OAKLAND, Calif., June 8, 2005 -- Ask Jeeves(R), Inc. (ASKJ) today announced that Bloglines(TM) (www.bloglines.com), the world's most popular free online service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content, has set a new standard among newsreaders: 500 million blog and news feed articles are now stored in the service's comprehensive, searchable database.
Bloglines' milestone reflects the meteoric rise in popularity of blogs as a new communication channel, the development of RSS-type technologies for content syndication, and the creation of user-friendly newsreaders to simplify the process of subscribing to blogs and news feeds of interest. Between January and June of this year, the size of the Bloglines index doubled. And each day Bloglines adds 2 million to 2.7 million new blog and news feed articles to the database, drawn from a diverse range of sources in many languages -- from blogs about knitting to major online newspaper feeds.
Much has been said about Google collecting personal information from web surfers. Some people are even so disturbed by Google's data mining that they have completely banned Google from their web sites.
What exactly does Google know about you if you use their services? In this article, we try to collect a list of things that Google knows about you.
If you frequently browse any of the main search engine forums you know that probably 75% of most search marketer's efforts are on Google, at least in terms of organic or algorithmic search.
That is probably because Google is a tougher nut to crack, and does seem to bring back the most relevant results in many cases.
Further, Google tends to account for most of the search engine referrals many sites get. But does Google really account for that many search referrals because it does a good job? Or is it because people tend to optimize for Google, and what they are seeing are the net results?
I've long been an advocate of a form of online marketing that I personally call "article marketing." Yahoo! has recently added a layer to article marketing which is extremely exciting, and any one who uses the power of articles needs to take notice.
Say the word "emotion" to a man, and he'll immediately jump out of his seat and run from the room! Utter the word "emotion" to a woman, and she begins to conjure up thoughts of romantic, long talks centered around feelings. However, speak the word "emotion" to a copywriter and s/he should see dollar signs. Why? Because a good command of subtle emotion is the key to copy that works.
While sleeping through a lecture recently I roused for just long enough to catch the lecturer saying that "Error messages should not try to be funny or amusing, they should be clear and concise". This got me thinking about the ever-elusive goal of user friendliness. The concept has changed much over the years with packages such as DOS going from being one of the easiest packages on the market, to now being complicated, convoluted, and ignored. I have begun to wonder why I am being taught that computers have to be boring to be user friendly.
Increasing from 32 Million U.S. Households in 2004 to 69 Million in 2010
NEW YORK, NY - June 2, 2005 -- JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM), today released its annual forecasts of the U.S. online population and broadband access. Two JupiterResearch reports, entitled "Portrait of the Online Population: 2004-2010," and "JupiterResearch Broadband Forecast: Competitive Pricing and Increased Availability Speed the Decline of Dial-Up", present JupiterResearch's latest projections of the growth of Internet usage by American consumers. According to these reports, the overall online population in the United States is maturing and will grow relatively modestly over the next five years, from 75 million households at the end of 2004 to 88 million by the end of 2010. Residential broadband adoption, however, will increase dramatically from slightly under half of online households in 2004 to 78% of online households by the end of 2010.
Podcasting is increasing in popularity and, realizing that many are interested in providing audio content in a podcast, we have assembled a collection of tools that make creation, promotion and listening to podcasts a little easier.
HELP! My PR page rank is grey, call the development doctor. As the world of Google is turning a mile a minute these days, some really big changes are happening. This weekend, marketers all around the world don't believe what they are seeing... Google's Page Ranking system is dead.
If you are one to pay attention to what happens within the Google realm, you might find yourself thrown for a loop these days. As Google updates their results, it seems like they are having some issues dealing with so many new websites popping up.
Indexing 8 billion websites is quite an accomplishment for Google. As they are reluctant to increase this number, they are faced with many challenges in trying to keep some sites within these 8 billion pages while losing some others, after each update of their database.