I remember when I first got online back in 1989 via CIX, I knew I’d found something magical, something that enabled me to do or discover things way beyond the confines of the computer itself. Then came CompuServe in 1990 which provided a more user-friendly way of being online albeit in a paternalistic walled-garden sort [...]

Google Instant, the latest offering from Google, has created quite a buzz, as expected. Google Instant predicts search queries and instantly shows results as the user types. This new feature uses Google’s autocomplete technology. When a user begins to type for a search query, it instantly shows popular search results, beginning with those letters. The [...]

Yahoo has published its online style guide as a printed book and it will be available in the market from 6th July onwards. The book called as, The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing and Creating Content for the Digital World; will give you an insight to the writing style for the [...]

When Apple announced its new iAds mobile advertising network for the iPhone and iPad ,Steve Jobs promised features that “cannot be duplicated” by any competitor. It turns out that  one of those unique features is your iTunes purchase data.  An emailed sales pitch from a sales rep from Quattro (a mobile ad network recently purchased [...]

SEMPO (The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) has released it’s annual State Of Search Engine Marketing Report. The 2010 report confirms that Search is continuing its meteoric rise. The North American search engine marketing industry is expected to reach $16.6 billion by the end of the year. This will represent growth of over 13% from [...]

All of the talk of paywalls for online content that gets the bulk of the attention by the ‘press’ is focused mainly on large publications like the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. These publications have international readership and have significant influence when it comes to coverage of the major events in the [...]

Did you get the sarcasm in that one? If a picture is worth a thousand words then Yahoo, bing and Ask.com must be saying “Oh crap, not again!” 250 times right now. Experian’s Hitwise shows why.

What’s the name of that song? You know the one. They play it a lot at NC State football games? C’mon, you know it. “Boom, here comes the boom….” No? Forget it! I’ll Google it instead!