1-800 Contacts In Keyword Legal Battle Again
1-800-Contacts is suing again. They filed suit against LensWorld.com this past Tuesday, Jan. 8th. Competitor LensWorld.com bid on the keyword “1800Contacts” so when someone types it into the search engine, a LensWorld ad would show. Nothing new here (this is a routine practice in many industries, with both sides participating).
Ask Displaying Google Ads through its Contextual Ad Program
So you want to get into the arbitrage game by serving Google ads on Yahoo? If so, you have quite a few hurdles to overcome. Google’s quality team is gunning for you, countless advertisers are watching their logs, and just about everyone under the sun is excluding you from their content network campaigns. What’s a gray hat arbitrager to do? Perhaps the answer is a back door method to arbitrage Google ads.
Fixing Fallen Search Engine Rankings
Are you baffled about a recent drop in your search engine rankings? Do you know where to start and get a handle on what the problem might be and how to remedy it?
Google Announces Trends for Google Checkout
As we come up to the last days of fee-free merchant services from Google Checkout, the Official Google Checkout Blog announced yesterday that they now have Google Checkout Trends. Patterned after Google Trends, GCT shows relative revenues from Google Checkout merchants.
Wired Dubs Search Engine Land A Spammer
Ross Mayfield took umbrage to Barry Schwartz creating a page on Wired’s How To Wiki and pointing the page to Search Engine Land.
Clinton’s Broadband Proposals Losing Support
Those (derogatorily or not) considered on the left side of the political spectrum seem to be turning on Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, especially in regard to her plan for expanding broadband access.
New Zealand May Be Next For Google Street View
If you’ve watched any "Lord of the Rings" film, you know what large, open areas of New Zealand look like. Google’s going to introduce you to parts of the rest of it, however; cars representing the company’s Street View project have been sighted in this country.
Internet Playing Larger Role In Politics
Close to a quarter (24%) of Americans say they regularly learn something about the presidential campaign from the Internet, close to double the percentage from the 2004 campaign according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.
Print Yellow Page Usage Erosion Forecast
Over at Media Post, The Kelsey Group isquoted todaysaying that the erosion in usage of print yellow pages is likely to fall off at a higher rate this year — by 10% this year, compared with only 2% to 3% erosion in recent years.
Getting a Feel for Web Conference Usage
Web conferencing technology/service vendors, this is for you. Nobody really knows the true size of the market and how widespread the use of our medium is. Asking the clients about their usage won’t ever get us a large enough response rate to get valid totals. So let’s do a little group estimation amongst ourselves. I have put together a short (but difficult!) online survey. I’m asking each of the web conferencing technology vendors to go through and give best guesses and estimates of usage averages and totals that they see with their clients.