Google Predicts Impressive Online Ad Growth In Russia
Thanks to matters of both proximity and size, discussions concerning overseas search tend to focus on the UK and China. Russia may soon enter more conversations, though, as at least one expert feels its online ad market is ready to explode.
Google News Experience Slow Growth?
The New York Times says that Google News, Google’s semi-automated mainstream and blog news indexing service, is experiencing slow growth: … traffic growth is sluggish. With 11.4 million users in May, Google News ranked No. 8 among news sites, far behind Yahoo News, which was No. 1 with 35.8 million visitors, according to Nielsen Online.
A Humourous ‘Yahoo! Resignation Letter Generator’
With almost everything clouded in the shroud of uncertainty and with all the rumors of a management shift at Yahoo! Inc, it has become too cumbersome for our readers to handle. Hence, I thought, there should be something afresh to wake up to.
China, Google Share Top 10 Most Infected List
If you go down StopBadware.org’s top ten most malware infected network list, you’ll notice a pattern: the first four are Chinese. While the critic may find that unsurprising, number five on the list, Google, Inc., is worth a double take. Google isn’t just one of the founders of StopBadware.org, it’s also a member. The company, in a weird twist, is also its own target. Google has its free blogging service Blogger to thank for all that junk gumming up its own network. Out of over 200,000 websites discovered to be infected, Blogger returned 4,261 infections.
Company Internet Policies Should Address Web 2.0
Managing employees who abuse their Internet access could be hindered by company policies written before the advent of Web 2.0 sites, an employment expert believes.The warning comes after disciplinary action against 18 police officers who bragged about car crashes on Facebook.
Google Launches New Ad Planner
I wonder how many people in the interactive advertising industry are feeling suckered by Google this morning. For the past few years, Google has continually downplayed its threat to ad agencies and marketing technology companies. “We’re not a threat, we just want to help,” tends to be the main theme.
Yahoo Publisher Network Posts Tips
It’s one thing to join an organization; it’s quite another to stick around. And anybody wanting to become and remain a member of the Yahoo Publisher Network should probably pay attention to some guidelines posted on the program’s official blog.
Online Care Helps Control Blood Pressure
People with high blood pressure have a better chance of managing the condition by using the Internet according to a report in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association.Dr. Beverly B. Green, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and other researchers examined if high blood pressure could be monitored over the Internet without having to visit a doctor.
Google Releases Webmaster Central Chat Material
Some people interrupted their workdays on Thursday, and others lost a bit of sleep that night. But folks who didn’t participate in Google’s Webmaster Central chat live can now catch up at their convenience; the company’s released presentations and an audio transcript.
When All Else Fails, Ask The Google
Internet obscenity trials are all the rage these days, what with the recent antics of a particular federal judge in the news. In another such case being tried in Florida, a defense attorney has turned to Google Trends to tell him whether a certain kind of content really "violates community standards."