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A survey by the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) found that nearly everyone running a paid search campaign tosses some cash…
"That'll do pig, that'll do," is how SEM-at-home mom and Lactivist Jennifer Laycock concluded her beef with the National Pork Board after receiving a heartfelt apology and the promise of a donation from to the Mother's Milk Bank of Ohio.
Last week, Yahoo launched its new Panama search platform amidst much buzz throughout the blogosphere. As part of the new model, Yahoo will be implementing a scoring system to determine ad quality, which will in turn have an influence on bid prices for keywords. We’re less than two weeks into Panama, and already Yahoo has been more forthcoming with information concerning its quality score calculation…
While seeking evidence that a suspect in New Zealand was the member of a burglary ring, authorities in the country tried obtaining details about the man and were rebuffed by Microsoft. It took a court order for Microsoft to change its tune about not being subject to laws in New Zealand. Police wanted to identify a man who had provided his name, address, and phone…
Some marketing fails because it does not use market feedback to help improve the ROI on the next generation of marketing. For example, if I make a couple sites and then take what I learned from making those and apply that to making more sites I will probably be more efficient than if I try to make many sites in parallel without collecting feedback.
When you think of Cisco, the company's prowess in networking and IP technology immediately comes to mind. With today's announcement, however, it appears that Cisco is branching out into a different kind of networking, the kind geared toward people rather than machines. Cisco has announced an agreement acquire Five Across, a San Francisco based social networking software company. Terms of the deal have not been…
