Monthly Archives: April 2004

How you can bid online for Google shares

From the Mercury News: “Google’s innovative initial public offering treats you — the regular investor — as king… Gone are the special favors to wealthy investors. Big institutions won’t have their usual first dibs either. Google will sell at least … Continue reading

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Google Launches IPO

After months of anticipation, Google announced today its preparation for IPO. The innovative search company proved that it can be unusual in all things, including in the way it will get rich — Google will use auction to determine the … Continue reading

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About up, Lycos down

Ah, the times a changin’! Following a facelift, About.com relaunched. What used to a be a decent human-edited directory of unique content is more and more driven by ads which are quite intrusive. So, while the site is up, I … Continue reading

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Keyword Search Spending Accounts for 35% of the Total Online Ad Spending in 2003

Two months ago WebSage reported that “Search engine marketing drove growth in online ad spending in 2003″. Now, backed by numbers for the whole year, the Interative Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoppers further clarify that keyword search engine marketing was the … Continue reading

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Search Engine Wars on NPR

For Europeans (and not only) in the U.S., the National Public Radio (NRP) is a fresh voice of intelligent news coverage and analysis. In April, NPR started a series “Search Engine Wars”. For a new look at the usual suspects … Continue reading

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QSSI SEO Blog

I’ve been away from the WebSage blog trying to recover from a hard drive failure. In addition, I’ve been busy updating the QSSI SEO blog dedicated to helping government web managers understand the impact search engines have on information availability … Continue reading

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