SEOs were nowhere near as amazed as the general public when atheist Redditors made Doctors Without Borders one very happy charitable organization. Reddit has long been regarded as one of the best places on the web to make something go viral – if it ever will. Redditors are dedicated to rewarding what is worthy and [...]
SMM and Reddit Take Center Stage for Charity
December 15th, 2011Google Turns Travel Guide
February 21st, 2011In November, Blumenthal’s blog pointed out that Google might help save hotels from Priceline, pointing to Google’s fledgling hotel booking feature: “This feature facilitates the process of getting bookings and removes friction from it. It also provides additional advertising inventory for Google from hotel booking services. The feature is not totally mercenary as it also [...]
AOL and Google Still Buddies
September 5th, 2010Back five years ago, Cnet announced the complex agreement that AOl and Google came to: “Google will invest $1 billion for a 5 percent stake in Time Warner’s America Online unit as part of a partnership that expands their existing search engine deal to include collaboration on advertising, instant messaging and video. Google also is [...]
French Newspapers Take on Google News
July 25th, 2010Six prominent French newspapers are joining forces to create an online news site in competition with Google News. France’s National Daily Press Union announced the plan yesterday and said the virtual newsstand will be launched in September. Le Monde, Libération, Le Figaro, Les Echos, Le Parisien and L’Equipe are planning to develop and finance the [...]
Google Omnicon Deal in the Works
July 18th, 2010According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, Google is soon to be announcing a deal with Omnicom Media Group, one of the major global ad holding companies: (WSJ) Omnicom, part of New York-based Omnicom Group Inc., is expected to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy display ads for its clients through [...]