Google Adsense and Competing Pay-per-click Ad Networks
<<I realized that I didn’t mention that Google Image Search got a makeover. The focus is on the thumbnails, but as you mouse over an image, you get more info. It looks like this: If you haven’t taken image search …
<<In December, Yahoo! Answers reached 96% of the Q&A site market share, according to Hitwise. While the real power of the community lies with the sheer number of people on the site – 17.9 million users, says comScore – it’s …
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Yahoo reported fourth quarter earnings this week, announcing an increase in revenues to $1.7 billion, up 13% from $1.5 billion a year earlier. They also announced net income of $269 million, or 19 cents a share, a huge 61% drop …
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<<I’m going to SES London 2007. I’ll be hanging at the conference (which runs Tuesday February 13th to Thursday February 15th), and I’ll do a Keynote Conversation with Chris Sherman that Wednesday. If you’re at the conference, please come up …
<<I realized that I didn’t mention that Google Image Search got a makeover. The focus is on the thumbnails, but as you mouse over an image, you get more info. It looks like this: If you haven’t taken image search …
<<I’m going to SES London 2007. I’ll be hanging at the conference (which runs Tuesday February 13th to Thursday February 15th), and I’ll do a Keynote Conversation with Chris Sherman that Wednesday. If you’re at the conference, please come up …
<<In a recent Inside AdWords post, Ronnie C. from the Optimization team encouraged you to not only test and iterate, but to also evaluate your account’s performance. If you’re using Google Analytics or any other web analytics program, you’re probably …
Google has announced a speaker series to be hosted at their New York City offices, bringing some cool talks at the Google offices for everyone to enjoy. The first talk is this Monday, with Adam Bosworth talking about “Physics, Speed, …
Here’s a shocker: Wikipedia isn’t the only major site that uses “nofollow” on outgoing user-generated links; YouTube does it too. I looked at the source code on a typical YouTube video page and discovered 137 rel=”nofollow” tags! The strange thing …
<<The folks at Cordless/WMG recently launched three awesome Blogger-powered blogs for their bands Dangerous Muse, Throw the Fight and Die Mannequin. Aside from their fantastic designs, they’ve done a number of neat-o template integrations with other Google services like YouTube, …
<<Some of you have asked about the warnings we show searchers when they click on search results leading to sites that distribute malicious software. As a webmaster, you may be concerned about the possibility of your site being flagged. We …
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<<Thank you for all for your feedback and patience. We updated our v8 CampaignService WSDL to fix a client interoperability issue with nillable fields in the new budget optimizer settings. This is similar to a previous fix we made to …
Google has added a stats page for its custom search engines, letting those who have created and maintain one of their CSEs see what sort of usage the search engine is getting. The new feature shows the number of queries …
<<I was reading Loren’s write up on a new link selling service from V7N. He points out an interesting claim from the company, which says Contextual Links @ V7N are undetectable to search engines. Whether it be by human or …