Bill Hartzer

AOL to Change Name to TMZ

  First, it was "America Online". Then, in 2006, "America Online" changed its name to "AOL". Now AOL will reportedly change its name, yet again, to TMZ. In April, 2006, America Online announced that after 15 years it was "retiring the name America Online and will now officially be known ...

100 Best Global Brands; Google, Zara, Apple, and Nintendo Top Gainers

According to the BusinessWeek/Interbrand annual ranking of the top 100 best global brands released today, Google, Zara, Apple, and Nintendo are among this year's top gainers. Google ranks 20th in the list. Yahoo! ranks 55th in the list. This is the seventh year that BusinessWeek has teamed up with ...

Search Engine Marketing Helps Boost Your Brand

By Guest Writer Steve Waganer Success and failure of a particular business depends upon the kind of publicity done. This is true in the case of online and other businesses also. There are different methods that can be used for the promotion of any goods or services, but the key lies ...

Amazon.com Shuts Down Amazon Associates Affiliate Program

Amazon.com has "jumped the gun" so to speak and shut down its affiliate program, the Amazon Associates Program, to associates who live in the State of North Carolina. Amazon.com is taking this unprecedented step of shutting down their affiliate program ahead of what they're calling an "unconstitutional tax collection scheme ...
June 24th 2009
Tags: Word of Mouth Marketing 3 Comments

Zuberance Webinar June 24 Shows How to Turn Word of Mouth into Sales

Zuberance, a Word of Mouth marketing company that provides an on-demand platform that enables B2B and B2C marketers to identify and mobilize their Advocates, generating leads and sales, is hosting a free webinar on June 24th (today) 11 AM Pacific Time about how to turn "word of mouth" into actual ...
June 18th 2009
Tags: Internet Usage 6 Comments

comScore Releases May 2009 Search Engine Rankings

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the United States search marketplace. In May 2009, Americans conducted 14.3 billion core searches. Google's websites continued to lead the US search market in April 2009 with 65.0 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! (20.1 percent), ...
June 17th 2009
Tags: Ask.com, Search Engines 9 Comments

Ask.com Unveils Database of 300 Million Questions and Answers

Got a question? Well, according to Ask.com, they have the answer. Well, apparently they now have the answers to 300 million questions. Ask.com has unveiled a database of 300 million "Q&A pairs". Ask.com used their "proprietary core search technology" launched in the fall of 2008 and came up with 300 million ...
June 8th 2009
Tags: Search Engine Marketing 18 Comments

User Centric Releases Results of Eye Tracking Study: Google Versus Bing

User Centric has released the results of an eye tracking study that compares data between Google and the new Microsoft search engine Bing. What is interesting to note is that sponsored links are attracting more attention than they are on Google. Google users appear to be more aware of the ...

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