Facebook Goes Slightly More Public
Facebook’s S-1 was a disappointment. Not that the company isn’t impressive—far from it—but the S-1 mostly reveals that Facebook has already been a de facto public company for at least a year or two....
View ArticleThe market price of privacy, inside Zynga, and even more on Santorum
Bing Hates Santorum, Too Danny Sullivan notes that Rick Santorum’s “Google Problem” is a “Bing problem,” too. The standard argument here is that the “Spreading Santorum” site is obviously and...
View ArticleMore data exhaust, the eBay strategy, and de-anonymizing writing
Google Updates SEOmoz analyzes how Google handles local results. In most cases, Google puts Places results ahead of local organic results, but generally behind at least a few national results. This is...
View ArticleLinkedOut, Klout discounts, and how to destroy an MMORPG
Google Updates Google is already using their new privacy policy to offer search across devices; a desktop search (for a restaurant, for example) will be connected to the mobile search experience...
View ArticleDivesting Rent.com, texting among teens, and the unimportance of validated ads
Which Sites Dominate Search Rankings? SpyFu has some amazing stats on which sites most frequently show up in top Google rankings. The usual suspects are well-represented: Amazon owns product searches,...
View ArticleBankRate’s smart buy, Groupon’s earnings miss, and who wants privacy laws,...
Facebook Updates Facebook now offers ads optimized for “Objectives” such as likes, installs, or ad clicks. That should bump up the low bids, raising the effective CPMs for their pages. It’s unclear how...
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