Archive for October, 2008

SEOs Make Microsoft & Yahoo An Example on Google Maps Hijacking Hole

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Mike Blumenthal has been covering Google Maps spam since Google Maps came out. I guess he got sick of covering the issues and not much being done about stopping it. He decided to do something a bit extreme. He hijacked...

Microsoft adCenter Drops Sunday Support Hours

Friday, October 31st, 2008

These are the days of cut backs. We've seen it at Yahoo and now we are hearing about it at Microsoft's adCenter team. adCenterRep posted a thread at DigitalPoint Forums announcing the support details for the Microsoft adCenter product/service. The...

Halloween ‘08 From The Search Industry

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Here are various logos from the search industry, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Live.com, Ask.com and many others. Some are pretty spooky, including our theme. Google's Halloween Logo: Yahoo's Flash Halloween Logo: Yahoo's Static Halloween Logo: DogPile's Halloween Logo: Live.com's Halloween...

Eight Reasons Why Now May Be The Right Time To Invest In Your Site

Friday, October 31st, 2008

The game changed September 15, 2008. As world markets came tumbling down, the future of many internet start-ups also turned to dust. The message from the financiers is clear - they will be no more money. Web watchers, such as TechCrunch, feature a deadpool of failed internet start-ups. That list is ...

OpenID

Friday, October 31st, 2008

I'm watching this unfold, OpenID, Facebook Connect, Y!OS, Microsoft support, Google support...it's supposedly a big group hug, but it feels like a war, folks. And it's not pretty. Note this: A couple of hours ago, the Google Security Team posted an article claiming that Google’s made the switch to OpenID, joining ...

O’Reilly Launches “Found” Conference

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Check it out. From the conference site: The way to online success is through being easily found in search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Live Search. While developers have historically thought of search as a marketing activity, technical architecture has now become critical for search success. Found is the ...

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 30, 2008

Thursday, October 30th, 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....

Deeper vs Broader: Exposure vs Engagement

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

One of the most salient points of Seth Godin's Tribes book is that in the long run it is much more profitable for most businesses to create a deeper community with stronger and more passionate connections than it is to create a broader one that has strong reach but no ...

Web2 Conversations: Shai Agassi

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Continuing my crowdsourcing of Web2 conversations (and this is nearly the last one), on the third day, and just a few hours after Elon Musk, I'll be talking to Shai Agassi, founder and CEO of Better Place, and former President at SAP. Agassi is yet another example of a tech ...

Google Webmaster Tools Breakdown?

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

There are a lot of reports lately of issues with Google Webmasters Tools. Issues are fixed but then they return. For example, we have this post reporting 0 crawled pages from October 23; on October 24, we still had individuals...