Old habits die hard… or perhaps they can be put to good use. The ex-media mogul Barry Diller is using the power of mainstream media to promote the search engine ASK.com, that his company IAC recently acquired. Ask.com is running AWESOME ads on TV featuring the creator of Ask.com (Teoma) Apostolos Gerasoulis. You can see them [...] [...more]
I came across this on Mook-Jon’s blog — Yahoo! Publisher Network is now offering direct deposit facility, i.e. they will directly deposit your earnings into your bank account on the 26th of every month, instead of the 10th of the following month. Here’s the letter Jon got : Dear Jon, We’ve just made receiving your Yahoo! Publisher Network [...] [...more]
Here’s what I got in my inbox a few hours ago! This court-ordered notice may affect your legal rights. Please read it carefully. If you purchased online advertising from Google between January 1, 2002 and the present, you are a class member in a class-action lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Miller County, Arkansas. This notice [...] [...more]
Yahoo is tweaking its homepage again and the preview is up! What’s notable about this redesign? 1. Yahoo is moving away from 800px width to 1024px. 2. Re-inforces that Yahoo is a complete portal rather than just a search engine. 3. The right menu is all AJAXed up and so Web 2.0ish! 4. More focus on Market Place. 5. Excellent [...] [...more]
Phew! Sometimes I wish there were 48 hours in a day… and today is one such day that I am really wishing there were 48 hours in a day. But, I really had to blog about something that has been amusing me since morning. TBH I wanted to blog it on a new site I am [...] [...more]
Matt Cutts — the voice of Google — has posed a comment on his blog explaining Google’s perspective on Cloaking & IP Delivery. Lookie – IP delivery: delivering results to users based on IP address. Cloaking: showing different pages to users than to search engines. IP delivery includes things like “users from Britain get sent to the [...] [...more]
Matt Cutts has confirmed that Google is in economy mode and is trying to save some bandwidth by combining GoogleBot and MediaBot (AdSense Bot) — in response to the speculations fired up by Jen. Matt said it is a bandwidth saving feature to have GoogleBot and MediaBot both contributing to big daddy. Matt also stated that [...] [...more]
Ever since Google came up with AdSense, there have been speculations about it! Can place AdSense on your pages pump-up the ranking of your website in Google Search Engine? The answer from Google’s side has been, obviously, a BIG no! However, a blog post by Jen, the authority on Contextual Advertising, titled — AdSense mediapartners bot adding [...] [...more]
While reading responses to a thread I discussed about in another post ( Is SEO over-rated?), I came across a link to BBC’s site about a recently released research about how people search. According to a survey conducted by Jupiter Research and marketing firm iProspect, most people using a search engine expect to find what they [...] [...more]
Yeah really! When I first read on Search Engine Watch that Google has released Google Calendar, it was more life a dream come true for me. Now I am a GMail addict! I ditched MS Outlook a long time ago. GMail works great at managing my communications and my contacts. However, the only thing that [...] [...more]
This is a viral video from Youtube that is getting a lot of attention.
I will let the author set the scene:
It was back in Oct 2005.
My wedding was about a month to go and I decided to make a memorable event for my future wife. But, I and she were working and due to preparation of wedding, I didn’t have enough budgets for expensive proposal. While I was considering for the event, I remembered what she said in the past. “Wow it would be great if I can get a chance to go in the room with full of yellow post it just like Sang Sang Plus” (Sang Sang Plus is one of the famous talk show (TV program) in Korea and they prepare a room with full of yellow post it - questions from fans to famous celebrity)
I wrote all the happy memories that I had with my wife in 5,940 post it. It took me 4 days & 5 nights to write everything and post it in the bathroom. (I tried main living room first, but, due to surface of wallpaper, I had to change the place) Once we back from honeymoon, we took all the post it off and kept it in the box until now.
