Google Says Behave On Political Ads
Every candidate wants to find an advantage over the opponents. Those who choose to use Google’s ad products will have to mind their manners.
The Horror of Search Engine Penalties & Filters
There are two words that are guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of any website proprietor: penalties and filters.
They damage rankings and ultimately may result in banishment from the search engines. However, before panic sets in, let us guide you through the basics of penalties and filters.
A penalty is caused by significant violations of a search engine’s website guidelines, such as:
Newspaper Web Sites See Record Traffic
Monthly unique visitors to newspaper Web sites averaged 62.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2007, setting a record according to a new report by Nielsen Online for the Newspaper Association of America (NAA).
Average monthly unique audience figures for newspaper Web sites grew by more than 3.6, an increase of more than six percent over 2006 numbers. Unique visitors in the fourth quarter represented a nine percent increase over the same period a year ago (57.6 million).
National Park Service Unveils Old Faithful Webcam
Those of you who are stuck in windowless cubicles might enjoy this, and actually, unless you’re already in a national park, it could prove interesting, regardless. The news: there’s a live video feed of Old Faithful.
Cheney Again Calls For Telecom Immunity
Let me preface by saying I think the current administration – from the top all the way down to appointees who blindly cooperate – should be tried for treason. That way we bring any allegations of bias or slant to the forefront and you know where I stand. No need to bring in theories about what lies beneath the words; the words are out in the open.
ICANN Asks For Independence
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is requesting that the U.S. government allow it to become independent.
ICANN made the request in a detailed report sent to the U.S. Department of Commerce. The report will be the topic of a meeting to decide ICANN’s progress on objectives the U.S. government has put in place that would lead to the organizations independence.
Microsoft: Vista (Comparatively) Invulnerable
Imagine that a company built a car out of foam. Not a working car, of course – just a full-scale model. And then that company started trumpeting stuff about having no safety-related recalls. Well, Microsoft is proud to announce that Vista has fewer security vulnerabilities than its competitors.
JCPenney & M&Ms Get it, Scrabble and Target Don’t
Here are two Goofus and Gallants in one post as marketers continue to demonstrate how to and how not to.
Last.FM Adds On-Demand Service
Last.FM has added a new on demand song streaming service with the support from all four major labels and 150,000 indie labels and artists from distributors including The Orchard, CD Baby, IODA, Naxos. Users can listen to a track free up to three times, after which they are pointed iTunes, Amazon or 7Digital for purchase.
Google Software Engineer Explains MapReduce Concept
Mark Chu-Carroll is a Google software engineer, and in a personal blog post this week explained the concept of one of Google’s programming models: MapReduce, which splits a task onto many computers on Google’s server farm (server farm, or single super computer, depending on how you look at it) to be quickly crunched.