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Affiliate Convention LA Next Week, Free Admission Open Til Friday
Affiliate Convention starts next week in Los Angeles and if you act fast there is still the chance to get full access for free until Friday. WebmasterRadio.FM and AffEuro.com are bringing the second Affiliate Convention to the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles California on Thursday ...
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Italian Govt. Seeks Jail Time For Google Execs
The Associated Press reported that Italian prosecutors are seeking "six-month to a year sentences for four Google executives Wednesday over an Internet video showing the bullying of a teenager with Down's Syndrome." The Italian government believes Google had a responsibility of the published ...
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Bing Hands Out 1,000 MasterCard Cash Cards at Boston and Seattle Airports
If you're traveling through Boston's Logan Airport (BOS) or Seattle-Tacoma Airport (SEA) today, you have the chance to be one of 1,000 lucky people randomly selected to get a MasterCard cash gift card worth $15. That's the price of checking luggage on some airlines. Bing is doing these ...
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AdCenter Updates Pop-Up Help Boxes
Microsoft's adCenter have updated their pop-up help boxes to make them more, um, helpful. The boxes now offer a "More" link that expand the information you have access to. They also offer assistance to guide you through the task you're embarked upon. There are also links to support and ...
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AdWords Makes Product Extensions Available to All U.S. Advertisers
Google has unleashed a new feature in AdWords and is making it available to all U.S. advertisers. The feature is called Product Extensions and it uses information from an advertiser's account in Google Merchant Center. Product extensions allow images to be shown with your ad. However, unlike ...
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Chris Liddell to Exit as Microsoft CFO; Peter Klein to Take Over Role
Chris Liddell will be leaving his role as Microsoft's Chief Financial Officer at the end of 2009. Replacing him will be Peter Klein, who has been corporate vice president and CFO of Microsoft's Business Division (MBD). Here's the official Steve Ballmer statement on the matter: Chris and ...
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Google Launches Mobile Version of Movie Search for iPhone, Palm and Android
Tomorow, when you're so stuffed with turkey that you can't get up and check movie times on your laptop or desktop computer, just reach into your pocket. If you have an iPhone, Palm, or Android, simply fire up your mobile browser and visit http://www.google.com/movies . However, since Google ...
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Bing Mobile App Now Available for BlackBerry Curve
A few weeks ago, Bing made its mobile application available for BlackBerry Storm devices. Now, the BlackBerry Curve is getting the mobile app treatment from Bing. If you buy the new BlackBerry Curve 2 (8530) from Verizon, the app will come pre-installed in the device. If you have a different ...
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Microsoft-News Corp. Talks: A Marriage Made in Hell?
Two weeks ago, I commented on Rupert Murdoch's threat that News Corp. was thinking of blocking Google from being able to search its Web sites: " Murdoch to Google: Drop Dead ." Now it appears that Microsoft and News Corp. are talking about a deal that would involve News Corp getting paid to ...
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Google Tweaks Product Search Just in Time for the Holidays
Days before masses bust down the doors of brick and mortar stores and burden e-commerce servers, Google has released updates to its Product Search . Recent tweaks include: New gallery view Instead of viewing in a vertical list, view products horizontally in rows. Click the gallery ...
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Hunch Tests New Question Flow; Asks for Feedback
If you've used Hunch, you know that you can go through several questions in order to "teach" Hunch about you. Now, Hunch is attempting to improve the process of answering those questions with a new test. And they want your feedback. They test involves non-yes or no questions - and you'll ...
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Google Maps Launches Navigation for Android 1.6
Recently, Google Maps launched Navigation , a robust GPS system for Android. But it only came out for Android 2.0, meaning it could only be used on the brand spankin' new Motorola Droid from Verizon. Good news for Android 1.6 users. You'll get to use Navigation for your Turkey Day travels ...
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Google Launches Mobile Coupons 4 Days Before Black Friday
Google is giving local businesses the ability to make their coupons available to mobile devices . Accessing Coupons You can find coupons on the recently launched Place Pages , which are accessed by searching Google Maps. Offering Coupons If you already have a printable coupon ...
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Yellow Journalism: New York Times Calls for Bing Boycott Over Chinese Results
Nicholas Kristoff took to the pages of the New York Times to call for a boycott of Bing . Yes, Kristoff is attempting to create the news instead of just cover it, and yes, that goes against the fundamentals covered in any Journalism 101 class. Kristoff claims that Bing is cozying up to China ...
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Google to Acquire Display Ad Optimization Startup, Teracent
Google has announced a new agreement to acquire Teracent , a San Mateo display advertising optimization startup. Teracent uses technology that chooses from thousands of elements and machine-learning algorithms to serve up ads in real-time. Elements include tweaking colors, images, messaging, ...
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AOL Previews New Brand Identity for Independence Day
AOL will be going independent in December and they've unveiled their new branding. A new minimalist font has been selected, the "o" and the "l" have been lowercased, a hip period has been added. I love closure. Oh - and the company name will be set against an ever-changing image. Here are ...
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If you aren't at SES Berlin, go to SES Chicago for 11 topics breaking
Search Engine Strategies Berlin is being held this week at the Crowne Plaza Berlin City Centre, and SES Chicago 2009 gets underway in two weeks at the Hilton Chicago. During the past 10 weeks, I've shared 10 important reasons for going to these must-attend events. For those of you who want ...
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Shaking My Head at Steve Ballmer...
Last week, I was shaking my head at Mark Cuban . He suggested that Microsoft pay online publishers to de-index their sites from Google. Presumably, then Bing could go out there and say "Hey, search us to find the Wall Street Journal." I scoffed. I laughed. Who would do such a thing?  ...
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Google News Updates Mobile Site for iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre
Google has made some enhancements to its mobile news site . The updates are just for the iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre. The look and feel is pretty much the same. What's new is more stories, sources, and images. A new "Jump to" link brings a pop up box offering quick access to a specific ...
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Yahoo! Adds Tweets, Breaking News to News Shortcut
After announcements from Google and Bing about incorporating Twitter into their search results, Yahoo! is throwing hopping on the real-time results news bandwagon. Yahoo!'s Twitter integration is part of a new update when the News Shortcut is implemented in the search results. Yahoo! is ...
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