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• Google Insights For Search, for advertisers and marketers

  Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

  Google launched a new product very useful for advertisers and marketers. It include a world heat map for the search volume and regional interest, the evolution for a specific search term and the top related and rising searches.
  With Google Insights For Search, it is possible to compare search volume trends across multiple [...]

• Google Knol, the paid Wikipedia

  Thursday, July 24th, 2008

  Writers has now a good occasion to make profit. Google launched this week Google Knol, the user-generated encyclopedia similar to Wikipedia. And every author can earn money from his work, depending on the hits of his articles
  Google official blog says that “Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people [...]

• Quality Score for keywords will depend on landing page load

  Monday, May 12th, 2008

  A new step for a better Google AdWords: the timing of landing page load time will be included as a factor in Quality Score.
  Inside AdWords blog posted an article about an additional factor incorporated into Quality Score, the time it takes for a user to see the landing page after clicking [...]

• Best paid keywords

  Sunday, May 11th, 2008

  A very interesting list of the highest paid keywords for the Google AdSense and other affiliate programs for publicists. Unfortunately, I cannot use it. Simple, because I do not fully trust it.
  From far, the best paid keywords seems to be related on “mesothelioma”.
  Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is almost always caused [...]

• eBay auction business downgraded

  Thursday, January 24th, 2008

  In my opinion as an user eBay was losing its competitiveness due to its own rules. Too many rules, too restricting rules, a very complicated system for sellers, not a very good search system for buyers, and not a very good integration of all its parts. Now the new CEO, John [...]

• Google and Yahoo! top search keywords for 2007

  Monday, January 14th, 2008

  Big differences between the two statistics for top search keywords for the last year. It seems that Yahoo! search was used mainly for entertainment, while US people searched with Google for a more diversified terms, especially social networks.
  As specified by MandarinMusing.com:
  Google fastest rising U.S. search terms for 2007:

  iPhone: a [...]

• Google AdSense referrals changes

  Thursday, January 10th, 2008

  AdSense referrals will no longer be offering the $5 bonus or $2000 bonus, it will return to the original payout structure. European publishers could no longer promote this product. One reason can be for Google to cut down on signups from countries that AdSense doesn’t see as great performers, due [...]

• Domain tasting and ICANN’s Report

  Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

  ICANN just releases a report on the domain tasting, known also as domain kiting, where the registrants use the five-day “grace-period” at the beginning os a GTLD (generic top-level domain) to test it. If the domain is a success, it is kept by the registrant. These are usually previously used and [...]