Only the continued efforts of dedicated Gmail users to hit the “Report as Spam” button when they spot unwanted junk messages will help Google stay ahead of spammers.
Reasons Why Google Should Acquire Facebook
I was reading Adotas this morning and noticed an article titled Google To Acquire Facebook? Google has been on a purchasing frenzy as of late and the acquisition of Facebook would further strengthen their arsenal. However a $900 million pending deal with MySpace (who provides Google with 11% of Google’s traffic) and a no-compete clause makes Google have to tread very gently. Google does not want to end up losing MySpace to Yahoo!
Top 10 Reasons Vanessa Fox Left Google
Well, the search marketing industry was mildly rocked this week by the news that the much-beloved Vanessa Fox will be leaving Google where she was something of a maven, spokesperson, and technical evangelista for some years. The news has left me rather verklempt!
7 Reasons Google’s Paid Link Snitch Plan Sucks
Matt Cutts blogged that Google would like you, the average search engine user, to report on sites you feel are displaying links for cash. This created a firestorm of negative responses from the SEO, webmaster, and free speech crowd. Below, I put together what I feel are the top 7 reasons Google’s paid link snitch plan sucks. I linked to my inspirations (No payment requested!).
10 Reasons Print’s Not Dead
A couple of print publications struggle within their field and suddenly the blogosphere is singing the dirge for newspapers. But I think it’s too soon to for the tree population to start celebrating the death of an institution.
Non-Blog Reasons Why Newspapers are Dying
There’s another flurry of ‘Newspapers Are Dead‘ posts this weekend. Dave Winer seemed to have triggered this by his post on the troubles at the San Francisco Chronicle. Robert Scoble has taken up the theme as he did some months ago. Even the Google Guys and Dave Barry have voiced the same views in the past.
Reasons for Deep Linking
While writing a post, always try to link to some older posts with absolute paths.
8 Reasons Social Media is Hot
For the past five years, the three primary search engines have dominated the online advertising industry.
The market share for search engines has brought them to virtual peak in the industry, as the effectiveness of click pay per click campaigns is questioned against the weight of click-fraud and other emerging advertising options.
All is not lost. According to a survey of 1,010 advertisers and media types including online, print, events, TV/radio/movies from Outsell, Inc the annual report on ad spending suggests:
Reasons To Build More Accessible Sites
A post over at Threadwatch just caught my attention. Of course with a title like Web 2.0, Dude, Who Cares, Where’s Phone 2.0? how could it not grab attention?
Reasons to Love the New MS Ops Manager 2007
The functionality and rich content delivered in the new web console really provides the anywhere access to the information operations teams need to keep systems running. Here are 3 reasons you’ll find the new web console a must-have. I’ll include some screenshots as reference at the end of this article.