Threadwatch has spotted this announcement by Coupons Inc which intends to offer their coupons in a contextual placement program starting this week.
Contextual placement involves scanning host Web pages for keywords, and linking them to related content. While several online networks offer contextual ad placements, most notably Google’s AdSense, Concordance is the first such execution designed […]
Barry points to 5 Cre8asite threads created by the admin Bill Slawski and cover 5 recent search patents recently registered.
Threads Cover:
- Variable personalization of search results (Google)
- Google Help with Advertising Creatives (Google)
- Yahoo! Color Graphing and Personalization (Yahoo)
- Inverse searches and User Annotations (Yahoo)
- Assigning textual ads based on article history (MSN)
Cool tip on how to bid-jam your competition in Yahoo! / Overture a-la DaveN:
Bid Jamming : Ok, you pick the keyword you want to bid on and find that :
#1 is 25 ( what they pay is 5.01 ) < - silly boy !
#2 is 5 ( what they pay is 4.51 )
#3 is 4.50 […]
A new web-based mail service has been introduced by Yahoo! yesterday. The interface is a product of Yahoo’s acquisition of Oddpost last July and seems to go long beyond anything we’ve experienced so far with similar services.
The main idea is make the experience as client-like as possible while reducing the refresh time and apparently they […]
The long awaited Google blog search is has gone live earlier today making it the first major search engine to offer a dedicated blog search platform. This service is set to be a major player among the blog search industry which currently includes Feedster, Technorati, IceRocket and several more.
According to the FAQ’s:
Blog Search is Google […]
The biggest problem with having unhappy customers is that you never know who you mess with. It can be some Joe that would not do a thing or some big mough webmaster that knows how to start a buzz. A great example for that is shown in this Threadwatch post named Godaddy Holding Customer Sites […]
In an effort to build an ‘Search Engine Friendly’ sites, some people believe that you’ll need to build it W3C complient. This way se’s can interpert the HTML code easily and give your site a higher priority over non complient sites.
This issue is brought up in this High Rankings post where reddevil asks for suggestions […]
