***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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I saw a post today on Jeremey Zawodny’s blog and he mentioned that a year after no-follow was introduced and agreed upon by many of the major blog owners, comment spam is as rife as ever and that there has been a change in how people comment. I made a comment on his blog and […]

So this blog has had a few posts over the past month and I just received the first piece of comment spam. The site had technically been live a bit before that but no blog feature or anything detectable, such as the nice “powered by wordpress” that can be used to find blogs in google […]

So it appears that the news has been broken today that Yahoo is upgrading their search advertising system to be a little bit more like…Google. In many senses this is likely a good move, given the difficulty and problems many search advertisers (like myself and the people I work with) have had dealing with the […]

Screenshots of a few problems with the launch of Microsoft AdCenter on day one.