***Update: The Googlebot has ringtonerevue. It looks like it cached the site less then 3 hours after posting this link on the blog. “This is G o o g l e’s cache of http://www.ringtonerevue.com/ as retrieved on 9 May 2007 05:03:55 GMT.” The post was set to GMT time as well “ […]

The Motley Fool, in typical Foolish ways, makes a bold sounding statement that Google is the worst stock for 2007, based upon the premise that increased competition from Yahoo and Microsoft, combined with a fickle online ad market, will eat into Google’s growth.  These arguments really don’t have any merit. At the moment, Yahoo and […]

I guess we have officially entered a new age — the Wall Street Journal is feeling the blog love. Search engine watch reports that the WSJ has started to consider restructuring some of efforts to have more dynamic blogs. Half the fun is in the comments and that is what is really defining the new […]

Many out there have talked about Microsoft and their possibility of acquiring Yahoo to help compete against Google in the search and online space. Jeremy Shoemaker gave 10 reasons why they would buy yahoo but I’m not sure it is going to happen or execute well if it does.
One of the major problems is Culture […]

The Google Blog recently posted about audio captchas — basically a way to have human authentication for people who cannot visually see web pages. Most blogs or other places using verification schemes tend to show a visually skewed image that a user must decode and enter in order to post a blog comment, signup for […]

So Google just announced they are going to release more then a trillion unique words they have grabbed from pages. As a search engine marketer and general lover of words and phrases, this is like pure gold. Check out this example for Britany Spears
I think marketers in every aspect of the search industry should check […]

Saw this via searchenginewatch that OneStat had a study that less people are using one word queries then they were last year. Um, ok, yeah? As people use search engines more they will realize one word really isn’t enough.
Though I am not sure their sample size is a good one. 2 million visitors? Some websites […]

Recently there has been quite a lot of brouhaha (great word isn’t it?) about Google’s new Landing Page “Quality Score” and the effect it is having on some marketers. There are a range of rumors flying around from this is an attempt for Google to raise prices across the board to it is a conspiracy […]

So, I haven’t had this blog up for very long. A few posts here and there, but I have definitely been discovered by the spam bots. I am sure not as much as most people, but every day it seems like there are 30 more comments about viagra, or cialis, or random link.
It reminds me […]

Eric Picard had an interesting article yesterday regarding AJAX and how it is throwing off the traditional ways of measuring page views or impressions of advertising at sites. Given that many of the new fancy web 2.0 sites written with ajax calls are actually changing the page without reloading the page, the traditional measurement for […]