Noteworthy Websites and More

There are quite a few online subscriptions I read regularly and the one I read pretty much on a daily basis is ‘The Best Article Every Day’. The articles tend to be short and informative. For example, today there was an article entitled; ‘15 Noteworthy Websites That...

Is Online Advertising the Bastion of Hope During this Downturn?

I was doing some of my daily news digging when I came across the following chart on MarketingCharts.com showing the Share of Ad Spending by Medium as of September 2008. With all of the discussion these days about TV and print advertising suffering during the (brace...

Google’s Resources for Tracking Diseases and Outbreaks

A lot of people are unaware of Google.org, the philanthropic wing of Google. Since its inception, Google.org has been involved in a variety of initiatives covering such global issues as health and disease, climate change, education, poverty and alternative energy....

Scanned Documents Now Searchable at Google

Last week Google began turning PDF files of scanned printed documents into digital text, and as a result their searchable index has expanded once again. Previously, only rarely would a scanned document appear in the organic search results. With the technology of...

Microsoft Joins in with Mobile Display Ads

Google, Yahoo, and others are already there, and now Microsoft has decided to follow the leader with the launch of Mobile Display Ads. On Tuesday Microsoft Announced it had opened the doors for advertisers to display banner ads directly to Windows Live Messenger and...