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Google CEO And Obama Get Cracking On Economy
Economists and Wall Street types sent two clear messages this week in one simple statement: President-elect Obama needs to get his financial team working on the present crisis ASAP. The underlying message there is, obviously: Bush’s team is asses over elbows on this, and we can’t wait until January 20.
China Cracking Down On Online Dissidents
Chinese police have arrested a well-known online dissident for violating his terms of probation, as the country seeks to crackdown on critics in the run up to the Olympic Games.Du Daobin, from the central province of Hebei, received a suspended sentence for what the Chinese government says was subversion in 2004 and was detained by police for posting online essays in support of another dissident.
YouTube: Cracking Down On Crime
Ontario police use the popular video sharing site YouTube to help catch a killer.
FTC Cracking Down On Videogame Stores
Sales of M-rated titles to minors happened more frequently at local and regional videogame retailers than national chains.
IE Extends Google Desktop To Cracking
A flaw with Internet Explorer’s handling of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) could lead to information theft from Google Desktop and other programs.
Naked Conversations Is a Cracking Read
Earlier in the week, I received a copy of the galley proofs of Naked Conversations, the business blogging book by Shel Israel and Robert Scoble, due to hit the bookstore shelves next January.
Cracking Verizon’s New PPC Product
Verizon recently announced the March launch of a pay-per-click product for sale from their SuperPages site. Curious about the PPC newcomer, I wrote to Troy Perkins of PayPerClickAnalyst.com to get his preliminary thoughts on Verizon and the viability of their new product.
Cracking Google’s New Algorithm
Google recently made far-reaching changes to the way it ranks search results, and the search marketing community has been abuzz with tales of woe ever since. Some have speculated that the key to understanding Google’s latest is that they’ve applied some sort of test of “commerciality” to certain phrases, roiling the waters for sites ranked well on those phrases, and leaving non-commercial phrases more or less alone. The idea is that this would cause a stampede of site owners over to the paid AdWords program, or at least making the point that Google isn’t up for providing a free lunch to clever “SEO-ized” sites indefinitely.
Cracking The Billable Hours Ceiling
How many of you made as much money as you wanted to last year? Don’t be shy; raise your hands. Hmm, I don’t see too many hands out there. What would you say is the cause of this gap between your goals and your earnings?