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Today’s the first day of SMX Advanced 2008 in Seattle, and the President of Microsoft’s Platform & Services Division, Kevin Johnson, announced the release of adCenter Desktop Beta only moments ago. Traditionally, the only means for managing adCenter campaigns was through a web browser, which could be quite tedious and inefficient for large or [...]

Link bait is defined in our lexicon as “a method of accumulating a large number of inbound links… through unique sensational editorial content or tools… submitted to social media sites in hopes of building inbound links from other sites.” Its ability to generate a substantial amount of relevant links has caught the attention of many.
Unfortunately, [...]

Yesterday, Google Health Beta was launched with praises from some and to the dismay of others. The idea of a Google service for health care providers had been speculated as early as July of 2006, with a confirmation of the Google Health project by CEO Eric Schmidt in February of 2008.
Google Health is primarily a [...]

Riddle: Ask.com has well-organized ones, Google has ugly ones, and now Yahoo is implementing them too. What are they?
Answer: Universal search result pages (a.k.a. blended search or federated search).
Universal search pages, or as Yahoo calls them, "Glue Pages," have been showing up on Yahoo India late last week. While still in beta, Yahoo’s Glue Pages [...]

While the rest of the world celebrated "Cinco de Mayo" yesterday, Ask.com’s homepage flaunted a "Cinco do Mayo" as seen below.

It was probably just a hasty typo and I don’t think anyone will (or should) be fired over this, but let’s poke some fun at Ask for the oversight anyway.
Random thoughts that [...]