We recently did some pay per click advertising work for a consumer website using a 1300 phone number as its domain name. What’s a “phone name” I hear some of you ask? It’s simply a 1300 or 1800 phone number that actually spells a business name / word if you look at the number keys

Personally, I wasn’t too surprised when I read this morning that Google had asked one of its Blogspot users to remove a MSN search tool from their Blogspot site. According to what I’ve read in various forums there is nothing in Blogger’s Terms of Service to prevent use / advertising of Google competitors. If Google

A stunning 74% of Orkut’s 14 million users say they are from Brazil, according to a Reuters news story. Unfortunately for Google, which started the free social networking service, an alarming amount of child pornography has surfaced on the site, and Brazilian authorities have asked Google Brazil to intervene to prevent the use of the

According to a Times Online article, Wall St analysts are growing weary of Google’s “we don’t do forecasts” policy.
An analyst from RBC Capital Markets sparked a reaction when he gave a golden quote to a business reporter that “Issuing guidance is not ‘evil”” (referring to Google’s famed “Don’t be evil” mantra). When Google initially went

Google responds to the click fraud commentary. Although there is still a complete lack of transparency with regard to the actual “invalid click” numbers, Google must be congratulated for making some kind of public comment to the advertising market about click fraud. As far as I know, Yahoo, MSN and local search engine Sensis haven’t

Google recently had a special analysts day, where Google reveals some information about their strategy for the future.
This blog post has deciphered some interesting meaning from the Google presentation.

Yahoo may have publicly stated that it has already lost the search dominance to Google but Microsoft apparently hasn’t given up the ghost.
This story appeared last week, with Microsoft claiming they would have a better search engine than Google within six months.

I don’t care how big you are - this kind of lawsuit has got to hurt: Blackberry has reportedly just settled a patent lawsuit for a cool US $612.5 million.
Owch.

Lovers of over-regulated, ultra-encumbered bureaucracy may like to consider a sea-change move to Italy - especially if you work in the online gambling field. News just out in the Roman empire: the Italian Government is about to place the onus on local ISPs to prevent local users from accessing online gambling sites.
In Australia and many

Over the past few years, the term ‘geek’ has changed. It’s no longer a term reserved for insults, but used to express someone who’s an uber-techie (and they’re usually very proud of the tag). Personally I think the term is over-used. Knowing how to configure an internet connection does not a ‘geek” maketh. However the