AndrewGirdwood

A write up of the first webinar held by comScore on mobile after their purchase of m:metrics. Yahoo has a larger slice of the mobile pie than they have of the web... read more »
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As Tribble says, "pretty amazing to see the then $1.74 billion Nike account go because W+K didn’t know how Google worked". read more »
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Mixing up Korea with the United Kingdom? Google having to run AdWords instead of organic geo-targeting. Double serving? Spyware via Google. The worst SERP we've seen in a while! read more »
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First Adwords, then Ad Planner and now the Google owned instruction Manual Blog for eliminating your traditional Advertising agency. Think we are kidding? This their first post.

The main site for the Google Traditional Media Blog reads like a man read more »
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Discussions and debates on the viability, necessity, and effectiveness of conversational aka social media marketing continue to roar across the Social Web. read more »
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A blogger has been fined when his post was Googlebombed and comments from users upset a group of authors. He pleaded guilty... read more »
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The web channel was initially regarded as an infinite warehouse without the costs of shops or space constraints, but customers’ early enthusiasm for clicking through many pages of turgid descriptions soon waned. Dimensional navigation and richer ima read more »
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Internet giant Yahoo! Has struck a deal with mobile operator 3 UK to sell display ads and sponsored links on the company's Planet 3 portal site. read more »
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It's time to lock up your daughters, and here's why: The roving spycar of Google's Street View has been spotted prowling the mean streets of London... [photo] read more »
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As Matt writes, "As the head of the webspam team at Google, I'm in charge of making sure your search results are as relevant and informative as possible." read more »
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Today could be the start of an overhaul for the net as we know it. ICANN, a sort of regulator for the net, is voting today to decide if the strict rules on 'top level' domain names, such as .com or .uk, can be relaxed. If this goes ahead it could al read more »
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Ouch! Where's the worst place to advertise your "Put Your Feet Up" site? On a CNN story about six severed feet! read more »
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I wasn't really looking for a new job a few months ago when I received an email from Eric Scheide, the CTO at craigslist. This sort of thing happens all the time.

But this time it was different. read more »
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Okay sure; neither Wikipedia nor Powerset are popular among the SEO community... but the iphone is. Look what happens when you merge all three! read more »
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First Keith Teare, now Fav.or.it. The long in beta service Fav.or.it has launched and despite word that it was suppose to be an advanced feed reader, Fav.or.it has launched with a portal that reprints content from other sites then tries to build con read more »
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A look at how Yahoo's new geo-detect redirects on Yahoo Search is shaping traffic patterns. read more »
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Newly launched Inquisitr has a pretty good scoop. Google denies that Gmail is a spam cannon. read more »
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A great post with some useful tips on the importance of sticky marketing. read more »
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comScore's Media Metrix has figures for Yahoo Buzz's performance in March, which reveal that the new site is already a strong competitor to Conde Nast's Reddit.com - an impressive achievement in its first two months of existence. read more »
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A brilliantly visual analysis and examination of Google's "Don't Be Evil" motto. The scale allows Google and other marketers to carefully measure the impact of their decisions. read more »
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Pereira & O'Dell, a new marketing agency, launch by noting how search agencies are just spin-offs of direct marketing agencies, take themselves too seriously and kill the spark of creative talent. Do you agree? read more »
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There's now 100 organisations behind the Absolut vodka boycott and all thanks to a controversial poster ad. read more »
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TheFounder of the Tribble Agency puts the writing on the wall for traditional American advertising agencies - whether you like it or not; Search and Social media will see an increase in investment and Radio, TV and billboard will see a decrease in s read more »
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*sniff* I'll no longer be able to nip out of Google's London HQ and jump straight into Yahoo's European HQ. They were so close together. The Register explains that not only are Yahoo moving... but staff are being fired unless they move too! read more »
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As El Reg explains,"Chicago-based Privila has built "portals" designed to have relatively high search engine ranking scores while presenting nothing but ads. The firm's modus operandi involves buying sites after the original owner forgets to renew a read more »
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