Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
After providing 45 million dollars in second round funding last October to Right Media, Yahoo has bought out the remainder of the company in a $680 million dollar deal which will be payable to shareholders in cash and stock.
The acquisition is expected to help boost Yahoo's competitive edge in ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
If you have a search function on your website and it allows for publicly accessible searches to be performed, keep in mind that Google has said these search results must be dis-allowed from being crawled or your website can end up in trouble.
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
The latest announcement from Myspace is looking to change the way politics are done.
Myspace is launching a new political reality show called "Independant" and will offer a 1 million dollar cash prize that the winner doesn't get to keep. Instead the winner will get to use the money for ...
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Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Recently Yahoo announced that they are adding a song lyric library that will allow users to access the words to over 400,000 songs.
This new service is being offered with Gracenote a company based in Emeryville that has negotiated deals with thousands of publishers who own the lyric copyrights. This ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
It's a great idea to add a blog to your website, but it's also a ton of work. Over time, your priorities tend to change, so you might not be as motivated as you used to be when it comes time to post. If your blog dies off ...
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
If you count on achieving high search engine rankings, you've often heard how important it is to get "links" to your web pages. Of course this is true, but some links are much more beneficial than others. The best page you can get a link from is one ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Myspace recently announced that they are adding a news portal to their website.
This news portal is expected to work much like Digg and Netscape, but Myspace will search for news from online journals and other news sites. Digg and Netscape both rely on user generated stories.
Myspace will allow ...
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
comScore recently announced search market share for the month of March.
There were 7.3 billion Internet searches in March 2007, up 14% from March 2006.
Google led with 48.3% of search, Yahoo held 27.5%, followed by MSN at 10.9%, Ask Network with 5.2% and Time Warner Network at 5.0%.
How many queries do ...
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
Everyone always tells new internet marketers to "pick a niche", and it's great advice. But you have to consider some additional advice, like, pick a niche that is actually popular, or you're in for some low-traffic numbers. When you invest in stocks, you're always taught that the stocks ...
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
Media is the hot topic of the day and GE is jumping into the arena with 250 million dollars. They are investing in companies that are involved in digital advertising, mobile advertising or social networks that can help build digital business for NBC Universal.
"It basically is a way for ...
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