Books for the spooky season

<<It’s the last day of October, which means that here in America, it’s time to celebrate Halloween (although we’re not the only country joining the fun!). I have fond childhood memories of dressing up as a chef, an Anchisaurus , and Andrés Galarraga , and making it my personal mission to …>>   (more…)

Original post by Chris Gilmer

Map of the day: Halloween edition

<<Happy Halloween from the Google Maps team! If you’re looking for local costume parties or haunted houses, here are some Halloween event maps for different cities in the U.S.: Portland corn mazes and pumpkin patches - A guide to Portland, Oregon metro-area corn mazes, pumpkin patches and fall…>>   (more…)

Original post by Chris Gilmer

Super CTR increasing trick - Alliteration

Want an almost guaranteed trick to increase your CTR? Think back to your high school english class for this one. It’s called alliteration . If you forgot, it is the repetition of a leading vowel or consonant sound in a phrase. In other words using the words that start with the same letter. I have done a lot of testing with this, and using this trick almost always leads to a higher CTR.
Check out my blog post at CDF networks for examples and how to use this trick…

Original post by SonicReducer

Rob Zombie Takes Over YouTube

Today, YouTube has given Rob Zombie the front page, and he’s chosen some great videos to display for Halloween. The best has got to be “Wanna Buy A Ghost”, though “Mary Poppins” and “Horror Friends” are excellent too. Check em out.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

Google stock price soars above $700 for first time

Latest Local Headlines Operation Scarecrow kicks off Halloween night Two men arrested for triple homicide Prosecutors try to prove Mack murder was premeditated Nevada Day Festivities have mysterious theme Flag … via KRNV-TV Reno

Original post by KRNV-TV Reno

SearchMash In Flash Now

Google’s SearchMash site, where it runs experiments in search engine design, now has two versions: The regular one we’ve been using for months, and a new Flash-powered version that puts tabs along the top and a preview pane on the right. The pane shows site previews from Snap and a small bit of other information, but it is the approach of using Flash that is questionable.
Google is trying out what others have attempted before, but no Flash search engine has ever taken off, despite the obvious graphical and interface advantages. Flash presents too many difficulties to the user, especially the fact that it breaks the whole “click a result, read result, go back, click another result” habit most searchers use. Hopefully they’ll learn something valuable from this experiment, just not try to use a Flash search engine.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

YouTube Launches Preview Of New Browsing Design

The YouTube blog is talking about a redesign they are working on of the video browsing page, one that you can try out right now by following this link. The design hasn’t changed in any jarring way, unless you count the big red bar (which you won’t see today because of the Halloween logo, but you can see here), but it does feature drop-down menus on all the tabs for fast category switching and a cleaner, better organized grid of video details. Check it out and leave feedback.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

How long till AdBrite shows ads?

Looking for someone out there with experience with AdBrite. I have a site that I placed AdBrite on to test it out. The site is about Plants/Gardening, of which AdBrite has a defined category (Home & Garden/Gardening). They say it may take 24 hours before they show ads, but I have been waiting 3 days now, and the big ad space still says "Advertise on this site, Powered by AdBrite".
Is this normal? Or is it likely that no ads are going to show?

Original post by alejandro

Whats The Best Ppc Company After Google

I Have Been Baaned So I Am Looking For Other Company
Any Suggestions?
Thanks

Original post by ronEXTRABONUS

Check Out All The Halloween Logos

There are a bunch of search engines and other websites running special logos today for Halloween, and here they are:
YouTube’s is simple and very effective, a pumpkin replacing half the logo:

It’s the sort of logo Google used to do, before they started treating this thing as art half the time. Don’t know what I mean? Just look at the complexity of Google’s Halloween Doodle:

Spooky, but it also looks like a lot of work. Remember the days where it was obvious the most important tool for creating a Google logo was cutting and pasting?
Yahoo is running this cute little thing, another one of their animated Flash logos:

If you don’t have Flash, you’ll see this simpler static image:

Even AOL’s getting into it, with their own animated Flash logo:

(reload the page to see any of the animations from the beginning)
There’s also Technorati (it works better on […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

Google Announces OpenSocial, an API Connecter For Social Networks

Google has decided that when it comes to Facebook, if you can’t beat ‘em, API ‘em. Google’s OpenSocial, which will launch at code.google.com/apis/opensocial tomorrow, will be a set of APIs that developers can use to create applications that work on any participating social network. Google’s goal is to create an open layer that runs atop all social networks, diminishing the power of all the networks in the process.
It’s a smart plan, especially with the “fad” nature of most social networks, giving up on trying to have the most popular social network and instead trying to be the application layer that everyone uses. Google failed to buy Facebook, it’ll never get MySpace, Orkut will never be popular in the U.S., and a year from now, some unpredictable new network could be the new Facebook. Even if Facebook doesn’t use OpenSocial, new startups will use it, ensuring the […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

cheapest pay per clicks programe for advertising

Started a new website:which is the low rate pay per clicks program to advertise?

Original post by hash9999

Guys any one heard of jumbo affiliates?

guys i joined jumbo affiliates last week.its showing some some ppc and ppa ads.The payouts are high.any one know about this site?

Original post by hash9999

guys why widget bucks ads are not showing on my website?

guys widget bucks are now not showing on my website.just showing the links of widget bucks only.not the widgets and ads.Why? the site causes some problems?

Original post by hash9999

links for 2007-10-31

Hitwise Intelligence - Bill Tancer - US: Just Thought I’d Ask(.com)
Hitwise says Ask’s site visits are spiking since the latest ad campaign started, moving higher than they have been in years.
(tags: ask search market_share)

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

PC Magazine - Google Talks Up GPhone to Verizon

October 31, 2007 — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc is in active talks with number-two U.S. mobile carrier Verizon Wireless about putting Google applications on phones it …

Original post by FindArticles - Search Alert - google

PC Magazine - Google Pitches Social-Network Dev Tools

October 31, 2007 — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc will offer Internet developers an open system to create applications across Web sites, a move that could challenge the …

Original post by FindArticles - Search Alert - google

YouTubers To Take On Charles Barkley

The YouTube blog announced a cool opportunity. YouTube members can submit a video response to this video (embedded above) asking a question about the current NBA season, and Charles Barkley will try to answer it on Thursday during Inside The NBA, the commentary show he shares with Magic Johnson, Reggie Miller and others). Hopefully, the segment will be a success, and Inside The NBA (and maybe other shows too) will make soliciting video questions online a part of their regular programming.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

Get Docs in 38 languages

<<Earlier today we launched Google Docs in 13 more languages, bringing our total number of supported languages to 38. That means 99% of the world’s Internet users can collaborate in a version of Docs fully localized to their native language. The new languages are: Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Fi…>>   (more…)

Original post by Chris Gilmer

Google Now Warning For Adult Blogs

Google’s Blogger is apparently now a little more okay with more risque blogs, enacting a warning before users visit a blog that contains objectionable content. Previously, if users marked a blog as such, Google would disable public access to the blog, but now it puts up a warning, but ultimately lets them visit if they want to. With all the censorship going on, its nice to see little reasonable action to let people view what they want to.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg

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