AdSense Video Units To Launch In UK, Ireland and Canada
The AdSense blog announced it is adding video units to AdSense users in Canada, Ireland and the UK. “With this new launch, publishers in the UK, Ireland and Canada will be able to show videos from our YouTube content partners and choose those videos by category, individual YouTube partner, or have video automatically targeted to [...]
Yahoo Adds 9 Asian Countries To Mobile Search
Yahoo is now offering its mobile search product in Chinese and has added nine new partners in the Asian market according to a press release today. Yahoo is claiming they now lead the mobile search sector and with US, European and Asian markets being covered this could be accurate. The release stated: Since the introduction [...]
Google Trends Reveals What Unites Manchester
In celebration of Reuters’ discovery of Google Trends, we thought we’d revisit for an update. Like last year (when Google Trends was launched) Birmingham, England still has the world’s largest concentration of porn searches. Nearby Manchester gives them a run for their money…is this somehow soccer related? Overall, though, Australia beats them out. Unless it’s [...]
FTC Slaps Hoodia and HGH Spammers
The Federal Trade Commission, via a district court judge, ordered eHealthyLife.com to stop sending emails and making allegedly false claims about its Hoodia and Human Growth Hormone products. The FTC is prosecuting the case under both the CAN-SPAM Act and the more recent US SAFE WEB Act, saying that its spam database received over 175,000 [...]
Google Street View Gains Six New Cities
Street View is one of Google’s most popular programs, and it just got a lot more inclusive. Users can now take a virtual stroll through Chicago, Pittsburgh, Portland, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Tucson, which brings the total number of Street View cities up to 15. Google Street View Gains Six New Cities The hunt for embarrassing [...]
Facebook To Expand Globally
Facebook has plans to translate its Web site into foreign languages as it attempts to capture a larger share of the global market. Facebook To Expand Globally While MySpace remains larger in the U.S., Facebook is the most popular social network in other English speaking countries, including Canada and is closing the gap with MySpace [...]
Yahoo Expands Reach of OneSearch in Europe, Latin America
Yahoo has doubled the reach of its oneSearch mobile search application by partnering with mobile provider Telefonica to make oneSearch the main search service on Telefonica’s mobile portals. OneSearch, a mobile-specific interface and algorithm, was launched in January with the Yahoo Go for Mobile downloadable application, and expanded in March to be available to all [...]
(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 [...]
Canada Feels Violated By Google Street View
Advocates in Canada’s government are questioning Google’s plans to expand its street-level photography when the privacy rights of individuals could be routinely violated.Google could be in for a legal challenge in Canada over its Street View photography. Unlike the US, Canada has a government office for a federal privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, and her office [...]
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