Is this a new trend? Venture capital the E-bay way? Just days after Kiko sold their failed Web 2.0 calender application on Ebay, another application – appropriately named HuckABuck – a co-called “Web 2.0 search engine” – is also up for sale. “Huckabuck is a metasearch engine that searches Google, Yahoo, MSN, Technorati, Digg & …
Data Scraping Tool
Here’s a useful looking tool. It’s called Dabble, and you can use it to grab web data, throw it into a database, and manipulate that data, all without the need for programming. Here’s a demonstration on how to extract data from Digg. There’s a few demos on the site – essentially it’s a mix between …
Grehan To Take Over Search Engine Strategies?
Heh heh – that’s not true at all (to my knowledge), but it could be. I was thinking about this the other day – Mike Grehan recently left his gig, then a few weeks later, Danny leaves SES/SEW. Curiously, Ammon has posted along the exact same lines (good to see you blogging, Mr Johns). Incisive …
Google Apple Mashup Worries Some
As you may have read, Eric Scmidt, Googles CEO, is joining the board of directors of Apple Computer. What this meansis anyones guess. It’s pretty certain that Microsoft will see it as a threat. Om Malik thinks it’s probably going to impact anyone who has digital media ambitions: “Even though Google is being overtly aggressive …
How Google Detect Arbitrage MFA Sites
Shoemoney posts that Google claim to be using conversion data to identify arbitragers: “Kim explained that in many cases they are using Adwords conversion data to tell what MFA sites were actaully converting for advertisers. She said using this data helps them easily identify arbitragers. I think everyone in the room was a little shocked …
Weird Adsense Case: Google Being Sued For $250K
From Google Watch: “A would-be AdSense customer is suing Google for $250,000 because it took her 100 hours to place and review AdSense advertisements on her Web site, which Google subsequently removed” A few curious aspects of this case: 100 hours to place Adsense code? The site has 24 pages. The site itself – bravacorp.com. …
Paid Blogging Gigs
As some might know, I’m employed as a blogger by V7N. Previously, I wrote a blog called SearchEngineBlog.com, which has been going since 2002, and covers (you guessed it) search engines. I’ve hit the pause button on that blog for the time being, as I also run a web business, and finding enough hours in …
