Hold On: Are More Papers Really Joining Murdoch’s Google Block Party?
November 24, 2009 at 1:32 pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Bloomberg has a story out suggesting that the publishers of the Denver Post and the Dallas Morning News may be joining Rupert Murdoch’s coalition of the willing to block Google. But I don’t think that’s what going on at all, and I’m trying to clarify things. Dean Singleton, CEO of MediaNews Group, which publishes the Denver [...]
Under The Hood: Google News & Ranking Stories
November 24, 2009 at 9:00 am ET by Danny Sullivan
Forget PageRank, at least if you’re a news publisher looking to do well in Google News. Google’s news service doesn’t rely on the same algorithm used by “regular” Google, of which PageRank is a part of. Instead, Google News taps into its own unique ranking signals, which include user clicks, the [...]
Offensive Michelle Obama Image Returns, Google Buys Ad To Explain
November 23, 2009 at 4:55 pm ET by Matt McGee
Google is buying ads to explain why an offensive image of the First Lady is back in its index and ranking so highly on searches for Michelle Obama in Google Image Search. As we reported last week, Google had originally removed the Michelle Obama image on the grounds that the site hosting the image violated Google’s [...]
Multinational Search - Bill Hunt
At a recent international search marketing conference in London the most frequent question asked by the audience was “How do I get my content found and indexed by global and local search engines?” During the breaks I talked to a few people who indicated little or none of their local market content was being indexed [...]
Industrial Strength - Niraj Shah
Paid search marketing is complicated enough, and several long-held industry myths aren’t helping make your job any easier. Debunk these SEM tall tales once and for all, and your campaigns will be well on their way to higher ROI.
Link Week - Julie Joyce
In this crazy digital era where even people like my poor old gospel-singing father look online for almost everything (usually guns and cashews), you really need to understand how to use as many types of advertising as possible in order to improve your efforts and expand your reach. Since link building is all over the [...]
Let's Get Social - Ciarán Norris
I’ve just had a rather surreal afternoon, having been asked (at very short notice) to appear on Channel 4 News (the main news show on one of the UK’s 5 terrestrial broadcasters.) I was invited on the program to to discuss Rupert Murdoch’s reported plans to link up with Bing at the same time as [...]
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- AndoverIT said " I think Murdoch appears to think he can control the web like he does the press and appears to be get"
- Michael Martinez said " The scope of the deal in Australia, at least, is considerably less than it would be here in the U.S."
- alanmitchell said " Seems like a smart move by Google to monetize organic traffic."
- DanEggleston said " Andrew, I’m glad that my recent Mediapost article is spawning an interesting debate about attributio"
- cranberryindia said " Presently we need to see how the end users react to the Murdoch's views. If we look at history of we"
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