The “Chaos Scenario” is upon us. It’s not proving to be an orderly transition. On one side: “old, dead media” (and the advertising that assumed and furthered its continuation). On the other side: “something...
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In the midst of the onslaught of breathless news coverage of the tech sector, with new devices, features, squabbles, and posturing being the order of the day/hour/minute, it’s sometimes helpful to step back and...
Saddened by the inability of the usual sources to doggedly pursue all angles of this story, it seems that Traffickwag must once again step into the breach. The Register has a few pieces on...
One real benefit of the impending consolidation of Microsoft and Yahoo’s paid search programs will be, I hope, added visibility into their true market share. The latest Hitwise report on search engine market share...
In the U.S., real estate search sites like Zillow have attracted huge enormous user bases and record venture capital funding rounds. This was an idea whose time had come, given the widespread consumer distaste...
On a recent trip to Italy, I was struck by the pricing gap between “insider deals” you might get if you were a local, and the prices paid by harried newbies who just got...
Looking for investment ideas? In this corner: Founded in 1902 and relocated to Duluth, Minnesota, in 1905, this was an unsuccessful mining company at first, but found early wins in areas like the first...
In search marketing, it’s easy to get people obsessed with a particular metric: you express it on a scale of zero to 10. (Remember Toolbar PageRank?) It’s only been a few months now that...
Well, this is bizarre. About a month ago, I posted some incoherent ramblings about number crunching… ramblings that included reflections on Paul the psychic octupus, rapidly declining Iranian fertility rates, and World Cup outcomes....
When a company is #1 at something — or close to it — any hiccup that comes along is proof their days are over… at least in the bored minds of formula-surfing journalists. Remember...