The 2008 election promises to be an exciting and hotly contested one. Jake Matthews takes a look at how some of the leading candidates are doing in their search marketing efforts on Google in Part 1 of a four part series – and gives each one of them a grade in the 2008 Presidential Candidate…
Chris Winfield in USA Today: 'Yahoo co-founder Yang becomes CEO'
Yesterday I spoke to Jeff Graham from USA Today regarding Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang taking over for former CEO Terry Semel. My thoughts from the article: “Yahoo had to do something,” says Chris Winfield, who runs 10e20, a New York firm that helps businesses run search-marketing campaigns. “I’m hoping Jerry gets in there and really…
Chris Winfield in The LA Times: 'Mahalo, Call it a search-engine curator'
Yesterday I spoke with Alex Pham from the Los Angeles Times for an article she was doing about Jason Calacanis’ new “search engine” called Mahalo. The article was published today and I am quoted in it: Calacanis, a New York native who lives in Brentwood, said Mahalo didn’t have to keep up with everything —…
Google's Hot Trends – Apparently Not All Fluff
Yesterday I wrote a post titled What part of a graduate’s costume gave the cordon bleu cooking school its name? No, I’m not trying to compete with Yahoo! Answers and launching a new service. That strange phrase (without the question mark) was actually the hottest term in Google’s new Hot Trends service at the time…
Chris Winfield in The NY Post: 'Ad & Subtract'
Yesterday I spoke with Holly Sanders from The New York Post and appear in her article in today’s paper called Ad & Subtract. The article is all about the recent emails that Google sent out to many AdSense publishers informing them that their accounts would be disabled on June 1st. Search experts said Google routinely…
What part of a graduate's costume gave the cordon bleu cooking school its name?
Yesterday Google unveiled a new addition to their Google Trends service. Google Trends shows the most popularly searched terms from the beginning of 2004 to now and charts a particular terms popularity throughout the different regions of the world. The new service is called Google Hot Trends and they hope this will share more insights…
Women Invent Things Too – Google Fixes "she invented"
Eariler this month there was an extremely popular story on Digg which told the story of a guy and an argument he was having with his girlfriend. In an attempt to prove him wrong, his girlfriend did what so many of us now do, she turned to Google for the answer: I was arguing with…
Chris Winfield in Investor's Business Daily
Yesterday I spoke to Pete Barlas from Investor’s Business Daily (regarding Microsoft’s recent acquisition of online ad firm aQuantive for $6 Billion) and my quick thoughts are in today’s paper: ….just Thursday, ad agency WPP Group agreed to buy 24/7 Media, another ad services company, for $650 million. Microsoft had been rumored to be mulling…
robots.txt: People Don't Always Want Search Engines to Crawl Their Content
What goes through your mind when you read about the silly lawsuits against Google accessing portions of your website? What do you think when you visit the Internet Wayback Machine and find hundreds of pages of your site in its full form (almost)? Most of you wonder what is going on in the minds of…