Interview with Udi Manber vice president in charge of search quality for Google. Mr. Manber engineers search engine results pages on Google to defy spammers, improve quality and provide the best user experience for information retrieval. Search engines face the same problem of exponential data growth, but also increased users expectations. Searchers are no longer…
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Unfortunately for Microsoft, this video intended for its inside sales staff was leaked. Microsoft copies the Bruce Springsteen classic Born to Run in a display that lets these words by Steve Jobs ring true: Microsoft has no taste Complete with a cameo by the Incredibles cartoon character – animated by Steve Jobs’ Pixar. Bruce ServicePack…
I just received a very convincing email that pretends to be a subpoena from the US District Court. This is an extremely crafty email and the most realistic scam I have seen yet. However the poor souls who visit the court site will receive a nasty surprise. This is a phishing site that will attempt…
Business.com is one of the few directories worth paying to be listed in. Having a Business.com directory listing will help your website in the natural search engine results pages. Currently the fee for a Business.com standard listing is $199 /yr but this will be going up to $299 per year may first. Make sure you…
The auctionads team won the ebay developers contest in 2007 and they got to have lunch with e-bay CEO John Donahue. During this lunch Shoemoney pointed out that the CJ affiliate system was convoluted and unnecessary, and suggested that Ebay.com move their program in-house. On April 1 Ebay did this, and began managing their own…
Yahoo is beginning to look a lot like Google, they are going for an ad free text only homepage. This is what I see on the Yahoo.com homepage today: Actually Yahoo still has ads on their homepage, I just don’t see them as I use the adblock extension for firefox. Whoever redesigned this needs to…
The questions all upcoming webmasters and SEO’s ask themselves: Should I ask for links or not? Can I get targeted paid ads/reviews? Are relevant reciprocal links worth the effort? The short answer is: anything you do to your website that benefits your users will also help you in the search engines. If this means getting…
I just got back from the Tech Crunch 12 function at the Vanguard in Hollywood and boy are my ears tired. I feel sorry for all the presenting company employees who had to endure thundering music for almost 6 hours. Interestingly, the music I heard was all mainstream artists, mostly dance/hip hop/rap, not the myspace…
Google has created a new set of rules for their adwords program, which bring them 98% of their revenue. The rule is displayed in adwords help When you create your ad, you’ll also specify a destination URL, which is the exact URL within your website you want to send users to from your ad. This…
