1. New search ad formats  permalink

New search ad formats
Googleblog.blogspot.com

At Google, we're committed to giving you the information you want — regardless of the form in which it might appear. Text is often useful, but sometimes videos and pictures are a more effective way to receive information. For example, if you want to learn a magic trick, a video showing you how to perform the trick is likely the best result. ...

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Www.searchenginejournal.com
How Google's New Ad Formats Depart from Google's Old Philosophy Yahoo Improves its Search Assist Feature   —  While Google was busy working with more search ads formats, Yahoo on the other hand is busy improving  their Search Assist feature. So, today Yahoo has just rolled out several new features aimed at helping searchers find the right information on various Yahoo online properties including Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports and Yahoo! Finance.

Blumenthals.com
New Local Listing Ad Layout & Whatever Happened to the 7-Pack for Web Designers? | Understanding Google Maps & Local Search   —  New Local Listing Ad Layout & Whatever Happened to the 7-Pack for Web Designers? « Regurgitation on Is Google Showing the Authoritative OneBox More Often?

2. Let your subscriptions' personality come through  permalink

Let your subscriptions' personality come through
Googlereader.blogspot.com

We recently asked you for your ideas (and votes) on how to make Reader better. One of the more popular suggestions was adding favicon support for subscriptions, so today we're introducing just that (thanks to 20%-er Shreyas Desai).

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3. Datenschützer wollen Einsatz von Analytics verhindern  permalink

Datenschützer wollen Einsatz von Analytics verhindern
Www.zeit.de

Google hilft Websitebetreibern, mehr über ihre Nutzer zu erfahren. Datenschützer aber fürchten Sammelwut und fordern Aufklärung. Im Zweifel mit Androhung von Bußgeldern.

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Frank Reed / Andy Beal :   Ich bin ein Googler!

4. Twitter eyes acquisitions, sees making money in 2010  permalink

Www.reuters.com

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Micro-blogging site Twitter is interested in making more acquisitions as it continues to grow in popularity, co-founder Biz Stone said on Tuesday.

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Twitter's Biz Stone says could go IPO route   —  OXFORD, England (Reuters) - Twitter, the social internet firm that tracks trends through individuals' updates of events around them, may eventually go to the stock market for funding if necessary, its co-founder Biz Stone said.

David Wilson / Social Media Optimization
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Is Twitter Losing Traction?   —  Wanted to share this data with you before I went away for the holidays. It is pretty apparent that traffic to Twitter.com has peaked, and is now in a downward spiral. According to data provided to eMarketer by Nielsen, traffic to Twitter.com fell 27.8% between September and October 2009, falling to 18.9 million unique visitors. comScore said ...

5. Google CEO: A New Iraq Means Business Opportunities  permalink

Google CEO: A New Iraq Means Business Opportunities
Blogs.wsj.com

Google’s chief executive Eric Schmidt said during a trip to Baghdad this week that Iraq’s stabilization could lead to business opportunities in the country.

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Bill Tancer / Hitwise Intelligence
SearchCap: The Day In Search, News Corp. - If You de-Index Will They Still Come?   —  Two weeks ago we posted on Rupert Murdoch's threat to block Google from Indexing News Corp. content. While at first it seemed as though Murdoch was merely posturing with hypotheticals, reports continue to indicate that News Corp. is seriously considering choosing Bing as the exclusive "indexer" of their news content. While our data hasn't ...

Www.nytimes.com
Google to Put Iraqi Artifacts Online   —  BAGHDAD — Amira Edan, the director of Iraq’s National Museum, says that soon she will no longer have to worry so much that the famous institution remains closed to the public for fear of violence.

6. Send attachments while offline  permalink

The Gmail Team / Gmail Blog

Posted by Andy Palay, Software Engineer One of the most requested features for Offline Gmail has been the ability to include attachments in messages composed while offline. Starting today, attachments work just the way you would expect them to whether you are online or offline (with the exception that when you're offline you won't be able to ...

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7. Black Friday Sales Ads Drive Traffic to Online Retailers  permalink

Black Friday Sales Ads Drive Traffic to Online Retailers
Www.searchenginejournal.com

Online stores are probably raving right now with the current traffic spikes that their sites are getting this Thanksgiving week. According to Hitwise, online traffic for Black Friday sales websites increased by 4% as compared to the same week in 2008.  This stat was due to the online traffic directed by Black Friday advertising websites which ...

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Heather Dougherty / Hitwise Intelligence
Black Friday Sales Ads Drive Traffic to Online Retailers Thanksgiving and Black Friday Seasonal Traffic Patterns   —  When you start hearing about doorbuster sales and stores opening at 5 am, it can mean only one thing – Thanksgiving and Black Friday are almost upon us again! Retailers started to promote pre-Black Friday sales as early as late October and have been running sales for much of the month of November, but Friday will herald the official start to ...

Virginia Nussey / Bruce Clay
Black Friday Sales Ads Drive Traffic to Online Retailers Quick Hits for Black Friday Marketing Pushes   —  It's a short holiday week for most, but if you're a retail business owner or an SEO of a small retail business, this week holds little rest for you. Days away is Black Friday, the mega shopping day that falls the day after Thanksgiving and ushers in the winter holiday...

8. SF Chronicle to publish content from McSweeney's Panorama newspaper  permalink

SF Chronicle to publish content from McSweeney's Panorama newspaper
Spin Thicket

As one who has had many relationships with women under 120 pounds, let me just say that none did anything purposefully to keep their figures, but all were accused of it. Imho, this is just another example of overweight "real" women being pandered to ...

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Firefly Lighting: Living room   —  As one who has had many relationships with women under 120 pounds, let me just say that none did anything purposefully to keep their figures, but all were accused of it. Imho, this is just another example of overweight "real" women being pandered to ...

Spin Thicket
Can We Put A Moratorium on the Upload Your Photo Idiocy?   —  As one who has had many relationships with women under 120 pounds, let me just say that none did anything purposefully to keep their figures, but all were accused of it. Imho, this is just another example of overweight "real" women being pandered to ...

9. Los Angeles  permalink

Los Angeles
Www.urlfan.com

El que no vio el pasado domingo los American Music Awards en Los Angeles no puso ver a Jennifer L pezcon su nuevo single Louboutins Para su show Jennifer Lopez prepar una impactante coreograf a que incluy un bochornoso blooper en el que se la vio a JLo c...... more

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10. Dropbox Raised $6 Million Sequoia-Led Series A In October 2008  permalink

Www.techcrunch.com

Earlier today GigaOm reported that Dropbox raised a new $7.25 million funding round over the summer (a number they derived from a SEC filing but that CEO Drew Houston wouldn’t confirm). We just spoke to Houston, who says that figure is wrong, and it’s off by nearly a year: Dropbox did close a Series A funding round, but it was for $6 ...

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Dropbox Raised $6 Million Sequoia-Led Series A In October 2008 Online Game Developer Nival Network to Raise $5 Million   —  Online game developer Nival Network is closing $5 million round from an undisclosed investor, revealed Sergey Orlovskiy, founder and CEO of Nival Group to Vedomosti newspaper. Nival Network is going to invest the funds into development of Prime World, online strategy game with social networking elements.

Gigaom.com
Dropbox Raised $6 Million Sequoia-Led Series A In October 2008 Dropbox Raises $7.25M, Crosses 3M Users   —  You don’t go into file backup and syncing for the fame and glory, but that’s what it seems to be yielding for 2-year-old Dropbox. Simply put, people — including my GigaOM coworkers and I — love Dropbox because it works. “We do have a rabid following,” Dropbox CEO Drew Houston admitted in a conversation today.

11. Vogue Sees Web Lessons in Obama’s Campaign  permalink

Vogue Sees Web Lessons in Obama’s Campaign
Blogs.wsj.com

The Web consulting firm Blue State Digital helped the Obama campaign raise some $500 million online, catapulting a relative political novice into the Oval Office.

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12. One in 4 Borrowers Is Underwater  permalink

One in 4 Borrowers Is Underwater
Europe.wsj.com

The proportion of U.S. homeowners who owe more on their mortgages than the properties are worth has swelled to about 23%, threatening prospects for a sustained housing recovery.

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13. SearchBrains  permalink

Www.searchbrains.com

Need to reach SEO Professionals? Then SearchBrains can help. With several advertising options you'll find the right campaign to suit your marketing needs.

14. Shock-G Go Head and Rock This – Only 2 Days Left To Register For Free Affiliate Convention  permalink

Shock-G Go Head and Rock This – Only 2 Days Left To Register For Free Affiliate Convention
Jeremy Schoemaker / Shoemoney

The second Affiliate Convention is going to be held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles California on Thursday December 3rd and Friday 4th. Free registration for affiliates closes on Friday November 27th though paid tickets are available online or at the event for those who miss the cut-off date. People always complain [...] This ...

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Shock-G Go Head and Rock This – Only 2 Days Left To Register For Free Affiliate Convention Affiliate Marketing Research Provides Benchmarks for 2009   —  Successful marketing is built around accurate forecasting and benchmarking. In an industry like the affiliate industry which is not known for transparency, getting numbers to help you set accurate benchmarks is difficult. There are however resources that can help including: the ecommerce focused reports compiled by MarketingSherpa, eConsultancy&# ...

Affiliateconvention.com
REGISTER EARLY AND SAVE! - AFFILIATE CONVENTION 2009   —  Note: Online Registration for the 2009 Affiliate Convention in Los Angeles ends on November 27, 2009. This also includes registration for FREE AFFILIATES. We must receive your application prior to November 27, 2009 in order to be approved to attend the event at no charge. We recommend that you register early for this event. Early registrations ...

15. If Kerouac Lived In The Present, OnTheRoad, The Service, May Have Interested Him  permalink

If Kerouac Lived In The Present, OnTheRoad, The Service, May Have Interested Him
Www.techcrunch.com

There’s a ton of buzz around location right now. Our discussion on it at the RealTime CrunchUp this past Friday easily could have gone on twice as long as it did. There are just so many interesting facets: Business models, privacy, real-life social implications, and so on. Not surprisingly, we’re seeing an explosion of services that ...

16. Canada, Australia Give OK To Microsoft-Yahoo Deal  permalink

Canada, Australia Give OK To Microsoft-Yahoo Deal
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land

The governments of Canada and Australia have given their okay to the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has published its findings, which say that “the proposed agreement was unlikely to result in a substantial lessening of competition.” The ACCC points to an existing deal ...

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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land
Microsoft: Bing Cashback Price Discrepancies Are A Mistake   —  In response to a report about pricing discrepancies in its Bing Cashback service, Microsoft says it has tools to prevent the problem from happening and the case in question was a mistake on the merchant’s part. The Bountii blog wrote Monday about a pricing inconsistency for the Canon Vixia HV40 camcorder. In Bing Cashback, the price [...] ...

17. Cyber Monday Deals and Holiday Optimization Tips for Affiliates  permalink

Affiliate-blogs.5staraffiliateprograms.com

It’s coming! Are you ready? Cyber Monday is less than a week away. I can almost hear affiliates scurrying around making last minute tweaks and hunting for Holiday deals and coupon codes to add to their sites!

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Cyber Monday Super Affiliate Earns 900,000 and Gives It All Away   —  This is a brilliant story about how to create a buzz, turn it into a super SUPER affiliate success story, earn $900,000+ along the way and then give it all away.

18. Checklist for Writing Online Copy  permalink

Checklist for Writing Online Copy
Www.mikemoran.com

Sometimes marketing copy is quite simple and can get the point across, but now that the Internet has come along, there are more things that you need to think about. For one thing, people don't read copy online, they scan it. And second, they'll never find your fabulous prose if you don't make it search friendly. If you have trouble keeping all ...

19. Product extensions available to all U.S. advertisers  permalink

Product extensions available to all U.S. advertisers
Inside AdWords crew / Inside AdWords

Beginning today, all U.S. advertisers can get started with a new feature of AdWords called product extensions. Like Ad Sitelinks , which we introduced earlier this month, product extensions are a way for you to enrich your existing AdWords ads with more relevant and specific information. Product extensions allow you to use your existing Google ...

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20. Where to Feast  permalink

Where to Feast
Www.census.gov

Number of places in the United States named after the holiday’s traditional main course. Turkey, Texas, was the most populous in 2008, with 456 residents, followed by Turkey Creek, La. (361) and Turkey, N.C. (272). There are also nine townships around the country named Turkey, three in Kansas.

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