I'm sure you have received spam advertising promoting programs that promise that you can make money at home using Google Adsense. Yesterday, Google filed a federal lawsuit in district court in Utah, alleging that Pacific WebWorks and other companies, infringed on Google's trademark by incorporating it name into ads for unauthorized, and what Google says are phony products. According to the … [Read more...]
Google Search Announces It Now Is Indexing “Real Time Results” From Facebook, Twitter & MySpace
Google announced on its blog today that it has revamped its search engine to integrate real-time search results from users of Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. "I would say that real time search is the natural evolution of universal search," Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience, said at an event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, … [Read more...]
Yahoo Allows Users To Turn Ads Off Completely
Today, Yahoo released a beta version of a new consumer tool called Ad Interest Manager which allow users of Yahoo to opt out of seeing all internet interest ads. ""To make our ads more relevant and useful for you, we make educated guesses about your interests based on your activity on Yahoo!’s sites and services. Some of the ads we show you reflect these interests. You can opt out of … [Read more...]
Worth $160 Billion Less; AOL.com Goes Back To The Future & Starts Trading All Over Again On December 10th
Earlier this year Time Warner, Inc. announced that it would be spinning AOL off back into a separate public company. Today Time Warner announced that AOL will begin trading on December 10th, 2009. It will mark the return to the stock market for AOL, which was bought by Time Warner about 9 years ago in what is largely regarded as being one of the most disastrous corporate mergers in … [Read more...]
Yahoo Earnings: Total Revenues Down, Search Revenue Down, Profits Up
Yahoo reported earnings after the market closed today saying its 3rd Quarter profit tripled to $187 million, or 13 cents a share, from $54.3 million, or 4 cents a share in the same period last year, topping expectations. Net revenues declined 12% from the 3Q last year to $1,575 million, but were slightly above the second quarter of 2009 Other details from the report were: Marketing … [Read more...]
Google 3Q Earning Up 27% As It Beats Expectations, Again
Google announced it earning for the third quarter after the market closed today, easily beating the street's estimates for both earnings and revenue. Google said sales in the 3rd Quarter totaled $5.94 billion, up from $5.52 billion in the second quarter and $5.54 billion in in 3Q 2008. Excluding traffic acquisition costs, revenue was $4.38 billion higher than the Street's estimate of $4.24 … [Read more...]
Why The Yahoo Class Action Settlement Is Bad News For Domainers
DirectNavigation.com wrote today about a notice that went out to anyone who advertised with Yahoo or the its prior service GoTo.com, on its PPC program(s) anytime from May 1, 2000 until September 22, 2009. That's a lot of advertisers. The class action arose out of a suit by advertisers against Yahoo, alleging that Yahoo: """breached its contract with its customers by allowing Yahoo! ads … [Read more...]