Category Archives: Search Engines

Yahoo Acquires del.icio.us

Edition #11 – 12/11/2005 In a move that was easily predicted, and not the least bit surprising to me, Yahoo acquired del.icio.us, the social bookmarking site favored by many bloggers. From the del.icio.us blog… We’re proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we’ll continue to improve how people discover, remember and… Read More »

Google Adwords Length Experiment

Edition #4 – 10/28/2005 I’ve been invited for a second time to participate in Google’s ad length experiment. Here’s part of the email from them… Hello from the Google AdWords Team, Thanks for your earlier participation in our longer ad text experiments. Previously, you created ads up to 200 characters long for us to test… Read More »

Search Engine Corruption: Part Two

Edition #2 – 10/25/2005 This is a part two to my recent post about possible search engine conspiracy theories and corruption in the dark world of search marketing. Another area that I’d like to bring to attention is file sharing. As you probably know, sharing copyrighted media and sites that promote and facilitate the sharing… Read More »

Search Engine Corruption

Edition #1 – 10/23/2005 I had an interesting conversation last night with a fellow online marketer, Don from the Article Bot. He showed me a series of evidence which basically proves that the major search engines aren’t being honest with the general public, or their advertisers. I won’t take you through the full list of… Read More »