A recent New York assemblyman called Richard L. Brodsky has put together a bill that if passed will make it punishable or even illegal to collect personal information about internet user and the clicks they make on advertisements.
He assemblyman stated:
“Should these companies be able to sell or use what’s essentially private data without permission? The [...]

The latest Google launch (an boy have they been busy lately!!) is the “Category Exclusion tool” for Google Adwords advertisers. Basically, what this tool allows you to do is block your ads from appearing on poor quality sites that are not converting for you.
It is a great move from Google to fight against the ever [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I just came across this very attractive and potentially influential search engine Searchme.com
I think it is worth the mention and watching the 2 promotional videos below which will give you a very good feel at how exactly this search engine works and how it is different from the others.
Introduction to Searchme
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In case you missed it, yesturday Google Adwords team announced that they will now use the loading time of your Adwords landing page as one of the measures of the ‘quality score’ they give you in order to determine how much to charge you per click compared to your competitor.
If you are managing Google ads, [...]

This is something I have been giving considerable thought to the past few months. I did not get around to sharing some of my 2008 SEO and online marketing predictions yet but since it is march already and there is about to be a big shift in the seo and online marketing industry this year [...]

Yahoo! just announced the new approach they are about to implement for returning search query information. This is quite interesting and actually makes a lot of sense to me. I applaud them for the foresight they are displaying and really hope with this new implementation that they can re-gain some of the market share lost [...]