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‘Tis The Season For Price Gouging
Call it a consequence of the free market, the law of supply and demand, or just good old-fashioned opportunism. I'll leave the…
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Travel Search Sites Kayak, SideStep Connect
In the official press release, forms of the word "merge" are used four times, "purchasing" comes up once, and "acquire" and "buy" are nowhere to be seen. Nonetheless, the bottom line is that Kayak.com secured a spectacular round of funding, and proceeded to take over SideStep.com.
Swisher: Yahoo Should Sell Search Marketing
With Yahoo being on the sidelines while Microsoft scooped up Viacom's graphical ad serving needs (and booted out DoubleClick in the process), Kara Swisher think Jerry Yang should make a sale.
Peas On Earth, Goodwill Toward Twitter
A couple of days ago something strange began happening on Twitter. Avatars of the people I follow began sporting peas. Peas in the background, in the foreground, pea pods, pea hats. And I'm all, "what's with the freakin' peas?"
Google’s End of the Year Zeitgeist
If you’re wondering what was popular in 2007, check out Google’s Zeitgeist for the year, where they list the fastest rising searches of the past 12 months.
SIS – SEMs Pursuing Display
Is there such thing as a pure search engine marketing agency anymore? Increasingly, search marketers are following the engines’ lead by planning banners, rich media, video, gadget and widget ads, blog and RSS ads, behavioral targeting, and sometimes even traditional media buys such as radio, print, and television. What expertise do search marketers bring to the table when expanding their offerings? Are there pitfalls of…
