predicting that the ringtone market will see a decline. Their estimate is that sales for 2007 will be $550 million, down $50 million from 2006. According to BMI, ringtone sales for 2006 were $600 million; $500 million in 2005; $245 million in 2004; and $68 million in…
