Google Adsense and Competing Pay-per-click Ad Networks
<<EDITOR’S NOTE: In honor of Earth Day and as part of our ongoing Purple Acts of Kindness program, we surprised a green-minded teacher at a Title 1 school near our Hillsboro, Oregon, customer care center by awarding her an eco-tourism …
<<Posted by Chris Dizon, Account Manager, SketchUp A few months ago while I was in San Diego for the ESRI International User Conference , I had the chance to sit down and talk with some very passionate GIS folks from …
<<Some of you may have noticed that we’ve given the Maps API documentation a makeover. If you haven’t looked at the documentation in a while, check it out now; you might learn something new! (I did.) In addition to rewriting …
<<PassPack Author: Francesco Sullo Google APIs used: Google Gears PassPack is a web based password and data tracking tool that now works offline.>> (more…) Original post by Chris Gilmer
I have been playing around with the Google AdSense referrals the past week or so as I have been doing some updating and some client work. And I have definitely discovered some serious pain points with the referrals program. So… …
Microsoft has sent out an email from a corporate spokesman listing the top ten concerns companies should have before switching to Google Apps (top ten? They trying to make Digg? It didn’t work). Mary Jo Foley was the first to …
While everyone is talking abut the comments in Google News, I’d like to talk about five that came across my RSS reader today: On a story about a dinosaur-killing asteroid that supposedly arrived 160 million years ago, Professor Gerta Keller, …
“Apple is the most anti-carrier company there is…. They’re probably already frustrated with AT&T. If they put a few billion behind this, they could build a kick-ass network.” BusinessWeek has a hot story this morning citing two sources who claim …
<<Posted by Daniel Conrad, Senior Business Analyst, Google Joseph Tackie is the CEO of Meaty Foods Limited, a high-end butcher in Ghana. He’s also the winner of last year’s Believe Begin Become (BBB) business plan competition (run by TechnoServe and …
Ionut Alex spotted that Google Trends now has an Atom feed for sucribing in any RSS feed reader. The feed gives you hourly updates on the hottest items people are searching for on Google. It’s become clear the last few …
window.document.getElementById(‘post-3845’).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, a regulator of competition in the country, said that it is beginning an informal inquiry into Google’s purchase of DoubleClick. The Commission is asking those in the industry to submit comments …
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window.document.getElementById(‘post-3845’).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;In an effort to combat YouTube, which has become the first place fans turn to get clips from The Daily Show, Viacom has announced it is preparing a new Daily Show website that will feature entire segments …
Got an email this morning from account.alert7@googlemail.com (googlemail.com is a Gmail email domain, used in countries where Google does not own the Gmail trademark). The email was a standard phishing email, asking for my username and password to “confirm my …
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<<Want to keep track of the local weather in your favorite cities? Check out Rich Chan’s Weather Maps . It uses GME, Yahoo Pipes, and the Weather Channel’s weather API to bring you updated weather and forecasts for cities important …
Does anyone know of a resource that lists click thru rates by Industry? Original post by local-realtor
Google has improved slightly the mobile phone version of Google Reader, adding a new settings page linked from the bottom of every screen. The settings let you increase the number of items displayed per screen from 10 to 20, or …
window.document.getElementById(‘post-3845’).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’; Google has improved the way it tells time. Yes, a minor detail, but they did a neat job improving here. As you can see above, searching google for “time [name of place]” will give you a …
<<Posted by Robin Norvell , orkut Operations Team and orkut Guide Got a question about a feature? Need a refresher on how to manage a community? Our beloved orkut is a work in progress, but we’re always working to improve …
A Digger discovered this oddity in Google’s translator, a biography of Russian tsar Ivan The Terrible (or Ivan IV) in which the title character’s name is translated into “Abraham Lincoln”. Weird. Google translates Øòðý Óрþ÷ýыù – àþÑÂÑÂøѠas “Abraham Lincoln …
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