Download Firefox 3 Today: Firefox Download Day to Set a Guiness World Record
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008To build its user base, Mountain View-based Mozilla will attempt a Guinness World’s Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours.
Archive for June, 2008
Yahoo Site Explorer Links
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008Yahoo Site Explorer adds subdomain data SEOptimise (Jun 20)
Reports that Yahoo Site Explorer has added a third choice for Show Inlinks. In addition to All pages, and Except from this Domain, there is Except from this Sub-Domain.
Accoona now a B2B
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008Accoona, Once Pretender to Search Throne… Now Niche B2B Service by Richard MacManus, Read Write Web (Jun 19)
Internet Commerce Association Establishes Presence in Europe
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008Paris, France (PRWEB) June 18, 2008 — On the opening day of the Domainer Meeting, the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) announced that, in cooperation with EuroDNS, it will establish a sister organization in Europe. Internet Commerce Association-Europe (ICA-EU) will be headquartered in Luxembourg to better represent its members with the EU Parliament and agencies located in Brussels, the European Court located in Luxembourg, and the separate governments of the nations of Europe.
Internet-savvy voters shake up US presidential election
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Videos shared on YouTube and blogs scrutinizing candidates are part of an Internet-age revolution shaking up the US presidential election and sweeping in a new political era.
Using Google Trends
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008Google Trends (now available in the google.ca domain as well) has been interesting for what it can indicate about a topic by picking up search trends for keywords. Now it will analyse a site domain. But you have to run a keyword search first, and then select Websites from the results set. (Odd design).
“Google Trends, a service Google started two years ago to track searched-for keywords, has unveiled a new tool for inquiring minds looking to find out more on any given site. Like tracking services Compete and Alexa which use tool bars to grab user data, Google Trends now lets you pop in specific domains and compare basic traffic information about any .com site (or .tv, .biz, .net, and so on) using nothing more than organic user searches.”
Microsoft UK pilots TIE Kinetix Digital Channel Manager solution
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008TIE Commerce, a provider of Business-to-Business e-commerce software, has announced that Microsoft in the United Kingdom will pilot the TIE Kinetix Digital Channel Manager Solution with selected UK resellers.
Two top schools rugby teams from England on line
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008Sri Lanka’s junior ruggerites are in for treat over the next one month. Gordonstoun School which happens to have one of the best rugby teams in England and Wales, will arrive on June 28 for a 14 day rugby and sight seeing tour. They will be followed by another top school from the same region in the form of Bancroft College who will touch down on July 22 for an eight day tour. Bancroft by the way is bringing both their first 15 and second 15 teams to tour the island.
China Internet control unacceptable: EU
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008“We say for instance to the Chinese, very clearly so, that their blocking of certain Internet content is absolutely unacceptable,” said Vivian Reding, the European Commissioner for Information Society and Media.
What is Pay per Click (PPC)?
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Pay per Click is a type of search marketing where advertisers pay a set amount every time their ad is clicked by a prospect (otherwise known as a click thru).
Some search engines, such as Overture, specialize in this type of advertising medium, although pay per click is not limited solely to pay-per-click engines. For instance, Looksmart, a directory, recently changed its business model to pay per click. Also, XML trusted feeds through Inktomi and Fast are sold at a per-click basis.
