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For a long time my blogs have performed amazingly well with Google Blog Search. I always appear in the relevant results quickly,…
In Wednesday's SearchInsider, Aaron Goldberg looked at video search and what's going to be required for it to truly become an interesting advertising vehicle. Some of the speculation comes from Aaron’s musing about what might happen if Google purchased Blinkx.
Online jewelry sales in the U.S. market hit $2.45 billion in 2006, an increase of 20 percent from 2005, according to data from IDEX Online Research. Online sales comprised 3.9 percent of all jewelry sales of $63.0 billion in 2006. The conventional wisdom at the start of e-commerce was that online sales of jewelry would never be a major factor. Online shoppers now buy a…
With the future of industries such as online radio and peer-to-peer networking hanging in the balance, the pendulum of power is shifting from the hands of the suits at the RIAA into the hands of the public. Those who feel they have been wronged by the organization are collectively beginning to fight back.
Google wants to protect the environment; it also wants its employees to stay happy and healthy. So, to address both issues at once, the search engine company is giving away around 2,000 free bicycles. Ironically, the bikes will not be offered to Google’s American employees, who (statistically speaking) are probably most in need of some exercise.
And we have yet another example of the distance contextual advertising has to go. When a New York Times advertisement pops up above a guide to the Big Apple's cocaine scene, there is clearly more work to be done – unless the NYT would actually endorse such a thing. The ad is covered in a thick layer of irony, informing its target market that the…
