You have four seconds to get your site loaded and about one-twentieth of a second to impress the visitor before she flits on like an attention-deficient hummingbird. But before that, you have about one second, in the search results, to get her attention in the first place. And just like the tentative beginnings of most romances, it’s all about what you say, how you look, and where you live.
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This year’s Academy Awards were particularly sweet for director Martin Scorsese, who received his first Oscar in five nominations for his behind the camera work in The Departed, which was also awarded the Oscar for Best Picture.
Unfortunately for Scorsese, he won’t be able to relive the moment on YouTube or any other video sharing site anytime soon.
That’s because YouTube has acquiesced to a Tuesday request from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences that clips from last Sunday’s Academy Awards be immediately r (more…)
Yahoo may soon file opposition to AOL?s Instant Messenger trademark at the U-S Patent and Trademark Office (also known as USPTO). Yahoo?s Attorney David M. Kelly filed four separate requests for additional time to investigate the claim. AOL has used the term ?Instant Messenger? since 1997, though several adversaries disputed the term ?Instant Messenger? as a general phrase to depict text messaging services and platforms in general.
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Recent reports indicate that Google gets ready to set up shop in Singapore. Google has yet to confirm the reports, but it seems that Google plans on building the first research and development center in Southeast Asia. Google?s director of Southeast Asian operations Richard Kimber told The Straits Times newspaper why Google would choose to develop a property there.(more…)
Paul Slogan from Business 2.0 recently wrote a great article on the quest for the perfect online ad. He discusses how although Google is the king of search, users only spend 5% of their time searching. With users spending 95% of their time on the Internet engaged in non-search related activities, how can you target them? I don’t think there is an answer, but here is how I would go about cr (more…)