Here’s a Google Analytics query for you…
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: November 8th, 2008 Published in: GoogleJust checking my GA stats for Zero Strategy (launched this week) and found keywords in the report that have absolutely no chance of being real results – it was a search I conducted via the Google toolbar earlier on in the day (I was looking for a Twitter profile of a colleague – Zero Strategy [...]
Google agrees animated advertising deal
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: July 3rd, 2008 Published in: GoogleGoogle has agreed a new advertising deal that will see animated video clips distributed throughout its AdSense network.
The search engine giant’s latest digital marketing venture has been launched in conjunction with the creator of adult animated comedies, Family Guy and American Dad, Seth MacFarlane.
AOL buys Bebo for $850 million from Yahoo!
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 13th, 2008 Published in: Social Media Marketing, YahooThe BBC are reporting today that Time Warner’s AOL have bought Bebo from Yahoo! for $850 million. Not a bad price tag for a site with 40 million members, but surely Yahoo! could have made better use of the traffic? I would have thought that Bebo would have tied in quite nicely with MyBlogLog.
Perhaps they [...]
UK Internet providers team up with Phorm to take a slice of the Internet advertising market
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 10th, 2008 Published in: Advertising, Google, Google Adsense, MSN, Marketing, YahooNot sure if this old news or not but interesting all the same if you haven’t read about it yet.  The NYTimes reported last month that 3 UK Internet providers (BT, Carphone Warehouse and Virginmedia) are teaming up to offer an advertising alternative to that offered by the big 3 search engines.
The 3 companies have allowed ad [...]
Google displaying an additional search box in SERPs
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 5th, 2008 Published in: Google, Local Search, Search EnginesCheck this out:
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Pretty neat huh? I’m seeing the additional search box added to quite a few SERPs today – seems to be only for site names just now. I know TheBestOf use the Google Search Appliance for internal searches and I also see the search box on results for Youtube, Amazon and a few other big [...]
More poor Google / Wikipedia results
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 26th, 2008 Published in: GoogleFollowing on from my post the other week about Wikipedia outranking Google for the term “PageRank”, I thought I’d post this one as well: “search engine optimisation”
Page 2, the Wikipedia page for “SEO” which is classed as a “disambiguation” page (lists different meanings of a word / abbreviation). Fair enough, useful for users of Wikipedia [...]
Yahoo! Search to offer an open search platform
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 26th, 2008 Published in: Local Search, Search Engine Optimisation, YahooYahoo announced today the launch of Yahoo! Search Experience, a 3rd party development platform to enable websites to include more information in Yahoo! search results.
This new scheme looks pretty cool and seems to be somewhat of a competing service to Google’s Universal Search / Local Search / etc. Check out the screenshot on the Y! [...]