Google, Eniro Make Friends In Land Of Meshuggah
Sweden is home to some fantastic bands, including Opeth, Arch Enemy, and Amon Amarth; I’d call these groups some of the world’s leading music makers. Sweden is also home to Eniro, which has called itself “the leading search company in the Nordic media market.” And Eniro has just expanded its partnership with another notable name: Google.
Online Coupons Attract Those With Higher Incomes
Coupons found online are more often used by consumers with higher incomes according to a survey from PriceRunner.com
Kerry Urges FCC To Open Up Spectrum Auction
Former Presidential candidate and Massachusetts senator John Kerry weighed in on the upcoming 700 MHz wireless spectrum auction, asking the Federal Communications Commission not to close off bidding to incumbent telecommunication and cable companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast.
Yahoo SiteExplorer Web vs. API
In response to my post about the Yahoo API giving the “wrong” results, I got an email from a Yahoo! rep, and we’ve been emailing back and forth a few times since. When I showed him the difference in the numbers given through the API and the Web interface for css3.info (I’ve updated my domain-info tool to both scrape the web interface and get the numbers through the API), saying “they can’t both be accurate” he explained the difference this way:
Things LinkedIn Can Learn From Digg
I came across an interesting article today on CNNMoney.com titled "LinkedIn Says It Will Own Business Networking".
Google.org Supports Believe Begin Become
Last week, Google announced its plans to set up shop in Kenya. Now Google.org is showing an interest in Kenya’s southern neighbor, Tanzania, and has made known its plans to participate in “Believe Begin Become – Tanzania’s National Business Plan Competition.”
Using Google History for Ads
This has not really been Google’s day when it comes to people jumping all over them for things they have or have not done. Adding to the complex mix of everyone going off on the Privacy International report is an underreported report on Google Adsense that is being fed by Distilled.co.uk on how they have also changed Adwords/Adsense.
TheFind Launches Shopping Search Engine for PayPal
TheFind.com, a discovery shopping search engine that debuted in 2006, has launched a shopping search engine that allows you to search for products being offered by tens of thousands of merchants that accept PayPal payments.
What Traffic Sources Should You Target?
Recently I’ve read about otherwise sane Internet Marketers (also called SEO’s) targeting Digg comments at an attempt to direct traffic to a particular website. The first thing that came to mind was that running a campaign specifically to garner traffic from the comments of a techie social media site is probably not going to have a great ROI. I may be wrong, depending on your target market, but nonetheless blog posts abound SEO’s spending lots of time on ineffective strategies abound.
Hidden Text Okayed by Google
No, the headline isn’t a joke. Google okayed hidden text–in certain contexts, of course.
Remember a couple weeks ago when Search Engine Land was outed for spamming? Several readers, in an effort to be helpful (I’m sure), pointed out that this particular trick was the Fehrer Image Replacement technique.