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Archive for April, 2006

Google goes crazy and puts banner on homepage

Posted by Chris on April 29th, 2006

I usually use firefox now, but I just used IE for something and noticed this:

It reads: “Firefox with Google Toolbar: tabbed browsing, safer surfing.” and has spreadfirefox.com in the url. This doesn’t really show much about the tabbed browsing feature. It also looks suspiciously like a banner ad.
“There will be no banner ads […]

Five tricks I learned about adwords

Posted by Chris on April 24th, 2006

At Boston Pubcon - April 19th, from:
Frederick Vallaeys - SR. Product Specialist for AdWords , Google
Learned some of the following at PubCon from Mr. Vallaeys
1) CTR still matters of course - the higher the better
2) Suggests using 2-3 creatives per adgroup with 5-7 keywords
3) Landing page quailty - design and content - should be […]

Webmasters in the Sun 5 Photos

Posted by Chris on April 17th, 2006

Webmasters in the Sun 5, held in San Diego, was a blast.
Thanks to Keith, Jake, Rae (with some WITS pics at her blog), Floriana, Ted, Eric, 888 was awesome and sponsored the event along with some other great companies – and I had I great time hanging out with them. , and everyone else who […]

The Feds now Want your PayPal records

Posted by Chris on April 12th, 2006

“Federal officials have ordered PayPal, the popular online payment service, to turn over customer records as part of an investigation into tax cheats who hide money overseas.”
“Authorities also hopes the records will help identify customers whose credit card numbers were obtained in previous summons that were issued to Visa, MasterCard and American Express. Nowhere in […]

Google Now Selling Poker Items in their Google Store

Posted by Chris on April 2nd, 2006

Google Now Selling Poker Items in their Google Store
Google has added three new sin items including an odd bottle opener/keylight and two gambling items.
Google Chocolate Poker Chip
This chocolate poker chip sells for $0.75 and has a face value of $25 dollars. Not a bad deal I suppose and I will probably pick up a […]

Matt Cutts’ Excessive Demands Cuts Salaries at Google

Posted by Chris on April 1st, 2006

Google Pays Three Employees Less Than Minimum Wage
Shocking abuses at Googleplex rumored to finance burgeoning anti-spam division

Ongoing abuse discovered by LA Times
While the U.S. Minimum wage is $5.15, California has an even higher standard of $6.75 an hour, but the LA Times has revealed that Google has had three employees “volunteer” to take a drastic […]