MySpace Experiencing Ad-Related Revenue Difficulties
The good news, from News Corp’s perspective, is that MySpace is continuing to grow. The bad news is that profiting off social ads is tougher than the corporation had expected.
Yahoo Tries Glue Pages In India
Anyone who’s ever found traditional search results to be a little one-dimensional should be glad to hear that Yahoo’s addressing the issue. Something called Glue Pages Beta slaps together normal search results, Google Blog Search results, Yahoo Answers results, HowStuffWorks articles, Wikipedia entries, Flickr images, and YouTube videos all in one place.
Microsoft Needs A Search Identity
Too much variation between the company’s Live and MSN properties makes it look like the branding professionals had no input into the design.
Tighten Your Copy Or Lose Your Visitors
If you’re spending plenty of money and time on marketing and advertising, be wary of landing pages that veer into undue verbosity.
Google, Viacom Draw Lines In YouTube Suit
Google needs to fight off Viacom or get the suit dropped if they hope to withstand other potential lawsuits against the YouTube video sharing service over copyright infringement.
Google Wireless Plot Thickens
All’s fair in love and war—and politics and business. While greased politicians, like good minions, slam Google for meddling in the 700 MHz auction, Google’s own associations show the company is getting better at playing these high-stakes games. Chalk one up for razor’s-edge stategery cutting right to the quick of Verizon and AT&T.
Google Tries To Help After Myanmar Cyclone
When Google’s making an important announcement, posts will sometimes appear on more than one corporate blog. Posts relating to Myanmar have been put on at least three, and the Google homepage has been altered, as well.
Making Money Off Online Video
If you think about some of the bigger people in search, very few of them are involved with video. Robert Scoble has his whiteboard chats, of course, and Rand Fishkin puts up the occasional clip. But video often gets overlooked as a money-making tool, and that (lack of) decision needs to be examined.
Yahoo, Google deal a call of the mild
While shares of Yahoo clung to some gains after Microsoft withdrew its 13-week old effort to acquire the company, a minimal agreement for search ad outsourcing may pry up those clinging fingertips.
Google Gives Link Building The Silent Treatment
When the Google Analytics team provided a pretty narrow definition of search engine optimization, the SEO gurus pricked up their ears. While their objections may seem pedantic in a way, the point is duly noted that one important element was left out of said definition: link building. The focus of Laura Melahn and Jon Stona’s post was actually website optimization, a task distinctly different from SEO. In order to proceed, Melahn and Stona defined SEO this way: