Presidential Campaign Online Spending Sliver of Total

The 2008 Presidential elections by McCain and Obama spent $866M of the total $1B raised. How much went to online advertising?
According to ClickZ, a total of $7.97 million was spent on Web ads in ‘08 through October by the Obama campaign alone. That’s right, of the $573M Obama spent on his [...]

Review of Cuil

A competitor to Google has entered the stage. The new entrant is Cuil (pronounced COOL). As their press release states,
Cuil provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis. The search engine goes beyond today’s search techniques of link analysis and traffic ranking to analyze the context of each page [...]

Can Google Index Flash?

After years of the rather defined rule that use of Fash equates to search engine optimization death, Google has figured out how to crawl flash content. Sorta. Mostly. Not really.
How Google Crawls Flash
The technologist in me asks: how did they do this? Apparently, Google (and Yahoo) had a little [...]

How Ecommerce Sites Can Make the Most of Rising Gas Prices

Have you noticed that a lot of your friends are more likely to shop online as a way to combat $4/gallon or more gas prices? Indeed, you have spotted a significant trend. One-third (33 percent) of online US adults are more likely to shop online, rather than at a store, because [...]

SEO snake oil salesman

Trying to persuade someone of the benefits of SEM is like trying to have a “you need a website” conversation. At this point in the game, the benefits of SEM are rather clear. If the prospect doesn’t get it, point them to an article online and/or move on.
What a prospective [...]