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- Ask.com wages Google search war, NOT AdWords battle
- Ask.com goes 3D in a big effort to one-up Google's recently debuted Universal Search.Why then, does it not solely go the Ask.com ad sales route as well, instead of continuing to rely on arch rival Google for its revenues?Just weeks ago, in Ask vs. Google: Can $100 million buy IAC...
- Tags: Search Advertising, Search, Google, AdWords
- Blog posts 2007-06-05
- Google search: Big, bad multi-billion dollar sandbox
- Google's organic search ranking sandbox may be the most treacherous weapon in the $150 billion market cap search engine king's big, bad black box of Webmaster tricks.What is the motive behind Google's reviled sandbox? HINT: Google sandbags Webmasters with a sandbox to the spam defense SPIN.I have oft underscored that...
- Tags: AdWords, Advertising, Google, ROI, Search, Search Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- Does Google have a huge conflict of interest?
- Google is making far more money from advertising on its own sites than on its partner sites. Since 2004, advertising revenue growth from Google sites has jumped by 24 percent to over 62 percent of total revenues. Isnt there a conflict of interest here? Google has grown revenues to...
- Tags: Search, Google
- Blog posts 2007-05-06
- Google Office user problems? Boost to AdWords business
- Even when Google loses, it wins, in its "no obvious ceiling to AdWords monetization" Wall Street parade, that is.The latest example stems from its problem plagued roll-out of its much touted would be Microsoft Office killer, Google Apps.In Google vs. Microsoft Office? Not yet! Monday, I underscored that Google is...
- Tags: Google Software Applications, Advertising, Search Advertising, Search, Google Apps, Google Ads, AdWords
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Google's NOT SO virtuous circle
- Eric Goldman “snarkily” declares “pro se lawyers arent bringing honor to themselves or our profession,” pro se lawyers who are also AdWords buyers AND SUING GOOGLE over click fraud that is!BUT, what about esquire Goldman? Goldman may or may not be a purchaser of Google AdWords, but he most definitely...
- Tags: Legal, Click Fraud, Search Advertising, Search, Government, Google, Copyright, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Google clients 'frustrated' by unprofitable AdWords buys
- Buyers of Google AdWords are “becoming increasingly frustrated,” so says the Googler that started the first Google inside sales team in 2003, Adam Goldberg. Goldberg helped build the Google inside sales team to a $500 million dollar a year organization by touting the marketing ROI of spends on AdWords’...
- Tags: Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Profits, Marketing, Google Ads, Google, Brands, AdWords, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Google: EFF defends right to sell AdWords
- Last week, I put forth “Google YouTube ‘victims’ championed by Chilling Effects, EFF, Harvard Law School.”This week, the EFF Electonic Frontier Foundation has come to the Google rescue once again, seeking to prevent “improper attacks on digital speech intermediaries.”Calling itself an advocate for “online speakers, consumers and technology innovators,” the...
- Tags: Business Models, Advertising, Search, Legal, Google, Government, Internet Data, Google Software Applications, Copyright, Search Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- Google Personals vs. Match.com: Get a date at Google!
- Is this Valentine’s Day inspiring you to seek “hot & sexy dating with singles in your area”?Google presumably hopes so. If you click on that number one AdWords “Sponsored Link” from Passion.com in a search for “mobile dating,” Google gets paid for a click. Google entices "mobile dating" searchers...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Search, Culture, Google, Social Web, ecommerce, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, Search Advertising, User Generated Politics, Social Capital
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- Scoring Google on quality
- In “The Google riddle: ‘organized’, ‘useful’ but impossible to comprehend” I dissect Google’s cheery “Welcome to AdWords” marketing speak, challenging Google’s assertions that “AdWords puts you in complete control of your spending.”Google search advertising is a costly Pandora’s box that continuously increases in complexity, opaqueness and Google centricity.Google has an...
- Tags: advertisement, Google Inc., Google AdWords, Google&rsquo, s
- Blog posts 2006-12-26
- Google Checkout: $20 million AdWords pitch
- Upon Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s announcement of Google Checkout June 29, 2006, I underscored: “It’s official: Google launches ‘Checkout’ with predatory pricing model aiming to ‘increase advertising spending’” I have been chronicling Google’s determined, but heretofore underwhelming, Checkout integrated merchant acquisition/AdWords sales strategy since, as I reviewed two weeks...
- Tags: ROI, Google Software Applications, ecommerce, Marketing, Google, Search, Advertising, Business Models, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- Google: Multi-billion dollar self-dealer?
- Google is starting to communicate with the blogoshpere, in its own way!In my “Google almost on the radio!” yesterday I noted: “Has Google been reading my Digital Micro-Markets Blog countdown to Audio Ads?”: Google acknowledges at the Inside AdWords Blog: "Theres been a lot of speculation about what were...
- Tags: Google&rsquo, s, Google AdWords, Google Inc., advertisement, ROI, Google Software Applications, Self-Promotion, Marketing, Government, Google, Legal, Search, Advertising, Media
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
- Google Checkout: Free in 2007, still flawed
- Why is Google willing to pay the fees of transaction processing on behalf of merchants till the end of 2007?Google Checkout announces: From November 8, 2006 through December 31, 2007, well process your Checkout transactions for free, even if you arent an AdWords advertiser.Does the Google generosity know no...
- Tags: Google Checkout, Google Inc., Checkout, ROI, Google Software Applications, ecommerce, Marketing, Google, Search, Advertising
- Blog posts 2006-12-06
- Google Checkout audit: Where are AdWords 'badges'?
- When Google Checkout launched five months ago, I put forth that Google’s end-game was to sell more Google AdWords.In Google Checkout to merchants: Give us your customers, and your advertising and It’s official: Google launches ‘Checkout’ with predatory pricing model aiming to ‘increase advertising spending’ and Google Checkout aims to...
- Tags: Google Software Applications, Metrics, Google, Search, Marketing, Business Models, Advertising, Enterprise
- Blog posts 2006-11-24
Additional Resources
- Facebook bans Google's Friend Connect
- A few days ago, Google launched a new service called Friend Connect to help website owners make their stuff social without needing to do much work. This basically involves being able to host certain gadgets that use OpenSocial on a webpage by simply copy and pasting some code from...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Redmond Magazine Successfully SQL Injected by Chinese Hacktivists
- Irony at its best. It appears that Redmond - The Independent Voice of the Microsoft IT Community, formerly known as Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine is currently flagged as a badware site, and third-party exploit detection tools are also detecting internal pages as exploit hosting ones, in this particular case Mal/Badsrc-A....
- Tags: Redmond, SQL, SQL Injection, F**k, Mal/Badsrc-A, Programming Languages, Databases, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Run by Wall Street? A Cause or a Company?
- Guest post: Anshu Sharma is author of Anshu's blog, which focuses on Software as a Service and the emerging SaaS Ecosystem. He is an Enterprise Irregular. In light of the Yahoo! - Microsoft fiasco, fellow bloggers Larry Dignan and Vinnie Mirchandani have been asking the question whether...
- Tags: Shareholder, Yahoo! Inc., Vision, Wall, Management Team, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Accounting, Construction, Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Management, Anshu Sharma
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Facebook flap: Google's side
- Amid the Facebook move to block Google's Friend Connect, the search giant has responded. As expected, Google had a few issues with Facebook's privacy assessment of Google Friend Connect. There's a lot of debate on Techmeme about the issue and it's a big one as all of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Google Friend Connect, User Privacy, Third Party App, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature
- There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...
- Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Small differences can make a BIG difference
- I recently got a chance to talk with one VC firm that's focused some of its attention and money on cleantech. One of their investments is in OPX, which seems to have a unique approach to solving some of the energy and raw material supply issues facing the planet....
- Tags: Chemicals, Clean Technology, Costs, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
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