The deal that was soooo close to happening so many times and never came through, well, finally came throughwith a lot less lead-up and fanfare than anytime it was rumored to be happening. I think this will be a good opportunity for Yahoo to spend time working on its content even more, and to help [...]
Entries Tagged as 'online marketing news'
Yahoo and MSN merge search – it’s official
July 29th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: bing · bing sucks · fail · Google · Google sucks · MSN · MSN sucks · online marketing news · Search News · win · Yahoo · Yahoo sucks
2009: The year of checkout optimization
July 16th, 2009 No Comments
Yes, we here at Search Engine Snark are all about the search. But even we have to confess that man cannot live by search alone, but by every channel that proceedeth from the mouth of the internt (note to self: add ‘bad biblical allusion’ tag to site’s repetoire). All the search traffic in the world [...]
Tags: conversion optimization · online marketing news · shopping cart optimization · Stuff I found · win
TV Shows Leveraging the Web to Extend Jokes
March 12th, 2009 No Comments
Fantastic article on Yahoo today about how TV shows (and How I met Your Mother in particular) are using quickly thrown-together websites and social media to carry over gags from the show to the real world:
Together, they’ve made a MySpace fan page (http://www.myspace.com/robinsparkles) for pop singer Robin Sparkles, an alter ego of the show’s Robin [...]
Tags: online marketing news · traditional media · win
Congress wants to repeal online gambling ban
February 23rd, 2009 No Comments
Fresh off the $787 billion stimulus package needed after short-sighted, um, gambles on risky mortgages, Congress in general and Barney Frank in particular wants to repeal the online gambling ban. Yeah, there’s no way that this could go wrong. Not like we have a recent history of consumer-level speculation going bad, nor of government efforts [...]
Tags: online marketing news · political seo · Search News · SEO News
