Yahoo Search Looks For 2007 Trends
The typical celebrity crises that grab lots of attention in search may have reached a point where Yahoo’s Search team has had far too much Lohan, Hilton, and Spears this year.
Facebook Loses Advertisers As Concerns Deepen
Things just keep looking worse for Facebook’s Beacon: Coca-Cola and other advertisers are opting out of the program; there may be legal troubles ahead; and some investigative security work shows that Beacon sends information about user activity even when logged out of Facebook.
AdWords Touts Mobile Advertising
The mobile advertising market looks like a ground floor venue that is starting to rise, and Google has advice on following it upwards.
What’s Ahead for Google Apps?
Andrew Miller’s getting a whole lot of link-love for his notes from a recent Ann Arbor Chamber event hosted by Google. Scott Johnston, the former VP of Product Development at JotSpot and new Googler shared some snippets on what’s coming down the pipeline for Google’s online office suite, Google Apps.
Online Shoppers Have Little Patience
Close to three-quarters of online shoppers (73%) will ditch an ecommerce site within one or two minutes of not finding the products they are looking for according to a survey sponsored by SLI Systems and conducted by Zoomerang.
Middle America clicks on ads
As Danah Boyd hypothesizes on who the ad clicking audience might be, online entrepreneurs should consider this alternative to the pay per click treadmill upon which they walk.
Watch Out for Craigslist Scams!
Consider this post a public service. Two people who I know well were getting close to caught up in a real estate scam on Craigslist, and in the extended entries I’m including the correspondence.
Celebs, Wrestling Top Yahoo Searches In 2007
Looking at the top searches on Yahoo for the year 2007, you might draw a few conclusions about what’s foremost on America’s conscience – and they might not be good conclusions.
Google Street View Could Conceal Faces In U.S.
Google Street View is a bit controversial, and two months ago, Google’s global privacy counsel announced that his company was willing to conceal people’s faces and license plates in some countries. Now there’s word that it could do this in America, as well.
Online Ads To Surpass Magazines
The Internet is on track to surpass magazines to become the globe’s third largest advertising medium by 2010, according to Steve King, chief executive of ZenithOptimedia.