Google announced yesterday that they closed an exclusive deal to provide contextual advertising to be displayed on the U.S. news portion of CNN’s website. Google beat Yahoo to the deal which has been Yahoo’s since 2004 (when they took it away from Google). Yahoo still remains the provider of such services to CNN’s international edition.
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Beginning next week, Mercedes Benz owners will be able to plan trips, stops, hotels, restaurants and more using Yahoo or Google and forward their results directly to their in-car GPS system. The new program, called Search & Send, was developed as a joint effort between Yahoo and Google.
Drivers can plot destinations, addresses or points of […]
As Google keeps on losing the battle against the other engines when it comes to online privacy, they decided to put up a video on YouTube which, while accurate, spin things their way and make them look much better, at least in the eyes of those who don’t know much about it.
PCWORLD wrote about this […]
Yahoo Mail Beta has been around for a couple of years now, the slick feature-rich design was initially offered through invites only, then for paying customers only (that’s when I joined) and lastly, about a year ago it opened as a Beta version for everyone.
Over the weekend, Yahoo Mail Beta had become official while removing […]
In just another case of “listening to the crowd” Yahoo introduced this week a great feature to webmasters - dynamic URL rewriting. The feature, which is still in beta, will allow webmasters the ability to alert Yahoo! of the dynamic parameters in URLs that they’d like Yahoo! to ignore, who will, in turn, automatically rewrite […]
When living in Israel I remember having to follow-up on NFL scores over the Internet, newspaper, phone or any way I could. TV broadcasts were saved only for Superbowl and some specific playoff games, all the rest were reviewed in an approx 15 seconds each. Those days are over and this season, for the second […]
The blogosphere, news-sphere and even digg-sphere have all been shaking this morning with then ew gphone (Google cell-phone) rumors coming to us from India. Rumor has it that gPhone is set to launch in 2 weeks and that Google already has all its ducks lined up. PCWORLD adds that “Google is in talks with several […]
A new patent application filed by Google this week attempts to tie “clipped” (copied&pasted) URLs from both email and IM into an actual ranking algorithm. From the patent description “[a] universal distributed search system allows users to find and distribute search results (possibly including advertisements) to those with whom they communicate.”
The patent writes:
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The rumors of a possible deal between Yahoo and Actionality which have been going on for a couple of weeks finally got the stamp of approval with an official announcement from Yahoo.
What is Actionality? From the company’s website:
Actionality is your exclusive source for efficient and effective mobile marketing technologies and solutions. Imagine having the […]
Achieving top results is the goal of most SEOs and for obvious reasons. However, a recent survey sheds some more light on a by-product of a high-ranking - legitimacy & trust.
The survey taken by students at the College of Charleston suggests that Internet users mistakenly have an inherent trust of Google search results that […]
SEM, SEO, SERP, CPM, CPC, all together now!
Written by Noel Bautista [email] for b5media.
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