Senate Subcommittee Cautions FTC on Google-DoubleClick Acquisition
U.S. Senators are urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to look with a critical eye on Google’s planned acquisition of DoubleClick. According to ClickZ News, the heads of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights sent a letter yesterday to FTC Chairperson Deborah Platt Majoras urging her to examine the competition questions [...]
Search Headlines & Links: November 20, 2007
Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: From the SEW Blog: Oodle 2.0: Improved Classifieds SearchWith a new release it’s dubbed “Oodle 2.0,” the classifieds search engine has greatly improved its [...]
BlogWorld: Cult Of Blogging, Minus Two Members
In a session called “The Cult of Blogging,” the sect turned out to be a little smaller than expected; out of three scheduled speakers, only one managed to show up. Om Malik gets a pass – the poor fellow apparently threw his back out – but Michael Arrington simply forgot to come, leaving us with [...]
BlogWorld: All About Your Credibility
Credibility separates the wanna-bes from the somebodies in the blogging world, which makes building your online reputation a critical part of blogging success. WebProNews presents videos and stories from the BlogWorld & New Media Expo taking place in Las Vegas. View our interviews and coverage of the event today. Steven Van Yoder, author of the [...]
Community Broadband Act To Reach Senate
The bipartisan Community Broadband Act, supported by some well-known US senators, was passed out the Senate Commerce Committee today and will proceed to the full Senate for a vote. Most famous among the senators that introduced the bill are John Kerry, John McCain, and Ted Stephens, whose claim to fame at this point was labeling [...]
Decker: Korea One Of The Most Important Markets
Parents aren’t supposed to play favorites, and Sue Decker, Yahoo’s president, didn’t actively insult any of her company’s various arms. She did, however, identify as Korea as one of the “most important” markets, and this has some interesting implications. After all, a Google exec said just five months ago that Korea would play “a very [...]
Scrapblog Scraps For March Of Dimes
Multimedia scrapbooking site Scrapblog will assist the latest March of Dimes fundraising campaign with an effort called ‘Every Baby Has a Story’.The grassroots project, Every Baby Has a Story, present people with the tools to tell stories about their children, and share these stories with others. Technology from Scrapblog will back the creation of these [...]
SEW Experts: How to Avoid Seasonal Search Ranking Wreckage
Search engine traffic is always unpredictable. From algo updates playing havoc with organic rankings to quality score changes flummoxing your paid listings. The impact of these changes are especially critical around the holidays. In today’s Big Biz column, “How to Avoid Seasonal Search Ranking Wreckage,” Aaron Shear shares what to do when holiday dips in [...]
(Woops) Telecoms Help Make Case For Neutral Net
One of the more parroted talking points against Net Neutrality has been verbalized this way: It’s a solution in search of a problem. Rather snide, really, if you think about it, and is a remark that usually accompanies a brush off to concerns of gatekeeper abuses. As if to ask: "Would we do that to [...]
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