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June 2006

Initial tests of MSN AdLab demographics seem suspect.

The search blogosphere is buzzing about Google’s pay-per-action AdSense test.

Steve Lohr laments the loss of clever newspaper headlines due to the growing importance of scoring high on the search engines.

I’m pleased to see Yahoo taking a more open approach to their paid search relaunch.

When using a time-of-day paid search bidding approach, you need to compare the cost of the advertising bought in that block with the resulting sales from that advertising, regardless of the hour in which those sales occurred.

When the blogosphere errs, it self-corrects amazingly fast. “With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow” applies to open-source news, too.

We’re proud to support YAPC::NA.

We’re proud of our technology. We’re just as proud as the great folks here who run it.

Few people are putting enough emphasis on the distinction between search click fraud and content click fraud. That’s the key issue, and it doesn’t get the attention it deserves.

For a smile, check out the cheesy Googlehead video on youtube.