The New AAA Club: Angry AdWords Advertisers
In May 2005, a CNN article quoted Dana Todd, president of SEMPO as saying: "Google has always been worse than bad [at customer service.]" That same article presented the results of an independent survey that questioned 200 advertising executives about the performance of 60 web sites in several categories.

Date: 2006-12-28

Microsoft Files Patent For DVR Advertising
Microsoft has filed for a patent involving ads on Digital Video Recorders. Now, don't worry, they won't be inserting ads over your shows; rather, this patent involves ensuring the ads you see are relevant when you see them.

Date: 2006-12-13

Say It With YouTube Coke Cards
In a clever holiday marketing ploy, Coca-Cola and YouTube have collaborated to bring joy to the world with their online video cards. Sure paper Christmas cards look nice sitting on a mantle, but what else do they do? While they are thoughtful, they cannot actually convey emotion the way that spoken words can.

Date: 2006-12-11

Late Night With Danny Sullivan
The evening keynote at SES Chicago by the person most readily identified with the conference series, Danny Sullivan, looked at the future of search. WebProNews' Chris Richardson frantically typed notes while a balky laptop battery ticked down to zero.

Date: 2006-12-07

Increase Your Site Traffic During the Holidays
Capture those users at the moment they're searching for your products and services. Your ads will appear on LookSmart sites as well as our expanding distribution network on top tier partners: CBS Television Sites, InfoSpace, CNET's Search, Mamma and more. LookSmart's AdCenter, is a robust straight forward platform that makes campaign management painless and includes an easy to implement API.

Date: 2006-12-06

PR Spam And The Bad Pitch
It continues to amaze me how many clueless or sloppy PR pitches we get week in and week out. Just last week it ranged from obvious typos/grammatical errors to claims that a story was exclusive and unreleased when a quick check of Google Blog Search showed nothing less than 10 blogs had already posted on the topic.

Date: 2006-12-04