Google has added some new searching tools for their news section. You can now search by news source, location, dates and even stories that contain an exact phrase. Check it out here:
Google Advanced?News?Search
Google Press Center: Testimonials
These aren’t your garden variety you-guys-are-great-testimonials. These are testimonials of people that are thanking Google for helping save the lives of their pets and children. How many companies can say they did that?
E-Commerce News: Yahoo Goes for Overture in $1.6B Deal
That was a lot more money than I thought Yahoo would try to get Overture for. I think that’s what Yahoo investors felt too, as that stock went down. But Overture stock owners couldn’t have been more pleased.
LookSmart, who went from being a directory like Yahoo, to something more like a pay per click engine, used to be an all-you-can-eat joint for $0.15 per click.
Well, that’s changed. Now you have to pick a category. This is what you pay per category:
Auto ($0.23 CPC)
Books, Magazines, CDs, and DVDs ($0.23 CPC)
Auctions, Affiliate Malls & Coupon Sites ($0.23 CPC)
People & Relationships ($0.30 CPC)
Business Services ($0.30 CPC)
Professional/Consumer Services ($0.30 CPC)
Moving and Real Estate ($0.30 CPC)
Paid-Download Services ($0.30 CPC)
Retail ($0.30 CPC)
Ticket Services ($0.30 CPC)
Travel ($0.30 CPC)
Education ($0.40 CPC)
Finance/Insurance ($0.75 CPC)
Jobs & Careers ($0.40 CPC)
Health Products ($0.40 CPC)
Credit/Bad Debt ($0.75 CPC)
Online Gaming ($0.75 CPC)
Communications/Internet Hosting ($0.75 CPC)
Overture’s average cost per click is around $0.34. I think LookSmart wants to be a little closer to that action.
This site is getting a lot of attention right now, and consequently, it is pretty slow to come up.
However, the Open Government Information Awareness site puts some pretty powerful strength into the common man’s hand. The basic principle for the site is to allow people to closely follow the lives of politicians. Additionally, anyone will be able to anonymously add information to each politician’s file.
This is going to be interesting because there will be no moderation as to what information is posted. If you know something about a politician you will be able to freely post it to the site. It’s probably going to get really personal and probably ugly.
But ever since the Pentagon’s “Terrorism Information Awareness” site, that allows the government to track any individual who potentially could be a terrorist threat, it’s kind of nice to know that we now have the power to turn the tables a bit.
oreilly.com — Online Catalog: Google Pocket Guide
Crafted from our bestselling Google Hacks title, the Google Pocket Guide provides exactly the information you need to make your searches faster and more effective, right from the start.
Here’s some interesting, fun searching for you. Go to:
Google and type in:
weapons of mass destruction
Then click the button “I’m Feeling Lucky”.
Technorati: Web Services for bloggers.
Cosmos allows you to find what’s new in the blogging universe, and find out who’s linking to whom. Simply type in a URL of a blog, website, or interesting article on the web, and Cosmos will tell you which bloggers are linking to the URL.
Research companies are constantly releasing studies about online marketing, internet-user behavior, and the e-commerce industry in general… Listed below are some links to interesting research findings from the past few months that relate to these areas.