Archive for December, 2006

FTC Makes New Disclosure Law For Online Publications

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

If you haven't already heard, the Federal Trade Commision (FTC) recently made changes that affects online publishers. From now on all sponsored and paid advertising on a blog or other type of website must clearly be disclosed so consumers aren't mislead thinking it's an actual endorsement for a product or ...

Google Teams With NASA To Allow Space Exploration From Your Work Station

Monday, December 18th, 2006

Never before have you ever had the chance to take a peek in deep space and look at high resolution maps of the moon and Mars. This will be made available through an agreement between Google and NASA. "This agreement between NASA and Google will soon allow ...

Google Enters Into The Domain Registration Business

Friday, December 15th, 2006

Never one to rest on their laurels, Google recently announced that they are entering the domain registration business. Google is partnering with GoDaddy.com and eNom to provide $10.00 registrations for .com, .net, .biz, .info domains. Domains that are registered using Google's service will have access to a number of their ...

Yahoo Teams Up With New Zealand Telecom

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Today New Zealand Telecom announced that they have joined forces with Yahoo! and Australia's Seven Network to grow out their internet portal Xtra. This joint venture is being done to grow the amount of online content that they provide to New Zealand's web surfers. The Yahoo Xtra joint venture will ...

Yahoo Announces Changes In Search Engine Rankings

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Have you noticed a fluctuation in Yahoo traffic in your log files? If you have, it's because Yahoo! just made some changes to their search index. According to Tim Mayer at the Yahoo Search Blog you might be seeing pages shuffling and rank changes in the next few days. This update ...

Google Bringing Advertisers To The Radio - Google Audio Advertising

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Google has been working to make inroads in many different ways of advertising and their most recent endeavor takes advertisers over the radiowaves. The program is still in limited release, but Google Audio Ads will allow advertisers to buy commercials on radio stations throughout the United States. Advertisers can choose what ...

Google Closing The “Answers” Division

Friday, December 1st, 2006

Sad news from the folks over at Google. They've decided to close their "Answers" division that allowed surfers to ask researchers questions and get answers for a nominal fee. Users can still search the database for questions that were previously answered. Yahoo continues to offer a comparable service at ...