On Wednesday, a U.S. district court ruled that AOL, Yahoo, and RealNetworks must pay a percentage of their revenues derived from music-oriented services to the American Society of Composers, Artists, and Publishers (ASCAP).? However, the three companies were unable to agree on the rates owed the songwriters, and so a court stepped in and now [...]
More: continued here
In this week's Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
More: continued here
Roll up, roll up, come get your Google juice here.The no follow tag has now been removed from the comments in this blog. This means when you make a comment, you get a little bit of Google juice right at you.I have thermo nuclear spam protection if anyone tries to monkey around, and no putting [...]
More: continued here
The Live Search QnA Blog announced a new release of Live Search QnA. Live Search QnA is Microsoft's question and answer engine, similar to Yahoo Answers. This new release was coined the "Renaissance release," and includes the following enhancements:
More: continued here
Search giant Google is now reportedly seeking a deal with International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) to help sell its desktop applications to large businesses. Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke with a gathering of IBM’s key partner’s on Thursday, revealing that working with IBM would be a very important part of getting Google’s desktop applications out [...]
More: continued here
OK, something has been bothering me.When a piece of web content, be it a blog post, a picture, a pdf, gets called linkbait simply because it gets a bunch of links.Is the term “linkbait” overused?Yes.But why is it important, I mean, who cares?It’s very important in the world of social media marketing to know what [...]
More: continued here
I’ve often written that using a linkbait is like signing a contract with your readers. You’re luring them in with the promise of a reward at the end of the hook. Sometime you can give people what you promise but it’s not in a soundbite format and your readers feel like they never got the [...]
More: continued here