Fear The Bots For Quality Score
Since Google added a new layer of complexity to the AdWords system this year in the form of Quality Score, not a lot has been published about how it works or why it does a certain thing.
High Stakes Gmail Shirt Contest
There is going to be a new Gmail t-shirt, and in and of itself, this news probably wouldn’t be worth writing about. But what’s interesting is that Google is holding a contest to determine the shirt’s design, and the winner stands to gain $2,000 and a new iPhone.
Backdating Nofollow On Specific Domains
There are times when you might want to retro-actively add nofollow to links you have given freely in the past. As an example some time ago I started using the nofollow Wikipedia plugin.
Mobile Search Another Key To Google Phone
An in-development project at Google for discovering mobile content through search and enabling payment for it gives us another reason to believe Google will debut a phone and a wireless network.
Microsoft Offering Ads On MSN And Ask
Participants in the Microsoft Office Live adManager Beta can fire up their search campaigns by purchasing ads for display on MSN and Live Search, and on Ask Sponsored Listings.
Google Crunches Its Cookies Faster
Ongoing privacy concerns have pressured Google into announcing a change with the cookies they use to remember a user’s preferences.
Will The SERP Be Reinvented?
The search engine results page (SERP) has been largely the same for the past decade. But Google’s foray into Universal Search and Ask.com’s recent unleashing of 3D search have people wondering if we’re in for a new era, a new look.
Google To Engage More Lawyers In Europe
I’ve often wondered about the members of Google’s legal team. How many are there? What sort of people are they? And do they work 168 hours per week to keep up with the avalanche of lawsuits? I still don’t know the answers to all those questions, but in regards to the first one, a new report indicates that many more specialists will soon join up.
NBC Digital Adds New Features
NBC Digital Entertainment is launching its new tech and content features on NBC.com starting this summer and fall.
MySpace, MSN Collaborate In China
Well over a week ago, reports surfaced that MySpace China and MSN China would partner; Luo Chuan, the CEO of Myspace China, denied them. Now – you guessed it – the partnership has been made official.