In an interview with Bloomberg Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that Google search advertising partnership with Yahoo! is preceding to start in early October. He also said that regulators have so far “not indicated one way or the other how they’re dealing with us.” The partnership is currently under review by U.S. state and federal [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Google CEO Says Yahoo Partnership On Track To Start in Early October
Friday, August 29th, 2008Target Settles Lawsuit Over Blind Accessibility to Website
Thursday, August 28th, 2008Target has settled a lawsuit over the inability of the blind to access their website. CNET News reports that Target will establish a $6 million dollar fund for settlement claims and promised to “make its site fully accessible to blind visitors”. The basis of the suit was that the lack alt-text tags for images on [...]
Google Adds Search Suggestion Feature to Google Search
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008In a post on the Official Google Blog, it was announced that Google Suggest, Google’s search suggestion feature, will be a part of Google’s homepage. The feature provides suggested search terms in drop box below the search box as a search query is being typed into the search box. For example, if baseball were typed [...]
Microsoft Restarts Talks Over Disposal of Avenue A/Razorfish
Monday, August 25th, 2008According to AdAge, Microsoft has restarted talks with advertising agency WPP to get rid of Avenue A/Razorfish. Microsoft acquired Avenue A/Razorfish as part of is deal for aQuantive that was completed in august of last year. The contemplated deal would swap Avenue A/Razorfish for WPP subsidiary 24/7 Real Media’s publisher ad-serving tool Open AdStream and [...]
Yahoo Launches Updated Site Explorer
Thursday, August 21st, 2008The Yahoo! Search Blog today announced the release of an update of Site Explorer, it’s service similar to Google’s and MSN/Live Search’s Webmaster Tools. The update brings a new interface to accommodate unspecified future feature roll outs. The number rules for Dynamic URL Rewriting was increased from 3 to 10 as part of the update. [...]
Google Adds New Features to Website Optimizer
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008Google has updated Website Optimizer, it’s content testing and optimization tool, with a few new features. The most significant change is the ability remove poorly performing combinations during the experiment. Offline validation of pages used in A/B tests and more intuitive reporting of how the various combinations are performing were also added. Source: Inside AdWords [...]
July U.S. Search Share Results
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008Nielsen Online today released it rankings of U.S. search share for July. Overall search grew 3 percent year over year to 8 billion searches. Google had year over year growth of 16 percent and received 60.2 percent of searches. Yahoo! had a year over year decline of 11 percent and received 17.4 percent of searches. [...]
Google Publicly Launches of AdSense for Feeds
Friday, August 15th, 2008In a post on the Inside AdSense Blog, it was announced that AdSense for feeds was made publicly available today. According to CNET News, it was “soft-launched to a small group of AdSense users back in May.” AdSense for feeds integrates ads into RSS feeds through Google’s FeedBurner. According to Google, they will be selling [...]
Movable Type 4.2 Released
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Yesterday, Movable Type announced the release of version 4.2 of Movable Type. The update adds threaded comments, built in support for TypePad AntiSpam, and redesigned template and widget management areas. The update adds the option to search assets, comments, TrackBacks, users, and custom data types or use another search backend. Like the most recent update [...]
AOL’s Platform-A Introduces Affiliate Marketing for Widgets
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008AOL’s Platform-A has linked up two of recent acquisition to introduce affiliate marketing into widget ads, which AOL claims is a “first-of-its-kind solution” according to their press release. The new service combines services of widget creation and analytics technology company Goowy and affiliate marketing network buy.at, both acquired by AOL in February. The service provides [...]
