Business Issues
Google signed a multi year deal with Fox interactive guaranteeing a minimum $900 million payout through the middle of 2010 to provide MySpace search and contextual ads. Danny has more on the potential ups and downs of the relationship.
AOL may have just stole their own crown. Cloning better technology then stupidifying it is not enough to truly make AOL AOL. Where others look to raise the bar, AOL looks to lower it, only to trip over it, and knock themselves out by slamming head first into a fire hydrant.
- By: "Anonymous Scaredy Cat" - 7th Aug 2006
shoemoney coming fresh off of the defcon security conference gives great advice to those about to goto the search engines strategies conference
Google and MTV sign deal for MTV videos on Google Video Search Full Story
A Times Report says that Apple have announced that it may have to "restate its results". The announcement stunned the market, with close to $3 billion (£1.6 billion) wiped off Apple’s market value.
..defiled the purity of SEO by introducing hand moderation of results?
Yes I know there are two ways this question can be answered and I'm interested in opinions on both.
5,000 of the company's 19,000 worldwide positions would be eliminated, Google, Yahoo and MSN cited as part of the reason, Full Story
No reason given. Looks like it lasted almost 18 months. The things that make you
Google and Associated Press have settled their fairly long running copyright wrangles, and Google will now be paying to run AP news and pictures on their site.
I wonder how soon other publishers will be demanding a slice of that income cake ?
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Online search engine Google Inc. said it reached a deal with XM Satellite Radio on Wednesday to have its commercial advertising available on the radio service's non-music channels.
I thought the draw to satellite radio was no ads but maybe G$$G can "blend" them with the content.
It's now official - after much speculation AOL will give away e-mail accounts and software now available only to its paying customers in a strategy shift likely to accelerate the decline in its core Internet access business.
English folk singer Billy Bragg pulled his music off of MySpace in May due to concerns over intellectual property rights.
- By: Gilad - 31st Jul 2006
The fight over web payments is stepping up the ladder, and paypal looks like it's trying to put their hands on new businesses
I got mail from CJ today offering a new paypal affiliate program (link - you shoul be a CJ member):
You can earn up to $23 for every new PayPal Business or Premier account you refer under our new PayPal affiliate program. Make top commissions when your referred merchants start receiving off-eBay payments ? sign up now!
Chief executive of Lycos Europe claims that US firms are advantaged compared to European online firms.
El Reg reports on something that has been happening to me with a Dell. Bloody thing just switches off. I couldn't work out what was causing it, but this article pin points the answer. A mobile phone near your hard disk, incoming message to the phone, Dell switches off.
In its filing Monday seeking to dismiss the case, Torrentspy argued that the MPAA might as well have sued Google Inc., since Google does what Torrentspy does, only better. Torrentspy is a search engine that helps visitors find torrent files, which are often music or movie files stored in an easily shared file format.
It appears that Google is going hog-wild with all sorts of new under construction products such as Google Events, Google Guess, Google Online Assessment, Google Real Estate Search, Google RS2, Mobile Marketplace... the list goes on forever.
Anyone doing any basic level of seo is using mod_rewrite to make thier urls pretty.
Today the Apache Foundation released versions to fix the exploit within mod_rewrite.
Upgrade your servers and urge your providers to do so asap.
It was analyst day for Microsoft, their first ever that didn't include Bill Gates. According to the recap in Forbes
