Alexa : Worthless & Easy to Manipulate? This week blogger John Chow revisited the 8 year old argument on the value of Alexa ranking. Alexa is an Amazon owned web search and traffic measurement company which gauges the popularity of a web site based upon the visits of Alexa Toolbar, A9 Toolbar and other web [...]

Domains, Branding & Web 2.0 If you’re a traditional (offline) company you can create a domain name that doesn’t identically match your company name. For example, if you are “Widgets R Us” you could be WidgetsRUSonline.com or GetWidgets.com, and so on. Your offline brand and online presence don’t need to match 100%, although it’s desirable [...]

Only A Moron Would Buy YouTube Is YouTube the darling success story of Bubble 2.0 or a legal train wreck waiting to happen? Mark Cuban spoke about the uber-popular video uploading and sharing destination yesterday with a group of advertisers in New York. Here are some snippets from a Reuters story on Mark’s comments: “They [...]

Google Reader Update : Tags, Sharing, Blogging Google has taken its blog & feed aggregator, Google Reader, to the next level with an across the board update which adds to the service’s usability while also adding a more social experience to feed aggregation. The new Google Reader, about a year old and part of the [...]

Yahoo Search Teams with HP Computers Yahoo has signed another search toolbar and home page distribution partnership with a large computer manufacturer, this time Hewlett-Packard Co. The Yahoo / HP deal is the second announced this month, as Yahoo and Acer formed a similar partnership on September 14th. The Yahoo-HP deal will distribute Yahoo toolbars [...]

Google & Yahoo Driving Local Search Growth Last night comScore released a new analysis of the size and growth of the local search market in the United States. comScore defines local search as ‘searches conducted by consumers on the local or directory (Yellow Pages) sections of leading search sites, and other searches identified as having [...]

Country Specific Link Building Are you running a US centric link building campaign for a site which is targeted for the residents of another country? Cre8asite member Phaithful addresses link building for various geographic locations when a forum member asks “does the geographical location matter when u plan to buy paid link. i mean as [...]

Google Advertising Google Video via Google Video AdSense What a better way to get the Google Video Ads off and kicking than by Google advertising their own video upload, search and sharing service, Google Video. Ionut Alex posts on Google Operating System: In one of the ads, they show a popular video from Google Video [...]

Google Outage on Major US ISP There was apparently a major (or minor, depending on how you look at it) Google outage on Tuesday which ‘blacked out’ parts of the North East US and the Comcast Online ISP. The outage, which effected many in the Boston area, blacked out usage of all Google properties, including [...]