This hilarious video is going viral thanks to influential bloggers like Seth Godin and Rick Bruner. It takes a while to load, so be patient. Business 2.0 called podcasting the “democratization of broadcasting.” Think: pirate Internet radio DJs in their underwear. I imagine videos like these are what we’ll get when podcasters go from audio-only […]

MarketingProfs has published my article: “How Does MSN Search Stack Up to Google and Yahoo?.” This one is different from my last week’s article on MarketingProfs (“What Web Marketers Must Know About the New MSN Search“), in that it’s a side-by-side comparison of the top three search engines — essential stats, tolerance levels for “worst […]

A few days before Christmas, Microsoft’s MSN Search team announced their MSN Search Wiki. The word quickly spread to blogs like ResearchBuzz and Google Blogoscoped. Of the major search engines, MSN Search is the only one to employ wikis as a way to encourage customer participation in the product development process. Hats off to Microsoft […]

A couple months ago I shared one of my Google secrets, since that secret no longer worked. 😉 Specifically, it was how to obtain a list of the most important web sites according to Google. Now, surprisingly, this little trick appears to work again (it stopped working in 2003), thanks to a bug introduced into […]

Lots of Google-related happenings of late. Here’s a quick list: Google Scholar released a new advanced search interface (SearchEngineWatch Blog) CBS’ 60 Minutes gets up-close and personal with Google (you can watch the segment here) Google publishes their 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist, with a cool interactive summary of the data done in Flash. Google Labs […]

The Pew Internet & American Life Research Project just released a new study on blog uptake. Here are the highlights: 7% of the 120 million U.S. adults who use the internet say they have created a blog or web-based diary. That represents more than 8 million people. 27% of internet users say they read blogs, […]

Rumor has it that the MSN Search beta will make its official debut on MSN.com on February 1st. The source (a moderator at SearchEngineWatch Forums) seems credible, so I would put some stock in the claim. I’ve written an article about the new MSN Search technology — a kind of a “how-to” for marketers — […]

Get ’em while they’re hot! Beginner’s Guide to Business Blogging by business blogging & copywriting guru Debbie Weil. Available free until January 25. Get this one NOW! Marketing Wisdom for 2005 published by MarketingSherpa. Contains 105 real-life stories and tips for marketers, from marketers.

If you haven’t heard about RSS yet, you need to check it out! RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a standard designed for syndicating headlines and other web content to other websites. It has evolved into a popular means for individuals to keep up with the latest articles and musings across favorite websites — using RSS […]

I see that one of my favourite blogs, Signal vs. Noise is piloting text ads in their RSS feed. So far this is going over like a lead balloon, judging from the 120 comments posted after their announcement. Very few of the comments were positive — indeed a number were taken aback that 37 signals […]