Newsletter Archive: 2009


Google Public Data Search and Charts
In the recent Wolfram Alpha demonstration, Google announced the launch of their structured data feature.

Date: 2009-04-30
Google Deciding Your News Interests
According to Hollywood reporter Sharon Waxman, Google could soon decide which news you should be reading on a daily basis. Waxman cornered Google CEO Eric Schmidt and grilled him asked him over cocktails to share his vision for Google News.

Date: 2009-04-29
Just Say No, Yahoo!
I've always been kind of partial to Yahoo walking away from Microsofts overtures. I've seen what Microsoft has done and despite the fact that their combined traffic might be the only entity that could keep Google from a total monopoly...

Date: 2009-04-28
Google Toolbar Lab Now Open
Dont have anything to do this weekend? Wondering how you are going to fill the hours between now and whenever then is for you? How about kicking around the new Google Toolbar Labs for a while.

Date: 2009-04-27
Google Mobile Product Search
Google is one of many companies that's been pushing the various capabilities of mobile devices and exploring how to make its vast storehouse of search data accessible in novel and interesting ways to people with the G-1 (the so-called Google Phone) and the Apple iPhone.

Date: 2009-04-24
pubCenter Now Open
Microsoft is rolling out its answer to Googles AdSense and the Yahoo Publisher Network with its new pubCenter beta. It is open to all and publishers can sign up for free at the pubCenter site reports cnet.

Date: 2009-04-23
Yahoo's Time to Deal with Microsoft?
Yahoo posted its first quarter earnings report today. The company adjusted analyst expectations in January by announcing they expected to make as little as $1.1B in net revenue.

Date: 2009-04-22
Google Profiles Will Not Kill Facebook
Recently, I suggested that Google might replace Facebook. I was talking about Google Profiles but I must apologize for my over-enthusiasm.

Date: 2009-04-20
Search Engine Oparla First Cash Draw
Oparla, the all new search engine that pays users to surf the net, marked its launch this week with its first ever daily cash payout. The inaugural prize draw was made by the engines founder, British entrepreneur Daniel Jupp at Oparla...

Date: 2009-04-17
More Layoffs and Deals
With the confirmation that Yahoo and Microsoft have renewed their potential partnership discussions, analysts have taken a look at the new potential deals&mdahs;and they say that Yahoo stands to benefit in several scenarios.

Date: 2009-04-16
Local Search On The Rise
As the population with internet access explodes, and more and more people are using search engines to find what they need, the usage of local search also continues to rise.

Date: 2009-04-15
SEMPO State of Search Report
SEMPO, Search Marketings professional body, has released its hotly anticipated annual report. The report provides a valuable analysis on the state of the Search Marketing industry, based on feedback from over 800 respondents...

Date: 2009-04-14
Search Talk with Yahoo and Microsoft
No, I havent gotten confused about what year it is"Yahoo and Microsoft are once again discussing a search proposal. Well, color me so-freakin-tired-of-this-story.

Date: 2009-04-13
Microsoft Searching
Not so many columns ago, I urged Microsoft to do something amazing in search. Last week, they did. But it wasn't in a good way. I was on the road last week, and I saw three different things land in my inbox about Microsoft and its search efforts.

Date: 2009-04-10
Yahoo Island Hopping
Yahoo is still lurking around every corner. A Reuters article gives a peek into what the folks at the perpetual Google chaser are doing to try to harness the large number of visitors it gets on a monthly basis to its disparate properties.

Date: 2009-04-09
Video and Mobile Search
Online advertisers are embracing new marketing platforms and an increasing willingness to pay more for targeted reach through behavioral targeting and local search, and to expand marketing through video and mobile search, according....

Date: 2009-04-08
Google Larger Than Life
We live a world that talks about winners and losers all the time. Trouble is its OK to lose big because Hey, were only human and we love to give second chances.

Date: 2009-04-07
The Dark Side of SEO
I recently read a story in Forbes about how Rupert Murdock thinks Google is undermining copyright "Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights?" asked the News Corp. chief at a cable industry confab in Washington, D.C., Thursday

Date: 2009-04-06
Twitter To Be Googled?
I suppose speculation that Google is in talks to acquire Twitter should surprise nobody. The story I saw early this morning in TechCrunch is based on information they say they have obtained from trusted sources close to the negotiations.

Date: 2009-04-03
Google Settles
A lawsuit that was originally filed in Santa Clara in 2005 which claimed Google overcharged search marketers by charging over their daily spend limit was settled for about $20 million as reported by MediaPost.

Date: 2009-04-02
Google Sells
For years now, Google and Yahoo have been making a significant portion of their income on the paid sponsored ads to the right of the search listings, and that is about to expand.

Date: 2009-04-01
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