Google’s the best brand! Well, to be more accurate, it’s the favorite online brand. And to add still more qualifications, it’s the favorite online brand of about 36 percent of the people who took part in a JupiterResearch study.
Google, Microsoft Are Among “Best Global Brands”
According to a new report from Interbrand, Google is not one of the ten “Best Global Brands 2007”; that, from Mountain View’s perspective, is the bad news. The good news: at number 20, it’s not too far behind the leaders, and Google’s “brand value” actually increased by 44 percent in the last year.
Internet Brands Acquires Several Car Forums
Cars, cars, cars – I like ‘em, and it would seem that Internet Brands does, as well. The company, which already owned sites like Autos.com and CarsDirect, has now bought at least eight popular automotive forums.
Google Gets No Mention On Top Brands List
It’s somewhat surprising that this is Coca Cola’s first number one spot on Harris’s "Best Brands" poll, considering the amount of money the company spends on branding and the subsequent associations branding has built in the consumer mind.
Are Big Brands Stealing (Buying) the SERPS?
For a long time, search engine marketers wondered why the big brands were so slow to adopt, why they seemed to be ignoring Google. They may be wishing for the old days, when smaller players with smaller budgets had a better shot at the SERPs.
ColdFusion 8 Brands With Adobe
ColdFusion’s latest version emerges for the first time under the Adobe brand name; it’s changed a lot since its early dot-com days of doing database calls for HTML.
MySpace Brands Itself With Premium Video Content
When News Corp. entered the Internet world with its acquisition of MySpace, the I-World looked at Rupert Murdoch like they were "a-smellin’ onions." Nearly two years later, News Corp. is proving to be one of the Web-savviest companies around.
Big Brands Clueless On Site Search
Visiting the website for a major consumer brand should lead people to a useful, easily found site search if desired. Vivisimo’s VP of Marketing, Rebecca Thompson, gleefully mocked several big name brands for their unimpressive site search efforts.
Joost Snags Big Brands With Ad Deals
Viacom’s content distribution partner Joost, founded by the creators of Skype, has inked a number of ad deals with very prominent brands.
Someone’s Using My Brands!
I just tried to sign up with Google Talk in order to chat with Aaron Wall via IM.
A username is required, so my first attempt was for iBrian. Sorry, not available.
Okay, no big deal. It was popular enough to see the .com registered.
So I tried platinax. Sorry, not available. Huh? Platinax is my own unique company name. How can it not be available?