Yesterday, Google lowered the Toolbar PageRank of many sites in many different online verticals, in what may be a permanent or temporary message to sites about selling links. Google also lowered the Toolbar PageRank of many sites which do not sell links, so the link argument may not even be relevant. Until Google comes out [...]

  Yahoo plans to expand its Newspaper Consortium and advertising alliance on the global level according to Yahoo Company President Susan Decker who spoke at a Yahoo Press Conference in Taiwan (covered by DigiTimes). Yahoo! has already reached agreements with 19 newspaper groups operating more than 400 local newspapers around the US, to carry Yahoo! advertising [...]

  Yahoo Chairman and Ex-CEO Terry Semel exercised options for 750,000 shares of Yahoo stock and then sold them for $29 to $30 a share according to a filing by the Securities and Exchange Commission and CNNMoney’s Thomson Financial.Semel exercised options on the 750,000 shares for $15 a piece, then sold them for the final $29 [...]

  Baidu.com, the domestic Chinese search engine company, dominates the China Search Engine market with a 61.5% share this third quarter, proving itself a powerhouse in its own nation, and growing by 3.4% over Q2’s 58.1% share.Google enjoys a 22.5% share of the Chinese market while Yahoo China weighs in at 10.6% share. Analysys Internaitonal, which [...]

  Mozilla reported a 26% jump in earnings from 2005 to 2006, earning ‘most’ of its revenue from a search partnership with Google where Mozilla collects a revenue share on AdWords ads served via searches which originate from the Mozilla browser search box (which defaults to Google).From the MozillaZine Blog:Mozilla’s revenues (including both Mozilla Foundation and [...]

  This just in, Microsoft has beat out Google and Yahoo, securing a deal with Facebook wherein Microsoft will take a $240 million equity stake in Facebook’s next round of financing at a $15 billion valuation, and the companies will expand their existing advertising partnership. Big news for Live Search, bigger news for adCenter. Microsoft will [...]

  That’s right. You should never use American Express for your payment method for Google AdWords. While American Express (AMEX) is widely accepted as the credit card for businesses, it may be a bit overzealous at protecting card members from actively marketing online — specifically with Google. While I certainly respect AMEX for being zealous to [...]

  Dude, where’s my PageRank? This morning, around 1 am, I was finishing up a document and clicked over to Search Engine Journal to see if any comments were made on some of my favorite posts. Looking at the Google Toolbar, I saw the PageRank bar read a PageRank 6. After refreshing a couple of times [...]

  There is tons of useful information available on the internet about how to do this or that to promote your business, products or services on-line. Most of that information tell or suggest to you what you should do. This is helpful information and very valuable, but sometimes is the information what you should not do [...]

  Has social networking damaged your social life? A strange question to ponder don’t you think? Your sitting there thinking to yourself what is this guy on, thats impossible. But is it impossible, is it so difficult to imagine that social networking in one way or another has had some negative impact on your [...]