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Google releases Google Sky!

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Saturday, March 15th 2008   
Topics: Google    
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Google Sky was released yesterday which mean you can now view a large part of the stars via your web browser! The solar system is very well defined and viewable on the web at sky.google.com.
You can find the official Google announcements here at the official google blog and here at the Google earth and maps [...]

Yahoo! Open Search Update

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Friday, March 14th 2008   
Topics: SEM, Search, Yahoo    
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The is a continuation of an earlier post I made that introduces the new Yahoo! Open Search system.
Yesterday, the Yahoo Blog was updated with some more info on how the Yahoo! Open Search system works with a nice example to illustrate what they mean.
Amit Kumar, Director of Product Management at Yahoo! Search published a nice [...]

AOL Buys Social Network Bebo For $850 Million

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Thursday, March 13th 2008   
Topics: Social Networking    
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This acquisition was not expected and came out of nowhere. You can read the full story over at NYTimes
Bebo has a reported 40 million worldwide users and AOL said in its press release earlier today:

“Together with its AIM and ICQ personal communications network, the acquisition will give AOL a premier position in the fast growing [...]

Google releases Ad Manager - a free ad serving platform

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Thursday, March 13th 2008   
Topics: Adsense, Google, Nice tools, Online Marketing    
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Google just announced the launch of Google Ad Manager, which is a FREE ad management tool with all the built in optimization and tracking functions you need in an ad server. This is a HUGE step from Google as they are offering an ad management and serving platform free of charge, which is at the [...]

US Air Force Just Banned all URLs with the word BLOG in them

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Thursday, March 13th 2008   
Topics: Blogging, Wordpress    
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I was quite amazed to read that the US Air force actually banned all websites with the word ‘blog’ in the URL!
Wired has published the whole story here :

“Air Force has imposed bans on all sites with “blog” in their URLs, thus cutting off any sites hosted by Blogspot. The idea isn’t to keep airmen [...]

AdSense Click Fraud in India - How The System Works

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Thursday, March 13th 2008   
Topics: Adsense, Click fraud, Google, PPC, SEM, Web Statistics    
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Click fraud is at an all time high in India. This is because of an industry which exists in India of “work from home” individuals who can generate “easy earnings” by clicking Google AdSense ads.To the left, you will see a newspaper clipping which shows an ad to recruit these types of networks. How does [...]

Google Launches TV Ads in Adwords Platform

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Wednesday, March 12th 2008   
Topics: Adwords, Google, Online Marketing, PPC, Product Marketing, SEM    
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Recently, Google ventured into TV advertising with Google TV Ads. This allows Adwords advertisers to distribute a TV advertisement across various US TV networks using the traditional Google AdWords bidding system. Google TV Ads are still in beta, and users can sign up here to get involved.
Since Google recently entered into the radio and print [...]

Google Adds Secondary Search Box on Result Pages

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Wednesday, March 12th 2008   
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Maybe you have noticed the new Google secondary search box on organic search result pages already? This search box is meant to appear for websites where Google has noted that users frequently refined their searches for that particular website.
This is from the Google blog:

“Through experimentation, we found that presenting users with a search box as [...]

Useful SEO Firefox Extensions

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Wednesday, March 12th 2008   
Topics: Nice tools, SEO    
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The Firefox browser if fast becoming the most popular internet browser and rapidly gaining market share from Internet Explorer. This is mainly due to the endless useful plugin extensions that can be installed into firefox, which extends the browsers functionality in ways we never imagined.
Here are some must have SEO plugins for firefox!
SEO for Firefox [...]

iPhone SDK Downloads Top 100,000

Posted by Chris Baldwin in Wednesday, March 12th 2008   
Topics: Fun Stuff, Future Predictions    Tags: 000, iPhone SDK Downloads Top 100
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Apple announced today that over 100,000 iPhone developers have already downloaded the iPhone beta Software Development Kit (SDK) in the first four days since its launch on March 6.  iPhone SDK gives developers the chance to access the rich API tools (Application Programming Interfaces) that Apple uses to create its applications for the iPhone and [...]

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