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adCenter: 3 hours to pause/resume ads?

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“Why is it still taking 3+ hours (on average) to see ads after resuming campaigns and 3 hours after pausing ads before they actually stop appearing and receiving clicks?”
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Merrill Lynch to Microsoft : Buy Yahoo now

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Merrill Lynch issues report stating that Microsoft should buy Yahoo. When asked Microsoft refused to comment.

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Google To Have 1000 Employees In China By 2007

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Pacific Epoch reports that Google expect to have over 1,000 employees in Google China by 2007. By the end of this year, Google hopes to have 200 employees based in China.
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Google Testing Ad Supported Free Videos

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We knew it was coming, and today Google announces they are running a pilot to test ad supported videos for premium content on Google Video.
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The MySpace Marketing Research Project

Read complete article by Adam Schultz - MarketSmart Interactive from Search Engine Lowdown

Lately, I have been engaged in a MySpace Marketing conversation with Clary Lopez on her Guerrilla Marketers Forum at Lulu.
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Creative Commons comes to Microsoft Office

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“Microsoft and the Creative Commons on Wednesday plan to release a free tool that will let people attach a Creative Commons copyright license to Microsoft Office documents.”
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Adobe Partners with Google But What About Yahoo!’s Partnership with Adobe?

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Danny reports that Google and Adobe formed a deal that will “Adobe will distribute the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer as part of Adobe Macromedia Shockwave Player downloads.”
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Google Censors Google Questions at Google Answers

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Danny digs deep into the censorship taking place at Google Answers. Basically, as I wrote yesterday at SEW, Google Pulls Question About Google From Google Answers.
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Yellow Pages Group Beefs Up YellowPages.ca

Read complete article by Loren Baker, Editor from Search Engine Journal

Yellow Pages Group Beefs Up YellowPages.ca Local Search

Yellow Pages Group has developed a new search platform which allows searchers on YellowPages.ca to be served more structured results after submitting unstructured queries. Local searchers in Canada will now be able to perform intuitive searches with keywords like products, brands or even landmarks.

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How Do You Find Contract Jobs (When You’re an unknown?)

Read complete article by grnidone from Threadwatch.org - Marketing and Technology Discussed

I’d like to know how you guys find contract jobs in SEO/ SEM/ anything. Most of the contract jobs I’ve had I’ve gotten through people I know who have had excess work they needed to farm out, and honestly, I like that arrangement. My sites do all right, however right now, I’ve found myself in a financial bind, and I need some extra cash.

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Google Pages used by Hackers

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Google’s Page Creator is a free website and hosting service put together by Google to let users with virtually no knowledge of HTML, a space of their own on the internet. However, it seems as though some individuals have been using this free service for malicious interactions.
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Chinese Authorities Temporarily Shut Down Two Large Chinese Portals

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PaidContent reports that two of the largest Chinese portals have been temporarily shut down by the Chinese authorities for not passing a “an on-the-spot censorship test.”
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How GeoTargeting Works on Google AdSense

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There is an excellent thread at WebmasterWorld, where the Google AdSenseAdvisor posts how geo-targeting works with Google’s contextual ad program, Google AdSense.
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Google Launches Cost Per Action Model for AdSense

Read complete article by noemail@noemail.org (Andy Beal) from Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim

Reports are surfacing that Google is offering a new CPA model for AdSense publishers.
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Dude Sells Landing Page On Ebay For 10,000$

Read complete article by ShoeMoney from Shoemoney - Skills to pay the bills

So this auction Here
is for a “website” that makes over 12,000$ a month.

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Google Using London to Expand Mobile Search

Read complete article by noemail@noemail.org (Andy Beal) from Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim

Did you know that, on average, there is one mobile phone for every UK resident? When I left England in 2000, the cell phone industry was about 3 years ahead of the U.S. market, so it’s no wonder that The Times is reporting Google is using London as a base for expansion of its mobile search division.
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Google Testing Payment System, Avoids PayPal Comparison

Read complete article by noemail@noemail.org (Andy Beal) from Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim

I’m really curious as to why Google is so touchy when it comes to questions about whether their new payment processing system will challenge PayPal.
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How to Get 5 Billion Pages Indexed in Less Than 30 Days

Read complete article by graywolf from Threadwatch.org - Marketing and Technology Discussed

Seeing how this has hit the front page of Digg I’d say we’re well past the stage of ‘outing’ someone’s spam. So Looking up the whois data we see the domain was registered on May 31st 2006

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What Does Google Censor in China?

Read complete article from Search Engine Guide Blog

Everyone knows that Google has agreed to work with the Chinese government in order to censor search results on the Chinese version of the Google search engine. Many people have also seen some examples of this censorship at play, most…
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Google Analytics Launches Blog

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Google Analytics has launched the Google Analytics Blog to provide product update news, bug fixes, and probably some how to posts….
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