Look at the way Google opens Yahoo’s stock quote page in a frame with Google’s logo in the top left. Admittedly they also provide links to Fool.com, MSN MoneyCentral, etc. And they probably have some sort of agreement that they are allowed to do it. However, this is what people used to do in the […]

Non-profits rejoice! The Google Grants program is taking applications again. If you’re unfamiliar with Google Grants, it’s an allowance of free Google AdWords advertising for worthy non-profits. Here’s a short description of the program from Google: “The Google Grants program is designed to help nonprofit organizations like yours further their goals and objectives through targeted, […]

Google has recently changed their AdSense policy on the number of add blocks you can display per page if you are part of Google’s AdSense program. That’s the program whereby websites can get paid for displaying Google ads on their web pages. Now you can display up to three ad units per page, according to […]

A survey of Internet users done by the Ponemon Institute and reported on by USA Today found that online advertising is despised, yet people still respond to them. Here’s a synopsis of the Ponemon Institute’s findings: Close to 80% of those surveyed always find pop-up ads annoying. More than 60% always find e-mail spam always […]

David Naylor from Bronco, who was one of the speakers at the Organic Listings Forum session at the Search Engine Strategies conference, advised site owners to have a robots.txt file, even if it’s just an empty file, because Ask Jeeves’ spider seems to favor web sites that have one. Anyone noticed an improvement with your […]

There’s a new search engine on the block… or should I say, in the ‘hood? 😉 It’s called Aks Jeeves. No, that’s not a typo; it’s a spoof of Ask Jeeves, and man, is it funny! (Note: Parental guidance suggested. Or if you’re easily offended, you might want to pass on this one.)

According to The Register, Google is headhunting staff to build a web browser. Apparently, staff have already been poached from Microsoft and Sun. I, like many others, welcome a Google web browser to displace Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the dominant browser. Just imagine… a second “browser war,” but this one could actually have a happy […]

Want to listen to me rant and rave about the power of RSS as a content delivery channel for search marketers? That was a rhetorical question. Frankly, who wouldn’t! 😉 So now you get your chance, on my interview on the Chris Pirillo Show, which was just podcasted today. Chris interviewed me last week at […]

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Google’s estimated numbers of search results per query aren’t to be trusted? Hmm… kinda looks that way. Certainly Yahoo’s numbers appear to more believable from this little study. Google releases an API for Google AdWords – an Application Programming Interface for manipulating your AdWords account programatically without having to do screen scraping. Way cool! Google […]