Microsoft’s Cool With Third Place
The good news for Microsoft is that the company pulled in something like $12.5 billion last quarter. The bad news is most of that didn’t come from search, and the company expects less of its revenue to come from search in the near future.
Hillary Clinton and Web 2.0
Either someone smart is working with Senator – and would-be POTUS – Hillary Clinton, or she is a lot hipper to the Web 2.0 jive than I might have thought.
Mobile Web – A Completely New Ball Game
Rich Skrenta feels that it’s time for the Winner To Take All. Google has won in what he calls the Third Age of Computing.
MySpace Popular With Mobile Users
Social networking sites are the primary force driving US and UK mobile phone users to upload content to a variety of Web sites.
Bush No Longer A Miserable Google Failure
The practice of people creating a multitude of links to President George Bush’s WhiteHouse.gov profile with the words ‘miserable failure’ as anchor text has been known as Google bombing. Now Google has made a change rendering that Google Bomb a dud.
The Best Hacks on Flickr
One of the nice things about Flickr is that because of their open API a whole host of developers have built more and more interesting things to do with the site.
Opera Mini Has A Ninjarific Birthday
The adoption of web browsing on mobile devices has helped Opera Mini enjoy a successful first year in and out of the pockets of people around the world.
Your Search Marketing Business Case
A great deal of our book, Search Engine Marketing, Inc. turns on the business case for search marketing.
Semel “Laser-Focused” On Search Business
Yahoo ended its fiscal year by announcing an early arrival for its Panama search advertising platform, and CEO Terry Semel thinks it will help their overall search business.
Google Book Search, Google Maps Team Up
It’s an all-too-common problem: you’re reading War and Peace when the name “Vyzama” stops you dead in your tracks; you simply can’t continue with the novel until you know where this Russian town is located. Google Book Search and Google Maps are now teaming up to render such problems obsolete.