What is Google IndexBench? Someone at Google is up to something that has to do with indexes or benches, or both, and has been purchasing several domains related to the term “index bench.” Gary Price of ResourceShelf and Ask.com pointed out on Friday that Google has registered the following domain names: bench-index.com (and .org, .info), [...]

Yahoo Refunding NFL Game Pass Members Due to problems yesterday with the Yahoo NFL Game Pass system, which steams live NFL games to paid subscribers over the Internet, Yahoo is issuing refunds to its customers. From Reuters : Fans who paid for Week 2 games will be refunded the $24.99 purchase price while annual subscribers, [...]

Andy Hagans on Beating the Google Sandbox When you hear the name Andy Hagans, what comes to mind? My best guess that if I posted this question in poll form, the number one response would be link bait (or possibly #2), followed by link building and possibly article distribution. What comes to my mind is [...]

Microsoft’s Digital Advertising Solutions At Advertising Week this week, Miscrosoft is announcing the launch of “Digital Advertising Solutions” and a media campaign to go with it. It’s an effort to bring together Microsoft’s various properties into a unified platform that gives advertisers ways to buy reach and audiences efficiently: Xbox, mobile, PCs and, maybe, TV. [...]

Hiding Google AdSense in iFrames I’m not sure if this is a surefire way to get a site booted from Google AdSense or not, but Hari K Gottipati, a Software Engineer with Motorola Inc (according to his blog) has figured out a way to earn Google AdSense Page Impressions without displying the Google AdSense ads. [...]

Google & Treatment of International Top Level Domains Belgian blog Netlash looks at different International Google sites (Google.com, Google.be, Google.nl) and does some Belgian based and proxy based searches. They then list the types of sites which appear in each location’s results and which Top Level Domain (TLD) those sites are hosted on. For example, [...]

AdBrite Changes CPC Ad Targeting System AdBrite has made some changes to the order of the ads, or their ranking, in its ‘text’ advertising network (with over 20,000 publishers). Instead of showing the highest bid first, AdBrite is taking a more performance oriented approach to determining which ads are shown and the order of multi-link [...]

Google AdSense Adds Small Square Ad Size Google AdSense has come out with a new sized ad unit, the 200 x 200 “Small Square.” The new Google AdSense ad size can run both text and image ads and may be large enough for some multimedia advertising. Jen Slegg comments that the new 200 x 200 [...]

Yahoo Buying Facebook for $1 Billion Still think Yahoo is having money problems? According to an article published by the BBC, Yahoo is incredibly close to sealing a one billion dollar deal with Facebook, the social networking site. A Facebook acquisition would add yet another strong community offering to the Yahoo Social Media family, which [...]