Ask Inc have issued earlier today a press release announcing that their new pay-per-click advertising system, is now available for everyone at sponsoredlistings.ask.com
Following last weeks announcement of Yahoo extending it’s index size, SE guru Danny Sullivan of SearchEngineWatch.com is daring the search engines to start delivering more relevant results rather than size reports.
This is Search Engine Size Wars VI, by my count. It’s absurd. It’s annoying. It’s a friggin’ waste of time. Instead of advancing to a commonly accepted relevancy figure, the search engines want to keep us mired in the mud of who’s biggest.
This game is going to go on and on until someone is brave enough to change the rules. I’m daring either of the leaders, Google or Yahoo, to do just that. Both of them say that size is one of only many factors to consider. Both of them tell you relevancy matters most. SO PROVE IT!
Google has just launched Inside Adsense Blog which is going to be, according to their first post, the Adsense equivalent to their Inside Adwords Blog.
Google is still a pretty small place, so when we heard that our AdWords friends had put together an Inside AdWords blog, it got our competitive juices flowing! It also made us think about all of the information we’d love to share with our publishers – and there’s quite a bit of it, from site optimization tips, to product feature descriptions, to ideas on getting more out of AdSense.
You can find the feed here, Forum discussion at Digital Point.
I’ve recently ran into a couple of pieces of software which are aimed at simplifying ones’ site’s code in order to distpay it on mobile phones:
The first is PHONifier.com. It is a free, open source, solution that displays no ads and seems very promising. All you need to do is point to their homepage from your mobile phone and insert the site you are interested in.
From their site:
PHONifier is an application to make your mobile web life easier. More and more mobile phones have internet access, yet there are very few webdevelopers that really seem to care about the mobile surfer. PHONifier takes care of this by optimizing webpages for mobile phones… On the fly.
It does a pretty good job on this site…
The second site, is called RSS2WAP and it does just about what it says (make RSS feeds WAP friendly)…
Following is a tip for people interested in running both IE7 and IE6 at the same time. I haven’t checked IE7 yet, but I know of several people who have installed it to check their sites and start preparing their sites ahead of time. Anyways, it seems as if all you need to do is delete one file and create a different one.
So this 24 y/o is selling the rights to place ads on his corpse. The rights include ad during the funeral which can be photographed and distributed at no extra charge.
Problem is that the guy is 24 and has no health problems, this means that we’re talking some long-term investment…
Bid is up to $15.50 so far, considering what this amount will be worth in roughly 50 years, it is probably the wrong measurment for now.
Yahoo has upgraded it’s database and claim to have over 18 billion pages indexed, all this is while Google has only 8 billion.
However, is the bigger really better? Yahoo obviously thinks it is. While it does not say much to the average Joe searching for socks, it seems as if it is a powerful marketing tool for Yahoo. They’ve announced that they are ready to take on Google at any time as to their index size.
It sounds reasonable that the site with the bigger index would most likely have the better results, but the problem is that it is not that simple.
This is my view of it, there is plenty of shady webmasters who publish hundreds of thousands of spam pages into the web on a daily basis. Google has learned to deal with them and ban them within days of their release. Yahoo, however, seems to still be struggling with these pages and is listing many of them high up in their serps.
So, how about worrying about bettering the results before worrying about the size. At the end of the day, if you cannot provide me with quality results, I don’t really care how big your index are. Some may say that “Size doesn’t matter, but it is about what you can do with it”, this seems to fit here as well.
