Google Experimenting With Editable Search Results
Google’s impressive market share makes for convincing evidence of its skill at search. Few things are perfect, though, and the search giant is now allowing select users to alter their own results.
Video – The New Display Ad
Those who come across video ads are witnessing a shift from the prevalence of classifieds-style, vertically focused video ads to ones aimed at whoever finds them online.
Analyst: VC Confidence At New Low
Though Phil Gramm’s pretty sure the recession is all in our heads, it seems that just about every road to a healthy economy is either closed or under construction. The road to Silicon Valley, according to one analyst, is at best at a standstill.
Microsoft, Icahn Reply To Yahoo’s Rejection
Microsoft and Yahoo both employ intelligent, well-educated men and women. Carl Icahn’s pretty sharp, too. Recent acquisition dealings seem to have turned a great many people into finger-pointing fifth graders, though, and there’s been another salvo of letters and statements to support this argument.
Virgin Launches Strip2Clothe Charitable Campaign
When we moved last month, my wife and I toted out 43 garbage bags of clothing we culled from our closets to donate to charity—some garments, a little shamefully, with the tags still on them. I’ll let that act serve as rationale enough for not sending Virgin Mobile a video of myself stripping—although Chris Farley’s got nothing on me as far as moves go.
Globe
An Australian woman known as the world’s oldest blogger has died at the age of 108.Olive Riley, from Woy Woy around 50 miles north of Sydney, started blogging in February of 2007. In her final post she talked about her declining health but also said she still sings a happy song every day.
B2B Opportunities Exist On Google
Selling a massive piece of machinery should be as much a part of search marketing as selling a consumer good like the iPhone.
Adult Themed Rooms Pop Up In Google’s Lively
The graphics in Google’s 3D chat world Lively shine, but behind the scenes the Lively team also seems busy squashing minor and major early-release bugs. And since some days, Lively got its first social phenomenon, too: the almost meme-like creation of cyber sex rooms. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, or is there?
Google Talks Ranking Factors
Google search engine ranking team Google Fellow Amit Singhal published a blog post “Introduction to Google Ranking” at the official Google blog. While not going into the specific nuts-and-bolts factors influencing SERPs (or search engine results pages), Amit outlined a number of broad principles to keep in mind when optimizing your web pages.
FCC Penalty For Comcast? Fuggedaboutit
That possible sanction for Comcast’s admitted use of traffic shaping software to interfere with customer broadband accounts when using peer to peer software apparently evaporated after further review.