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La petite url is a personal URL shortener for WordPress
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad
The recent shutdown and reopening of URL-shrinking service Tr.im drew a lot of attention to one of the most troubling questions about short URL sites: when one of them shuts down, what happens to the links? To avoid worrying about what a URL shortener might do with your links, you might want [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )W.tf?! Tr.im not closing after all
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad
Tr.im, one of the most popular URL-shortening services, shut down last week because its owners saw no way to monetize the service in such a competitive market. Twitter’s choice of Bit.ly as its default link-shrinker means that service dominates the market, with smaller players like Ow.ly abd Tr.im fighting over what’s left.
Tr.im [...]
20 Great Google Secrets
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Google is clearly the best general-purpose search engine on the Web (see
www.pcmag.com/searchengines
But most people don’t use it to its best advantage. Do you just plug in a keyword or two and hope for the best? That may be the quickest way to search, but [...]
Which Search Engine Do You Choose In The Blind Test?
By Michael Arrington, Tech crunch
you tried out this blind search tool yet? It provides results from Google, Yahoo and Bing in three columns but doesn’t tell you which column is which search engine. You then tell it which one you think shows the best results, and you then see which answers are from which engines. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Online Ad Marketplace TRAFFIQ Scores $10 Million in Series B Funding
By Robin Wauters, Tech crunch
Online advertising marketplace TRAFFIQ today announced it has closed a $10 million Series B round of venture funding from Grotech Ventures, Greenhill SAVP and Court Square Ventures.
The New York-based company, which operates a management platform designed to connect buyers and sellers of online media, had previously raised $7 million from the [...]
Latest Google Chrome Beta Is “30 Percent Faster,” Supports HTML5, And Is Prettier Too
by Erick Schonfeld, Tech crunch
Google just released a new beta version of its Chrome browser for Windows PCs. The company claims that it is 30 percent faster than the current stable version of the browser (based on V8 and SunSpider benchmarks).
What may be more significant, though, is that this is the first version of Chrome [...]
StumbleUpon To Launch su.pr ShortUrl Service
By Michael Arrington, Techcrunch
StumbleUpon is preparing to launch a shortURL service (a web service that provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs, like TinyURL or Bit.ly) in the next couple of weeks called su.pr.
Founder Garrett Camp announced the new service on Twitter without any description of what it might be on March 3. In [...]
Microsoft to shut down adCenter Analytics Beta
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad
Microsoft is ending its adCenter Analytics Beta. The company is no longer accepting new users, although existing users will be able to access the service through the end of 2009. You’ll probably want to export your data by December 31st though, unless you’re cool with watching it all disappear.
Microsoft adCenter Analytics Beta [...]
Hulu turns one, adds social features
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad
Online video site Hulu opened its doors to the public (in the US, anyway) a year ago today. Since then, Hulu says its video library has grown 333 percent from 12,000 videos to 40,000 videos. It’d take you 7,1000 hours to watch it all. The site now has 130 content partners, which [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Google Now Lets You Target Ads At Yourself
By Erick Schonfeld, Techcrunch.com
Google is wading into behavioral ad targeting in a big way today. It will start placing cookies on consumer’s browsers to collect information about their interests whenever they visit sites that show AdSense contextual ads. Then it will show ads targeted to those interests to the same person as he or she [...]
AlertThingy adds more – filters, groups, deep search
By Mike Butcher, UK.techcrunch.com
AlertThingy, an Air app for aggregating social networks, is poised to release an update to its recent version that improves filtering, adds groups and integrates powerful search. Next Tuesday AlertThingy 3.1 will have new filtering options which lets users identify items tagged as ‘very interesting’, as well as messages and comments ‘directed [...]
Prepare yourself for bigger, harder to miss web advertising
By Brad Linder, Downloadsquad
A huge number of web site publishers make most of their money from advertising. That’s true of this site, and it’s true of the 27 major web publishers that have come together in an effort to find some form of advertising tha’s more effective than the old fashioned banner ads that populate [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Wolfram to launch “computational knowledge engine”
By Jay Hathaway, Downloadsquad
Wolfram Research, the makers of Mathematica, are at work on an ambitious new project that’s due to launch in May. It’s a “computational knowledge engine.” What does a computational knowledge engine do? Wolfram is making as much human knowledge as they can manage computable by the new program, called Wolfram Alpha. Basically, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )ZoomInfo Scores Deal With Microsoft To Integrate Search Into CRM
By Leena Rao, Techcrunchit.com
ZoomInfo, a popular business information search engine used to find information about industries, companies and people is partnering with Microsoft to integrate its search engine into Microsoft’s Dynamic CRM platform. ZoomInfo’s search engine has proven to be useful tool to incorporate into CRMs because its research capabilities help identify new sales leads, [...]
It’s Time To Start Thinking Of Twitter As A Search Engine
By Michael Arrington – Techcrunch.com
At a dinner tonight with a friend the conversation turned to Twitter. He just didn’t get it, and he’s certainly not the first person to tell me that. Specifically, my friend didn’t understand the massive valuation ($250 million or more) that Twitter won in its recent funding. I told him why [...]
New Report Shows Decline for PPC Advertising in Q1
By Peter Young
The first part of 2009 has been interesting, very interesting. The global recession shows no current signs of recovery in the short term, and much of this has been reflected in advertising budgets worldwide. In particular, the retail sector has been one of the hardest hit, and this has been reflected in Rimm-Kaufman’s [...]
Adwords in the News, Literally
By Frank Reed
Google is now placing paid search ads in the news results. Whether it’s a response to the economy of justthe next step it probably is considered to be a long time coming. As the search industry takes some hits due to the economy there will be more efforts to put more ads in [...]
Mobile Advertising Spend on the Way…
By Jordan McCollum
While there are a multitude of reports having marketers bracing themselves for this recession, there are still a number of optimists who say that the best is yet to come. The Kelsey Group is one such optimist, reporting that mobile ad spend is on the way up, and mobile search will lead the [...]
WebMynd Makes Your Search Engine Smarter With New Browser Plugin
By Jason Kincaid
WebMynd, a Y Combinator company that launched early last year, has released a new plugin that is looking to streamline the way you search. The plugin, which is available for Firefox and Internet Explorer, enhances the search results on most popular search engines by inserting a handy sidebar with related search results from [...]
Online Ads: Even the Evangelists Turning Bearish
By Sarah Lacy
It wasn’t too many months ago that saying online advertising would decline in 2009 was enough to get you laughed at in the blogosphere, mocked on Twitter, and have Eric Schmidt roll his eyes and explain, again, why Google ads were such a better value than traditional media.
Flash forward to this week and [...]
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