Big Holiday Deals from PayPal & Google Checkout
Google’s Checkout and eBay’s PayPal unit are showing off their big holiday offers, designed to get you to use their services when making your holiday purchases online.
Report: Live Spaces Has Most Downtime
Pingdom tracked 12 top social networking sites from October 19 to November 19, and found that Microsoft’s Live Spaces had the most downtime, with the site failing to respond for a total of three hours over the course of the month.
By contrast, that’s more than Facebook (10 minutes), MySpace (10), Bebo (30), LiveJournal (40) and Orkut (85) combined, and worst on the list.
5 Free Or Cheap SEO Tracking Tools
There are a number of free or inexpensive search analytics tools available out there, and this article will outline a few of them that have gotten rave reviews.
Gmail Posts Group Chat, Smileys
Emoticons and group chat have been added to the features for Gmail, but they will roll out slowly to Gmail users.
French Google, Yahoo Alike (& Loving Wikipedia)
It is (I think) becoming public knowledge that Google has crushed all of its opponents in France – the company has a search market share of around ninety percent. A new study is surprising, then, in that it reveals large similarities between the French versions of Google and Yahoo.
MTV To Bring “South Park” Clips Online
MTV Networks said it will make every clip from every episode of the popular animated comedy "South Park" available online for free next year in an effort to reach a wider audience.
Google Lets (Some) Users Adjust Search Results
If you’ve ever thought, “Hey, I could give better search results than that,” here’s your chance: one of Google’s experiments is allowing users to vote sites up (or off) results pages. They can also add completely new sites to the list.
Changing Search Results with Google Experimental
Some users are reportedly seeing a new experiment in Google Experimental: the ability to re-order and even hide specific items in web search results.
Adobe, Yahoo Testing PDF Ad Service
A beta test of Ads for Adobe PDF Powered by Yahoo opened for publishers, offering placement and tracking of contextual ads alongside Portable Document Format content.
Amazon Trumps Wal-Mart On Cyber Monday
Though Wal-Mart dominates the global brick and mortar retail scene, even it had to watch Amazon surpass it in online traffic.