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Web Privacy and Google Personalized Search and Retargeting

It’s now been five years since we posted about the personalized search. Personally, now I love it, I just have to type in Queensbury and Google feeds me “Elementary School” as Google knows I frequent that site. Did we give up privacy? Yes. Are our lives open books to the search engines. Yes. Did you know […]

Media MVP: The Internet

Sara Mannix

The Center For Media Research recently released the findings of the 2010 Digital Influence Index, by Fleishman-Hillard International Communications with Harris Interactive. Not surprisingly, they found that the Internet is the most influential in driving consumer decision making on products and services. In their words: “When it comes to driving consumer decisions about a range […]

So How Big IS the Web?

Sara Mannix

Yahoo and Google squabble over size. Excellent article by Danny Sullivan on this topic – Screw Size! I Dare Google & Yahoo To Report On Relevancy — Quote from the article… I cannot believe we’re going through this again. This is Search Engine Size Wars VI, by my count. It’s absurd. It’s annoying. It’s a […]

Can’t say it better than Bill Hunt

Sara Mannix

From an article by P.J. Fusco – A Business Case for SEM “Very little has changed since 1996 for people who know how to do this. We get accused of not giving any search secrets away,” Hunt said. “Most algorithmic changes made by the search engines are engineered to counter over-optimization. Executing the basics will […]

Internet Evangelist

Sara Mannix

So in addition to chefs, Google now has an Internet Evangelist — Vinton Cerf. And, unlike Gore, he really can claim to be involved in the creation of the Internet. See Who Invented the Internet?

Interesting Washington Post Article

Sara Mannix

My brother and I live a mere 22 miles apart in two separate towns and two different counties. His high speed Internet is delivered via one company, mine another. Coworkers of mine live in the same county as I, but in different towns. Their Internet providers are also different than mine. Currently, this doesn’t pose […]

Net Neutrality Gaining Ground – But On Hold

Sara Mannix

A few months ago – I posted a little blurb about how the companies that provide high speed internet – the cable and telephone companies – were trying to pass a bill that will require search engines such as Google and MSN to pay a fee to the high speed internet companies in order for […]

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