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Google

Google Acquires DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion

April 14, 2007

Google came to prominence with a “Hate Images, Love Text” campaign. Slowly but steadily, they ventured into “banner” advertising, then “video” advertising, then affiliate programs, and now they have purchased one of the biggest “traditional” online advertisement networks, DoubleClick. Their huge dependence on their “advertising” model is both exciting and scary at the same time.

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Google Search Sucks

April 3, 2007

I mean, when it comes to searching and finding a real snake in the real world. Online though, I’m still betting on Google

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How To Start Your Own Video Channel On YouTube

March 19, 2007

Backdrop and Shower curtain from Wal-Mart: $18 Tripod from Sears: $30 Expensive, Wireless Headphone (with “compander circuitry”) that sounds like crap: $100 Cheap-looking, Wired Headphone that just works: $20 Pink-shade Table Lamp: $10 100W bulb (that you need to keep switching off between takes because the lamp-shade says it can handle only 40W): $2 CyberLink [...]

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The Story of Sergey Brin And The Attempted Sale of Google For $1 Million

February 15, 2007

Found this article about Sergey Brin – it covers everything from Sergey’s casual attire at work, to his electric massage chair, to his Russian-Jewish upbringing. Even if you don’t like Google or Sergey, you simply cannot pass up on reading about the founders of one of the largest corporations in the world. Some highlights from [...]

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How To Use and Ping Google Blogsearch

January 26, 2007

Google’s Blogsearch and Technorati are great sites for focused reading about a particular subject. Doing a Google search is entirely different from doing a search on blog search. Google’s Blogsearch and Technorati will both bring you back all posts on blogs and niche sites that have been tagged with, or contain, the keyword that you [...]

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Google Adsense Making Less Sense

January 12, 2007

Imagine blogging for a whole year, ending up with a very popular blog that has 23,457 subscribers, ranked #45 out of all blogs in the world, and earning (brace yourself) a whopping $3,350 for the entire year! Now stop imagining – this stuff is real. I noted in an earlier post, that in spite of [...]

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How To Display RSS Feeds On Your Site

December 27, 2006

If you know what a “blog” is, you probably already know what a “RSS Feed” is. One of the best (not to forget, cheapest and fastest) ways to get free content for your web site, is to display a third-party RSS Feed. Every time the feed’s content changes, content on your web site automatically changes, [...]

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