Archive for April, 2011

Report: YouTube to Spend $100 Million on Original Programs for New Channels

2011/04/07

YouTube is reportedly ready to spend $100 million to develop original ad-supported programming to populate about 20 new niche “channels,” according to a Wall Street Journal report.

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Should You Ban A Country From Visiting Your Website?

2011/04/07

Website owners often put a website online and let the entire world access its contents. Essentially, they are claiming to service the world. But how often is this really the case

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Yahoo BOSS Version 2 Launches With Pricing and Branding Requirements And Microsoft’s Search Index

2011/04/07

Yahoo has just launched version 2 of BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service). When they announced this version in February, I wrote about the history of BOSS and detailed the changes

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SSL Validity A Factor In Google’s Ranking Algorithm?

2011/04/07

On April Fools Day, of all days, Google announced their efforts in improving SSL certificate security. Part of this announcement confirmed that during Google’s web crawl…

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Bing Launches A Killer iPad App

2011/04/07

Not an “iPad killer” . . . a killer app for the iPad

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Think With Google: Hey Everyone Gets Rich With AdWords

2011/04/07

Yesterday’s post on Google’s Inside AdWords blog gave a heavy pitch for offline sales from the impact of AdWords – the short video seems more like a ‘get rich quick’ infomercial than an informed case study. Click to read the rest of this post…

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Poll: SEO Certification & Standards Needed?

2011/04/07

Sphinn has an excellent discussion taking place on if the SEO industry needs certifications and standards. To be honest, there are various certification programs out there. None of them are backed by a centralized non-profit agency such as SEMPO.

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YouTube Is The Real “Google TV”

2011/04/07

Google TV, the company’s much-hyped “Connected TV” effort that brought together Sony, Logitech and Dish Networks, has failed to deliver on its promise — at least so far. While sales figures haven’t been released the public isn’t biting, it would appear. Google TV…

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Does Italy Really Want Search Engines? Recent Legal Rulings Suggest Not

2011/04/07

Google and Yahoo have felt the sting of the Italian courts recently and the numerous problems the engines seem to be having in the country almost suggests search engines are not welcome.

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Accept: Follow: Connect: Press: Like: Share: Stumble: Update: Friend

2011/04/07

It’s so simple, it’s just a button. One, simple, click of the mouse and the job is done.

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