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January 18th, 2008

Placement Targeting

About Google Adwords
And motivated by a thread at the Warrior Forum;
What is placement-targeting?
“Placement targeting (formerly called site targeting) lets AdWords advertisers choose individual spots in the Google content network where they’d like their ads to appear. A placement might be an entire website or a subset of a site, such as only the sports pages […]

By Mark -- 1 comment

January 14th, 2008

Hoping To Get A Piece Of The Android Pie

Introducing the first Android prototype
A small software developer, A La Mobile, based in San Ramon, Calif., on Monday plans to unveil a suite of applications — browser, camera, games and more — based on the new Google-endorsed operating system, Android.

A La Mobile applications (installed on a smartphone from HTC, the Qtek 9090) include: a Google […]

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January 11th, 2008

Google Expanding Their Lobbying Operation in D.C.

And quite a lot more…
From The New Yorker: “Annals of Communication - The Search Party”

“In June, 2006, Sergey Brin, one of the co-founders of Google, went to Washington, D.C., hoping to create a little good will. Google was something of a Washington oddity then. Although it was a multibillion-dollar company, with enormous power, it had […]

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December 19th, 2007

You’ll Just Have To Work Harder To Win The $10 Million!

You’ll Just Have To Work Harder To Win The $10 Million!
You’d think that intelligent folk would understand that Google’s Android would require a developmental period as opposed to being ready to go out of the box.

Come on…
According to Scott Morrison of The Wall Street Journal and Adam MacBeth, Android is buggy so far. I agree […]

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December 17th, 2007

Look No Further Googs - I’ll Be Your CFO

Don’t take me seriously… :)
Help Wanted: A Vacancy In Google’s Top Ranks

Hey! I fit the qualifications!
There is one job the search giant seems to be having a hard time filling: chief financial officer.
Since August, the Mountain View, Calif., company has been looking for a replacement for retiring CFO George Reyes.
Although the prestige of working at […]

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December 3rd, 2007

Buying Or Selling Links That Pass PageRank?

Well… you probably won’t be advertising on Google anymore.
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Webmaster Guidelines Violations
Don’t promote unacceptable webmaster techniques.
“Advertising is not permitted for the promotion of cloaking, keyword stuffing, search engine spamming, and doorway pages. These unacceptable techniques and services are described in the Google Webmaster Guidelines. Ads and sites promoting such techniques will be disapproved.”
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Matt Cutts authored a […]

By Mark -- 3 comments

November 28th, 2007

Android - $10 Million On The Table - For You?

Lest you forget! There’s $10 Million of Google’s money available to those of you talented enough to come up with some mobile applications for Android.

How It Works (from the Android Developer Challenge )

Tags: Android, Android-Developer-Challenge, Google, Mobile-Applications, Open-Handset-Alliance

By Mark -- 3 comments

November 27th, 2007

Attention: Engineers and Energy Experts - Google Wants You!

Google’s Goal: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal
Creates renewable energy R&D group and supports breakthrough technologies
It’s announcements like these that offer me personal hope for our society at large. Someone is willing to do something different, someone who is different, someone who is not part of that old, established “good old boy” network of […]

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November 25th, 2007

Google’s Search Share Increases

Google’s search share jumps
“Google Inc. enjoyed one of its biggest monthly gains in U.S. Web search market share in October, building on consistent gains over the past two years, according to industry data out on Wednesday.
Market research firm comScore Inc said Google’s core Web search properties captured 58.5 percent of the U.S. market in October, […]

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November 20th, 2007

Worth Passing Along

And… yes, they gave permission.
Chitika + Google -Expert Ad Placement Publisher Tips In a Mini Expert Series on The Chitika Blog
5 TIPS:
Using Chitika MPU with Google Adsense -TIP #1
“The main advantage of this combination is that it doesn’t look like an obtrusive ad that visitors might want to avoid.” Read More…
Matching Placement and Context -TIP […]

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November 13th, 2007

Speaking Of Internet Advertising!

It gets even better…
INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES IN Q3 ’07 SURPASS $5.2 BILLION, SETTING NEW HIGH
“The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) today announced that Internet advertising revenues exceeded $5.2 billion for the third quarter of 2007, representing yet another historic high for a quarter and a $1.1 billion increase, or 25.3 percent, over […]

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October 7th, 2007

Fear? Think This Is A Stretch Do You?

Monks Are Silenced, and for Now, Internet Is, Too

Don’t think it could happen? The original story (and one that we all ought to pay life or death attention to);
“It was about as simple and uncomplicated as shooting demonstrators in the streets. Embarrassed by smuggled video and photographs that showed their people rising up against them, […]

By Mark -- 5 comments

October 4th, 2007

Net Neutrality, Google, Sprint, WiMax, Xohm

Really? This is some package, to me. If you don’t, I do, find it very interesting to put this complete scenario together in my mind.
First is the Teamsters announcement of their support for Net Neutrality, “Hoffa Urges Senate to Act on Net Neutrality to Protect Freedom of Speech,” pointed to by Matt Stoller. “Kovie” offered […]

By Mark -- 4 comments

September 18th, 2007

Ads On The Move

“You can start monetizing your mobile site by accessing a growing number of our mobile advertisers.”
Good for you, bad for others? Interesting…
“If you have a mobile-compliant website that complies with our program policies, you’re welcome to participate in AdSense for mobile.”
Well, of course Darren would somehow be the first to let us know about Adsense […]

By Mark -- 1 comment

August 24th, 2007

I Like Eric Schmidt More Every Day!

This is truly serious business folks! Come on - you have just got to realize that your opportunities to make money on the Internet as we know it today are about to blow up in our collective faces and Eric Schmidt from Google is doing everything he can to avoid that!
Eric had the nerve (audacity, […]

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