Hot off the press: Google has just announced “Universal Search” (Sergi Brin was in attendance), a moniker for an effort to integrati several channels into the Google search results: Google local, videos, images, books etc. This is bringing together several parts that seemed apparently disparate until now (You Tube, Publishing project, Google Local etc.). To [...]
Google has started showing some sponsored search ads at the bottom of the page i.e. below the organic search results. Here is a screenshot -
In case you are looking for traffic trends, the following three sites are generally accepted as standard for free sources. Couple of them have traffic growth graphs: alexaData sourced from tool bar downloads by users. statsoholicFormerly Alexoholic. It sources data from Alexa, but has better presentation. Amazon (which owns Alexa) is trying to block statoholic [...]
Starbucks has received lot of negative publicity lately for not using fair trade coffee. According to consumer watchdog organicconsumers.org, only 3.7% of Starbucks coffee purchases annualy are Fair Trade Certified. This does not bode well for Starbucks suppliers who may hail from Costa Rica, Ethiopia or other developing countries etc. Of course, Starbucks contention is [...]
The WSJ ran an article today (behind a pay wall) about how divvying up family’s belongings has the potential to ignite family feuds. These items in question are knickknacks that have sentimental value rather than monetary worth to the parties involved. The article talks about apparently novel strategies to keep peace. Some notable ones: Family [...]
Microsoft and AT&T claim that the Doubleclick acquisition by Google violates Anti-trust provisions. As is apparent, this is quite ironic coming from players who themselves have a long anti-trust legacy. I had pointed out a few months ago that Google could become dominant enough to attract attention in this vein. Here is the post.
The familiar Target Aisles in the front that carried $1 goods is an excellent hook for users. And a great way to dispose unsold inventory. However, Target has quietly introduced products that are at the $2.50 price point in the same aisles. The price tag is there, but its unlikely customers are noticing it. Many [...]
In the latest sign of the networks going the way of distributing current/recent content to online viedoe networks, CBS has announced that it will make available previously shown episodes of CSI, NCIS and others. The deals are interesting in that it covers several online players, both mature start-ups and those that are just taking off. [...]
I was trying to get some traffic stats and I went to Compete.com to get it. The links on the home page were not working and so I decided to register. They asked me some prickly questions: Salary Gender Year of Birth I was a bit unnerved about being asked for these tidbits, but since [...]
The Wall Street Journal (behind a paywall) reported today Advertising.com, a subsidiary of AOL will be Ad distributor for the as-yet-unnamed NBC – News Corp. joint venture for online video. It seems like advertising.com is leveraging some of the IP it got through AOL’s acquisition of Truveo back in Dec 2005. The technology allows advertising.com [...]
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