Archive for May, 2008
Thursday, May 29th, 2008
PC World has an article about how Belgian publishers are looking to sue Google for $77.5 million in damages for "for violating copyright law by publishing their articles on Google News and caching their web pages." This has been going...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Talk about theories! A WebmasterWorld thread has a theory that was posted by senior member, travelin cat, who noticed that his top ranking pages tend to have related YouTube video's embedded on them. The YouTube videos are not his videos,...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
A Google Groups thread, an advertiser is asking for advice on if Google supports the keyword insertion technique within the display URL. Keyword inserting is a method of dynamically inserting the searchers query in your search ad. For example, if...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Ah, nostalgia. That's me bent over the work of editing Wired back in the day. Thanks Pesco...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
My partners at Web 2 told me today that the new website is live, the initial theme is up and posted (I am very excited about this year's theme) and if you haven't gone before, you can request an invitation to come here. Last year we had nearly 10,000 requests ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
After a funny film featuring nearly every luminary under the sun giving Yang and Decker advice (Buffet, Stringer, Zuckerberg, etc) Yang and Decker took the stage and Walt immediately asked them about the MSFT deal. Yang agreed that they could not get to a price, but that there were other ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Can you believe it, it is almost a year since the first ever SMX Advanced show hit the stage. Next week is the second SMX Advanced show, following several successful SMX presentations, hosted by Danny Sullivan. Like always, we at...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Let's say you hosted a government website with over 1 million visitors monthly. You'd probably want to monetize it. What about considering Google AdSense? It's a possibility; the contextual ads are likely to be well-targeted. Thousands of websites employ Google...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Matt Cutts blogged about how Google keeps its index clean by deindexing hacked sites. In his post, he explains that hacked sites can be detrimental to the search experience especially if malware is hosted there and is installed on a...
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