More Stuff I Don’t Have Time to Blog About
Posted by Melanie Phung on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 5:55 pm
Top news, of course, is that Google paid $1 billion to acquire a 5% stake in AOL, beating out the other competitor for AOL’s affections - MSN. Other interesting things going on this week:
- Does Google deal set AOL up for IPO?
- Google teaches AOL how to SEO
- Brief History of Sponsored Search
- Yahoo PPC Ads Being Truncated
- Paid search as information-seeking paradigm
- Yahoo tying RSS into its social media services
- New look for Yahoo SERPs
- Google testing Firefox extension that displays outside blogger comments
- Eight predictions for tech, including why Yahoo’s expansion of search will hurt Google
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Google, ads and technology
- Interview with Andrew Goodman, author of 2 books on Google AdWords
- More AdWords goodness from SiteMaps
- Yahoo shortcuts for even faster searching
- Typo-squatters making money from Google
In addition to these worthwhile SEO-related stories, also check out “What I’m Reading” in the left nav of the homepage. Those are recently surfed links to things that I thought were interesting. The list is powered by a super-duper, extra-secret app being developed by a very smart friend of mine.
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