Today we received an email from Google about changes to the Google Adwords Professionals Qualification.
Found Agency was the first Australian company to receive this qualification, with one of our staffers among the first 10 people worldwide to pass the Adwords Pro exam (another staffer made the top 100 - cheers for the special gift Google).

Yahoo’s Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker has admitted that Yahoo does not have aspirations to dominate Google in the field of search. Bloomberg News has reported that Decker said that Yahoo would “be very happy to maintain our market share”.
However even that maintain-the-status-quo aspiration may be optimistic. According to data released by US-based web tracker

So Google reports its Quarter 4 profit tomorrow. For internet companies, that number can represent an important bellwether for their fortunes over the coming weeks. When Google ’s profit rises, many online companies’ expectation of ongoing internet growth also rises with it (but not obviously by the same exponential. I know I’m a little premature

Were you lucky enough to get shares in the Google IPO? Still holding them? Given the recent slide in the share price, you might like to know about the new Google Podium where you can read transcripts and see webcasts from presentations made by the top of the Google management team.
Might give you some insight

I first predicted it nearly three years ago (man I wish I had started a blog back then so I could prove it) but anyway someone’s now actually gone and done it. Started a dedicated search engine marketing magazine, that is. The Search Marketing Standard will launch in May this year, although it will only

If you weren’t at the cricket or the tennis or having an Australia Day barbecue yesterday then you might’ve noticed something interesting on every TV news broadcast in the country: a mini-furore about Google’s decision to cede to the Chinese Government’s “restricted information” internet censorship rules. In case you missed it, Google has decided to

You know you’re truly hot tamales when The Economist decides to run a feature piece on your company. This week’s feature in the mag’s Business section? Google. Of course.
One particular paragraph in the article - which was glowing in its overall review of Google’s progress - particularly caught my interest. It resonates with a growing

Here’s an article about the French solution to Google’s growing power - subsidise a French company to create yet another search engine … albeit in the French language.
Personally, I understand the French Government’s concern about Google’s monopoly-like power in search. Whether this is a smart solution to increase competition though is very questionable.

Civil liberatians may think this is US Government policy gone mad. According to a CNET news article, it is now officially illegal in the USA to anonymously “annoy” someone over the internet.
The CNET article claims that the legal wording of the new legislation means that any kind of internet “annoyance” - even something fairly benign

It’s gloomy outside and I hate to admit it, but I am a little bit superstitious. Going to take it easy on the blog post today - don’t want to risk any Black Friday lawyer’s letters, now do I?