Google Adsense and Competing Pay-per-click Ad Networks
Matt Cutts is right. Finally, Arrington’s mention of “Matt Cutts, the unofficial Google blogger†also set my spidey sense tingling. No single person should be Google’s unofficial blogger–that’s not scalable. Matt’s talking about how some people expect him to be …
<<Happy new year! For our first post of 2007, we’d like to add clarity to the difference between two reports that you are probably already using.Among the vast array of reports that Google Analytics provides, “Absolute Unique Visitors†and “New …
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OS X-compatible Yahoo! Music video player released as beta – Download Squad (tags: yahoo music video) Original post by Nathan Weinberg
Two Google services have broken in the new year, most likely due to code that failed when the clock struck 2007. Ionut Alex notes that the Gmail storage counter, which usually adds a third of a megabyte of storage to …
John Musser has compiled some stats on the mashups of 2006, with 1,404 mashups clocking in at year’s end. The number one mashup API of the year? Google Maps, with 51 percent of all APIs. Yahoo’s Flickr API took second …
<<From all of us on the AdSense team, we’d like to wish you a Happy New Year! Posted by Arlene Lee – AdSense Publisher Support>> (more…) Original post by Chris Gilmer
<<[Note: I wrote this about five days ago, and I’m just now getting around to posting it.] Okay, all the other search bloggers are sharing stats, so here goes. All this comes courtesy of Google Analytics. If you want to …
A guide to boredom: Review: GameShark 4-in-1 Charging Stand for Xbox 360 (tags: microsoft xbox360 xbox accessories) Original post by Nathan Weinberg
Happy New Year everybody! Lets hope this year is even better than the last (which, unless you got married like I did, isn’t too hard). Here’s Google’s New Years Doodle: For reference, here are all the previous New Year’s Doodles: …
Here’s some good news: One blogger reports that the AdSense logos appearing with his Google ads are actually matching the colors of the ads themselves, resulting in ads that blend and don’t look like crap. Google has been experimenting with …
Google has had a rash of missteps in the last few day, leaving a negative feeling going into the new year. First off: Google accidently deleted the inboxes of some 60 Gmail users, leaving them with none of their stored …
<<Hi, in case you haven’t been following along at home, I’ll give you the short catch-up info first. Blake Ross wrote a post criticizing some tips that Google recently tried. I agreed that I didn’t like the tips, primarily because …
In BusinessWeek, analyst Tim Boyd of Caris & Co. used Comscore numbers to determine that Google makes between 19 and 21 cents per search executed, totalling just under $5 billion in the first nine months of this year. To compare, …
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On December 27, PayPal announced a “virtual debit card”, letting you make online purchases everywhere MasterCard is accepted. One little problem: Christmas was a few days earlier, meaning the online financial service missed the holiday shopping season for some stupid …
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<<Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog team The definition of “googol” is a number, and Google lives by numbers. So how else should we look back over the year but with numerical bits? Here goes: This post marks the 294th …
<<I wanted to talk about Blake Ross’ post entitled “Trust is hard to gain, easy to lose”. I agree with much of what he says. There’s a continuum to showing tips. Toward the “hawk” side of the spectrum is the …
Google Notebook has a new search feature, and it is exposing the fact that on the internet, some people are just morons. By default, everything in Notebook is set to private, and you have to specifically turn on the feature …
<<Posted By: Rich Godwin – Senior Account ExecutiveHappy Holidays to all of our readers from the CPG team. We wish you all the best for a peaceful, restful and fun holiday season, and we look forward to working with you …
Yahoo!/AOL Merger Implications for Google – SeekingAlpha Here’s a surprise: A clause in Google’s contract with AOL allows for AOL to do some sort of merger with Yahoo or Microsoft. (tags: aol yahoo microsoft google merger) Original post by Nathan …
VideoSift has created a site counting down the top 100 web videos of 2006, 99 of which are from YouTube and Google Video (mostly just YouTube). Here are my favorites of the entire list, which can provide hours of time-wasting …