7 month ago
nelson : Google/Yahoo analysis - Insightful reading of Google's strategy with advertising
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8 month ago
deusx : The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Google putting up fence and gate to keep execs from leaving - "And you know what? There is something really evil about taking thousands of the world's smartest young people and using them to sell online text ads more efficiently. Really"
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17 month ago
nelson : Microsoft and Facebook - I'd forgotten that Microsoft has an exclusive ad deal on Facebook
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31 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : The Counterattack On Google - The Counterattack On Google: "Sifting through paperwork, number crunchers at rival Yahoo! Inc. were stunned to realize just how much more profit Google generated, compared with Yahoo, from its system of selling ads on Web searches."
plasticbag : Business Week wrote an article a little while back about the ways in which Microsoft and Yahoo are responding to Google's dominance in the search ad market - I'm obviously not going to comment on it in any formal capacity - it's not an area that I work closely with for a start - but it's a pretty interesting read nonetheless.
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37 month ago
Andy Baio : Google Analytics - free, gorgeous web stats package, with site overlays; so that's why they bought Urchin
kayodeok : Google Analytics - Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. You'll be able to focus your marketing resources on campaigns and initiatives that deliver ROI, and improve your site to convert
Rod Begbie : Google Analytics - Google continues their quest to consume every nibble of data on the internet -- This time, site access logs. [via] #
jimray : Google Analytics - So this is what they did with Urchin...
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39 month ago
kayodeok : Google Goes Las Vegas - An AdWords Experiment Shows Why at Google, the House Always Wins
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45 month ago
Anne van Kesteren : A Response to the Noise - That clarifies a bit. Good that the ads are gone. #
kayodeok : Wordpress Website's Search Engine Spam:� Matt Responds to the Noise - Matt does his best to clarify his thinking behind accepting the advertising
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45 month ago
jkottke : Wordpress is using its high Page Rank to game Google AdWords - This stinks like last week's fish. Is Wordpress and wordpress.org an open source project like we've all been told or is it a company? Either way, contributing to spam noise on the web is annoying.
Wayne Burkett : Waxy.org: Wordpress Website's Search Engine Spam - Ugh. They're even hiding links to the articles on the front page by positioning them offscreen with CSS. This is sleazy stuff. #
kayodeok : Waxy.org: Daily Log: Wordpress Website's Search Engine Spam - WordPress is using it's high pagerank to game Google Adwords. Links to around 120,000 articles were hidden via CSS. Unethical.
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