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Google Partners with eBay for Text and Pay-Per-Call Advertising

Google Inc. and eBay Inc. today announced a multi-year agreement for Google’s text ads exclusively on eBay outside the United States. In addition, eBay and Google plan to integrate and launch pay-per-call (or click-to-call) advertising functionality using Google Talk or eBay’s Skype Web-based phone applications.
The click-to-call advertising opens up new ways for sellers, advertisers and […]

Google Allows Skipping ODP Description

In May 2006, MSN has decided to allow web publishers and webmasters to opt out of those pesky site description from Open Directory Project (ODP).
Many of us complained why Google didn’t listen. But now they do.
Google uses exactly the same meta tag as MSN to enable publishers to request not using the ODP description […]

Today’s Tidbits - 11 July 2006

Google is now officially a verb and will be listed in the Oxford Dictionary, joining Kleenex, Xerox, TiVo, FedEx and other brand names that are obiquitos and used daily.

Aaron Wall has posted an interview with Dan Kamer, a search engine cloaking software creator (Kloakit). The interview reveals cases when cloaking is necessary, among other things. […]

Business.com Listings Carry NoFollow, and Explanation

What is the value of being listed in a directory? Besides the targeted traffic from its visitors, businesses surely hope there is a boost in their link popularity, which translates into higher rankings in search engines. But what if after you pay $199 to Business.com, they decided to put a nofollow tag to the listing?
Lane […]

Today’s Tidbits - 30 June 2006

Adobe and Google team to offer the Google Toolbar to its customers as a free download. Current offerings are limited to Adobe’s Macromedia Shockwave Player, but additional Adobe’s products will follow in the future.

Yahoo! Store blog reported they are introducing a new feature that will enable store owner to create Sitemaps. Merchants should be able […]