Bill Hartzer

Google’s Googlebot Causes United Airlines Stock to Plummet Says Tribune Company

Apparently Google's search agent named Googlebot (their web crawler) caused the stock of United Airlines to plummet on September 7, 2008. The Tribune Company, in a press released late today, said that "the confusion surrounding a 2002 Chicago Tribune article on the Internet this past weekend started with the inability of ...

Want Online Casinos? Search Uncle Sam Courtesy of Google

Search Engine Roundtable recently pointed out that you can now search all of the US Government web sites courtesy of Google. Using Google's new Uncle Sam search, you can now search the US Government websites. I can see how this would be very useful, especially if you wanted some unbiased ...

2008 Survey Says Undergrads Want to Work for Google

The 2008 Universe IDEAL(TM) Employer Survey says that undergrads' desire to work for Google is growing. The survey also reports that the demand to work for Ernst & Young made a big jump over laster year. Job security and the work-life balance are reportedly top concerns. Nearly one in five undergraduate ...

Black Out Your Google Listing in the Google Search Results

As you know, I am a pretty big fan of Mixx, and I have been using Mixx for a while now, ever since day one. Anyhow, Mixx is not really the focus here; although Mixx is the main reason behind my discovering the fact that you can essentially "black out" ...

Google Tests Site Links Search with Microsoft

I was tipped off today by a WebmasterWorld thread that Google is testing their Site Links feature that includes a search box right under the Site Links. See the screen capture below: From what I can tell, and from the short amount of testing that I've done, the search box appears ...

College Kingdom Educational Search Shows Desperate Need to Clean Up EDU Sites

  College Kingdom has launched new search tools for students, or anyone for that matter, to search over seven thousand colleges', universities', career schools', and adult education programs' websites all at once. This is a great new search tool. However, the search results show the desperate need for those ...

Is Google Knol Really a Wikipedia Rival?

  There's a new kid on the online block named Knol and even this early in the development stage, some people are already predicting that it could bring about yet another significant change to the way we share information on the Internet. Knol is a new Web service being developed ...

Getting Out of the Google Supplemental Index

My fellow linking master buddy pal named Andy Hagans has a great post about escaping Google's supplemental index. “What exactly is that supplemental index again?” I won’t parrot the quasi-official Google answer here. (In fact, I can promise that I will never give you the “official Google answer” on Tropical SEO.) Take ...

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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