More New Features For Google Finance
Playing second fiddle to Yahoo isn’t a position that Google finds itself accustomed to these days, as the company clearly has Yahoo trumped in the realm of search. Finance, however, is a different story for Google as it has struggled to compete with Yahoo in this particular niche.
It’s been nearly nine months since Google launched its finance site upon the Internet world, and it still has yet to make so much as a dent into Yahoo’s lead in this particular market.
American Idol Hopeful Tops Google Searches
The competition on American Idol is just starting to warm up, but the real heat may not coming from the performances. As evidenced in last week’s Zeitgeist, Google searchers have American Idol contestant Antonella Barba on the brain, and I daresay it isn’t because of her singing voice.
WebsitesForHeroes Adds Corporate Sponsorship
DigitalPost Interactive, a provider of web platforms for digital media sharing and social networking, announced today the launch of a corporate sponsorship program for WebsitesForHeroes, a national service that allows America’s overseas troops to stay in touch with their families by providing interactive family Web sites during overseas deployments.
Microsoft to Improve SERPs
A WebmasterWorld thread informs about Microsoft’s claims to take over the Internet search. An article on NYTimes reports about Microsoft’s future plans.
Online Ads Racked Up $16.8 Billion In 2006
Internet advertising boomed last year as revenues across the industry grew 34 percent over the total for 2005, when advertisers spent $12.5 billion.
An Open Mind for Second Life
If you want to really understand all sides of the story about Second Life as a business platform – the genuine potential as well as the current drawbacks – a series of in-depth feature articles published last week by CIO Insight magazine is where you definitely should go.
Improve the Legibility of Your Site in 5 Steps
If your customer feels comfortable reading your website, he or she will be much more likely to stick around, and actually make a purchase. Furthermore, that customer will be much more likely to come back and buy from you again.
However, if your site has tiny fonts, blinding colors, or lines and images piled on top of one another, then you may as well simply tell your prospective clients to leave your site. Because that is exactly what they will do.
Spotplex – Social Networking With a Twist
The name is Spotplex, and the twist is “Trafficracy”.
At first sight, Spotplex looks like a clone of digg, with popular and latest content on the homepage. But the content is not rated by the users, but by the number of visits a page receives.
Tips for Flash Implementation
I have written a few times about the problems with putting flash on your site. It’s cool, and it’s sexy, but search engines want text rich sites, and movies and text rich content don’t mix.
Recently, I came across a site that did a really nice job of talking about this issue, and that also provides some great Flash implementations tips if you do plan to put Flash on your site. Here are some of the key concepts:
Microsoft Overcharges, Refunds, Charges Again
A couple of weeks back a major Microsoft AdCenter bug costed advertisers huge amounts. This bug made the advertisers pay a blasting amount as compared to what they have bid for. However, this bug was soon fixed and before the advertisers could even raise their brows they were paid back.