Sellers Upset With eBay’s Off-Site Ads
eBay’s reintroduction of offsite advertising is a burr in the saddle to many e-tailers there. Though it was there once before, back in the late Nineties, Google and Yahoo’s contextual ads are so dead-on that sellers fear they are losing business because of them.
Google and Personalized Search
Another way that Google has changed the playing field as far as search engine optimization is through Personalized Search.
YouTube Now On Google Earth
Google Earth has added a new feature that allows YouTube videos to be embedded at geographical locations. Users can now view videos of famous tourist attractions or other places they may want to visit.
CBS Horrifies Net Audience With ‘Dodge The Kills’
A charming series of short videos entitled "How to Survive a Horror Movie" links CBS and author Seth Grahame-Smith’s recent book of the same name.
Ballmer Gets Earful From Vista Mom
In my years of retail work, I’ve encountered tough guys, wicked old ladies, and thousands of screaming children. Yet the scariest creatures are often the mothers of those children, and Steve Ballmer may have seen a hint of that when one woman confronted him over Windows Vista.
Analysts: Privacy Won’t Stop Google, DoubleClick
The whispering campaign favoring Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick has begun, as a number of antitrust observers predict FTC approval of the deal.
Google Patent Moves It Closer To GoogleNet
A mobile datacenter patent has been issued to Google based on its December 2003 filing, giving the company a technology similar to that of Sun’s Project Blackbox.
Brand Advertising – The Next Mobile Wave
European research firm Vanson Bourne was commissioned this summer to report on 50 global brands’ attitudes toward mobile marketing. More than two-thirds expected to spend up to 10% of their marketing budget on mobile messaging campaigns within two years.
AP Suing Moreover Like It’s 1999
The Associated Press is suing news-aggregation site Moreover and its parent company VeriSign for copyright infringement for snippeting and linking to its news. This harkens back to the early days of the Internet when news aggregators were routinely legally hassled for linking.
Email Marketers Struggle To Deliver
AOL ranks the lowest for email deliverability for marketers and Google’s Gmail is the best for deliverability according to a survey from Dot Email.