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POPSHave we become too dependent on Google? Read the complete article at the link... Personally, I think this holds very true. As someone who runs a website which relies heavily on Google AdSense / AdWords and their other services, if one of their Google were to malfunction, it could cause a snowball effect which would be disastrous to my website... Something to think about.
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POPSGoogle Megalomaniacs in Bed with Pentagon/NWO Lunatics But note their new “Android” mobile device service, which has 2 alarming features. First, is one app that records the users iris scan, for login purposes. Second, nearly every other app encourages the use of real-time navigational GPS tracking. So on one hand it conditions you to submit your eye iris scans, and on the other it conditions you to embrace constant real-time GPS tracking of your every move. The latter is dually striking as virtually all modern cell phones already embody GPS tracking, except most people aren’t yet aware of that.
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POPSFriendfeed the Next Google?! Steve Rubel makes an interesting argument. For me the last paragraph in the story says it all...the founders know how to scale a product like this; they were all team members at Google and helped to launch such products as Google Maps, Adsense, GMail and Google Groups.
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POPSYahoo turns to Google. Microsoft cries foul. Very interesting move by Yahoo! They may be able to significantly increasing their earnings by integrating Google's search ads on their own site. Talk about a potential blow to microsoft. To think that they're left crying foul about this being anti-competitive after all these years is beyond ironic.
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POPSThings Didn't Happen In 2007 Everybody oohed and ahed over Google's new presentation offering, but then went right on using PowerPoint. Because that's what you use for presentations, everybody knows it. Google gets an 'A' for effort and for presenting alternatives, but as Microsoft is learning with Vista, the public seems rather reluctant to change the status quo. Unless it's for Apple products, that is.
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POPSIs Google the New Yahoo!? Google is a monster when it comes to syndicating its ads on third-party sites. AdSense revenue, which accounts for more than a third of the company's total revenue with its presence on sites like News Corp.'s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace, CNET (Nasdaq: CNET), or Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) AOL and CNN.com, climbed 37% higher this past quarter at Google. That compares to a 13% year-over-year dip in affiliate revenue at Yahoo! during the same period. Google has also been growing beyond the clickthrough, whether it's through impression-based display advertising or expanding its action-based affiliate program spots. There is also the monetization of the fast-growing YouTube. Is revenue growth going to decelerate this quarter? Definitely. Is it going to slam on the brakes and go in reverse? This isn't Crazy Taxi! The comScore data pegged Google's click growth at just 25% this past quarter, but Google's top line actually soared 51%.
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POPSSpamming StumbleUpon not Profitable! So it turns out that yes, spammers may get traffic from Stumblers when they abuse the SU system...But the joke is that Stumblers don't click ads, pay , or buy. This isn't surprising. StumbleUpon was primarily catered to geeks in the early days and the geeks are still here. Geeks aren't a good demographic for internet marketing. LoL
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POPSGoogle shaking up pagerank I noticed my pagerank over at glitchnyc.com dropped from 5 to 4 about a month ago, but I'd just figured that was because I wasn't blogging that much there anymore.
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POPSThe price of privacy Om Malik makes a great point here -- that with all the enthusiasm for social networking there are important privacy questions that will soon become mainstream. Look out for ads so targeted that they are like heat-seeking missiles!
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POPSWhy Blogging is a Joke The idea of Blogging seems really stupid. Seriously, why would you make sort of an open-faced diary of your thoughts and feelings for all to view?
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