From the monthly archives:

November 2008

New Ad Format For Image Search

November 28, 2008

Had to redact the terms (sorry) but here’s a new advertising format I cam across while doing image searchs

Google Search Wiki – Like Forcing You To Eat The Heart of a Live Cobra

November 24, 2008

Last week Google announced the release of a new project known as the search wiki. This represents another step where google shows complete disregard for their users, ignoring what they want, and instead forcing them to participate in what can only be described as a plan that was never fully thought out and was ill [...]

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New Link Advertising Program InLinks.com from Text Link Ads

November 20, 2008

Yesterday, Text-Link-Ads launched a new service InLinks, that places ads inside the content part of blog posts (full disclosure TLA is an advertiser on this blog). I’ve seen this service in use for a while and it does really good job of not leaving a footprint that is detectable to the external user.

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Google iPhone Voice Search – It’s All About the Ads

November 18, 2008

I was lucky enough to have lunch with Matt Cutts last friday, and one of the things we spoke about was the Google voice search application that was (FINALLY) released today. After playing with it for about half an hour this morning I have to admit it’s pretty darn useful. If you speak slowly and [...]

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Las Vegas Pubcon 2008 Wrap Up

November 18, 2008

As I try and dig my way through my overflowing post conference inbox, and mostly overdue Remember the Milk to do list I thought I’d take a few minutes and share my thoughts on Pubcon 2008.

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Google and The Flu

November 16, 2008

Recently Google announced how their flu tracking system worked using data from Google trends. While I appluad Google for thier open discussion, I personally believe this logic is flawed. It’s a systemic problem that occurs throughout Google because of their insular workflow and thought process (see how could so many PHD’s be wrong). IMHO google [...]

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New Website ViralConversations.com

November 6, 2008

So if you’ve been wondering where I’ve been the past week, I’ve been putting the finishing touches on a new website ViralConversations.com. The idea behind Viral Conversations is putting business owners who have a product or service, in touch with bloggers who are interested in reviewing it. The difference between this website and other website [...]

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