Nice to see some companies have a sense of humour
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: October 30th, 2006 Published in: AskNice little satirical blog post at the Ask.com blog, poking some fun at Google’s recent explanation of the use of the word “Google”. My favourite quote: Q: Do people Google on Ask? A: Looking at our logs, people do seem to google on Ask.com. They type in “google” and go to Google. They also do [...]
OK search engines, you want to fight spam?
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: July 24th, 2006 Published in: Ask, Bing, Google, Public Relations, Rants n Drama, Search Engine Optimisation, Spam, YahooSimple solution. Well for part of the problem anyway. Sparked from a discussion on Threadwatch, here’s a thought for Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask. Kill the SEO agency. Sure, they no doubt spend a load on PPC and it could very will be killing off a reasonable source of business for you, but hey – [...]
Ask TV ad – Bigfoot
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: May 18th, 2006 Published in: Advertising, Ask, Google, Marketing, Public RelationsAvailable to watch online, the new Ask TV ad is short and fairly quirky. It features Bigfoot using Ask to find out how to impress girls. Not entirely sure that Bigfoot is the typical Ask user (heh, well you never know!) nor that a search engine could help a hairy, 8ft beast pick up a hot [...]
Cutts on Alexa
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: May 17th, 2006 Published in: Advertising, Alexa, Ask, Bing, Google, Marketing, Search Engine OptimisationMatt Cutts makes an interesting observation on Alexa data on his blog today. Firstly that TV advertising doesn’t appear to have had any impact on traffic figures on Ask (and that the removal of Jeeves had a larger impact), also noting that TV advertising didn’t have much impact on MSN (search) traffic last year. Secondly [...]