The Future of Natural Search?
Google recently announced that it will be going ahead with personalized search results. There is no need to underestimate the potential of this change. It is really the beginning of a new era in search.
Google Shares Quality Score, Changes AdWords Algo.
Google is planning changes for its AdWords Quality Score. First of all, they will let us see the Quality Score. A mail to the same effect was received by Shimon Sandler. The mail read that:
New York Leads In Identity Fraud
The dubious honor of being the state with the highest rate of identity fraud goes to New York, and New York City tops other US metropolitan areas.
Will Google’s dMarc Debacle Hurt Future Deals?
Word came out last weekend that brothers Chad and Ryan Steelberg, who founded radio advertising company dMarc and then sold it to Google, have left Google just a year after the deal. Google bought dMarc for $102 million, with as much as $1.13 billion extra coming if certain revenue targets were met.
AAPT To Provide Google Search
Some of Google’s products are about to become available through an entirely different company, thanks to a new deal with AAPT. The Australian telecommunications carrier “will be offering Google’s new enterprise search solution to its customers,” according to the terms of the agreement.
The Ultimate Social Network You’ve Never Heard Of
Ok, maybe you have … and it just might be Flixster, a social network dedicated to film, actors, Hollywood and movie fans.
The obvious question you could be wondering is how it can be "the ultimate" when there are so many other social networks that have been around longer, pull more traffic, have more users and generate more buzz?
EFF Goes YouTube Ambulance Chasing
If a YouTube user feels one of their videos was an unfair casualty of Viacom’s recent war on copyright infringement, the Electronic Frontier Foundation wants to know about it. The nonprofit organization has posted its call to the user-generated disenfranchised on their home YouTube turf.
VTO – German Google Book Search Competitor
On Tuesday, Mathias Schindler reported how easy it was to access the site of German Google Book Search competitor in progress, VTO (full text search online).
Brin Portrayed in The Google Story
Mark Malseed, co-author of The Google Story, takes an in-depth look at Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his family, mother Eugenia (NASA research scientist), father Michael (mathematics professor), and brother Sam. Here’s what Mark saw when he entered Sergey’s spacious Googleplex office 211, shared with Larry Page:
Gemstar-TV Guide Announces Online Acquisitions
Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. a media, entertainment and technology company, announced that it has purchased a number of television-focused Websites; TVShowsOnDVD.com, TV-now.com, and Fansof RealityTV.com as well as certain assets of eVoke TV.
The goal of the company is to broaden the reach of TV Guide Online’s network. In June, of 2006, they purchased JumptheShark.com and plan to redesign the site for a February 28 launch.