Armand Rousso’s past and a deeper look at Accoona’s business has observers wondering if the company will be able to conduct a planned IPO.
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.
Food for Thought on Google’s Web History
Yesterday’s announcement from Google about including Web history in search personalization marks a fairly significant development in disambiguating intent on Google. Consider the implications. One of the issues I had with the initial implementation of search personalization was that it really only worked when there was existing search history.
Google Has Web History On Its Side
A new feature from Google goes beyond the search history it can retain for people; their Web History option would keep track of every page a person visits.
AdWords and History of PPC Price Inflation
Detlev Johnson, in the SearchReturn email newsletter, weighs in on the subject of landing page quality algorithms by turning to a history of paid search price increases:
Google Earth Updates Give History Lesson
Google is usually on the cutting edge, or at least near it. The company’s latest “innovations” are intentionally out of date, though. Google Earth will now feature historical maps dating back as far as the 17th century.
Domesday – 900 Years of English History Online
I’d bet that few people haven’t heard of the Domesday Book, the survey of England commissioned in 1085 by William I (William the Conqueror) who conquered England after the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
Yahoo! TV Makes History With The 4400
The USA Network and Yahoo! have made cable history. A special episode of The 4400 premiered exclusively on Yahoo! TV. It will run there for one week before migrating to NBC Universal websites, and then to cable television.
Last Bit Of Internet History For Sale On eBay
In case you hadn’t heard about it on CNN, Fox, ABC, or MSNBC among others, the final 1,000 pixels on The Million Dollar Home Page are for sale on eBay. With 5 days remaining, the current bid is just over $145,000. The simple and brilliant idea from the 21-year-old mind of Alex Tews has web-entrepreneurs shrieking “why didn’t I think of that?” as they scramble to put up imitation sites offering anything from skin to dismemberment.
A Brief History of Tablet PCs
In the late 1980s, early pen computer systems generated a lot of excitement and there was a time when it was thought they might eventually replace conventional computers with keyboards.