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News archives for the week of January 2, 2006
January 6, 2005
Google anticipates many exciting announcements on Friday at the CES show
A Google representative responded to an interview request by saying
that the company anticipates "many exciting announcements" on
Friday. (Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is scheduled to give a
CES keynote at 4 p.m. PST on Friday.) According to a Jupiter
Research survey, only one in four people were interested in
downloading video via the Internet. Just 28 percent of poll
participants between the ages of 18 and 24 had ever watched a
video online. "It's safe to say that only a small minority of
the population are doing anything with downloadable video," said
Todd Chanko, a media analyst at Jupiter, adding that he had no
reason to believe a surge of interest in downloadable video is
just around the corner.
January 5, 2005
Study reveals that search and online advertising performs best
In the Internet Industry report, Rashtchy predicts that stocks in
the Internet sector will bring returns over 20 percent for 2006,
exceeding the 12-percent return of 2005. Within the sector, search
and online advertising performed best, increasing by 23 percent for
the year, and advertising services were up 18 percent. Google
itself will be a factor in the growth of the overall industry,
according to Rashtchy. "Google is pushing the industry to expand
its offerings and create better versions of existing applications,
creating a much more dynamic industry where innovation is pushing
forward at much faster speed than the past few years," he wrote.
January 4, 2005
Why did Craigslist block its site from the search engines?
Why would Craigslist want to do such a drastic delisting when
webmasters all over the globe are scrounging to get such valuable
search traffic? It could be an effort to deter spammers from listing
bogus links in Craigslist in an effort to have those links followed
by search engines. The delisting may also be an attempt to stop
scraping of the sites content via bots which access cache pages
of Craigslist from search engines, then reprint the content illegally
on other sites.
January 3, 2005
Ford tries Google's AdWords advertising
I brought up the counterpoint that I’d rather buy an American
made Mitsubishi than a Mexican made Ford, and that buying GM or Ford
anymore is more or less supporting the unemployment of the American
worker, and how most Japanese brands sold in the US are now
manufactured Stateside by US employees, not to mention the
differences in quality. Needless to say, I won the argument.
Getting away from NAFTA and Big Auto controversies, Aaron has a
nice little write up on the ad campaign.
