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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 [...]

• Google Ranking explained

  Saturday, July 12th, 2008

  Google PageRank is based primarely on the “votes” submitted by other web sites under the form of the links. It uses a complex algorithm to assign values, in order to measure the relative importance for every hyperlinked element.
  An interesting article was posted on Google Blog by Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow [...]

• Share your site with Google Sites

  Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

  Official Google Blog announced the launch of the Google Sites for anyone to share information - team projects, company intranets, community groups, classrooms, clubs, family updates, etc. Google Sites was previously used exclusively as part of Google Apps for companies and organizations, on their own domains.
  Now it is possible to [...]

• Turn your site into a social network: Google Friend Connect

  Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

  Replacing the thousands of social networks with a single big social network? No, but a golden mine, maybe the best service of Google for me and my 287 web sites and tens of blogs, every one with its own users till now.
  So, from now on any of us can have his own social [...]

• 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 [...]

• You pay for domain name, Dreamhost register it for itself

  Friday, February 22nd, 2008

  I had 5 web hosting packages with Dreamhost, all of it including a free registration of a domain name. But they do not say the person that will be the registrant, and this way you will see later that it is not you the registrant, but Dreamhost, and they can whatever [...]

• Fusu, the Domain Stock Exchange for premium domain names

  Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

  I thought longtime ago for a stock exchange for domain names. As any other domainer. It is the perfect tool for the domain name market. An emerging market. Fusu did it.
  Domaining, as it is defined by Wikipedia, is the business of buying, selling, developing and monetizing Internet domain names.
  The [...]

• Dreamhost and the transfer of the domain names

  Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

  If you have domain names registered with Dreamhost ( New Dream Network LLC), take care that you can be in the same situation as me, having more domain names with Dreamhost, trying to transfer it to another registrar, and losing the domain names because they do not answer to you.
  I was [...]

• Dreamhost, no answer yet

  Saturday, February 16th, 2008

  The hope to get back my domain names registered with Dreamhost and for which I am the registrant, still a dream, after 11 days. The only answer to my request for an authorization code to transfer the domain names to another registrar, is an answer from February 7th, 2008: “Your [...]

• Dreamhost and the full power of the registrars

  Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

  So, let’s see shortly the problem for the readers that did not see my previous post:
  New Dream Network, LLC is a ICANN accredited registrar and, same time, a web hosting company.
  When I bought 5 web hosting packages from them, I registered with them 5 new domain names, the registration [...]

• Dreamhost, the nightmare web hosting and domain name registration service

  Sunday, February 10th, 2008

  Shortly: some years ago I started to use the Dreamhost web hosting service and now, after they closed my accounts without a reason, they refuse to charge back my money and to get me access to the domain names I registered with them.
  It was ok at the beginning, some years ago. [...]

• Google wants to stop domain tasting/kiting

  Sunday, January 27th, 2008

  As of Feb. 11, Google will penalize domain tasting and kiting, by blocking Google AdSense for domain names, stopping all domain tasting in its tracks for domain names that are less then five days old.
  According to Domain Tools, there are partners that Google had that generated as [...]

• Creative Content Online for EU

  Thursday, January 17th, 2008

  On January 3rd, the European Commission (EC) launched a public consultation for the preparation of a recommendation on Creative Content Online for the European Union for a common legal environment for online content, proposing multi-territory licences.EU policies should support the rapid implementation of “new services and related business models for [...]

• MySQL bought by Sun Microsystems

  Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

  A new try for Sun Microsystems to come back between the leaders of the IT industry, by buying the most popular open source database, for $1 billion.
  MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system which has, according to MySQL AB, more than 10 million installations. The basic program runs as [...]

• 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 [...]

• Testing the front running practice with Network Solutions

  Thursday, January 10th, 2008

  I red about the practice of Network Solutions to register every name looked-up via their registration-site WHOIS, but I couldn’t believe it, so I tested it myself.
  I choose the domain name “justadomaintastingtest.com”.
  I tried it with the whois at register.com (that I trust and I always use): the domain name was available.

  I tried [...]

• 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 [...]

• Yahoo! web-based media player for your mp3 files

  Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

  Yahoo! just launched these days a beta version for a very interesting browser-based player. With just a line of Javascript code embedded in your web page it is possible to play any mp3 file from any web site. The documentation is a a public wiki.
  You can set the image Yahoo! uses [...]