I’ve always been a stats junkie. In the search marketing business, though, it hasn’t been easy to get the data that matter most. You hear conflicting reports about just how strong competing search engines...
Monday, May 31,2004 Taking Stock of Gmail Most people lucky enough to be test driving Gmail have probably formed their opinions about Google’s radical webmail service by now. I know I have. After my...
It may be awhile before the stock actually trades, but forced disclosure now gives us access to the key numbers for how the company did in 2003. Answer: pretty good. Revenues: $962 million Net income: $106...
Friday, April 30,2004 New Traffick Article By the Numbers: Google IPO Filing Tells Story of ’03 By Andrew Goodman, April 30, 2004 It may be awhile before the stock actually trades, but forced disclosure...
When Amazon.com announced that they were going to launch their own search engine called A9, many search engine observers thought they were nuts. I was one of them. When Amazon.com released its beta search engine...
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 A Good Gig if You Can Get It: Google to Launch Web-Based Email Yahoo! dumps Google. MSN guns for Google. So… Google launches a service that directly competes with those...
Personalization is one of those hip online topics like weblogs, RSS, and streaming music that no commentator has felt the power to resist over the past couple of years. Following a period that generated...
Friday, February 27, 2004 Jobs, Schmobs Reporting on some recent eye-opening departures at MSN Search in his monthly Search Engine Report, Danny Sullivan segues into mentions of the rapid hiring being done by Yahoo...
Tuesday, January 27, 2004 Network Solutions: The Last Bastion of Consumer Privacy The former monopolist domain registrar has blocked Google’s new “whois” search feature where users could type in a shortcut in Google’s search...
Tuesday, December 30, 2003 Smart Matching Tech Developed In-House, Says FindWhat Both Google AdWords and Overture now show their advertisers’ ads on variations of the keywords in their accounts. Google calls its matching technology...