In the latest ad campaign for their new Ask3D search engine, Ask.com have employed the services of Ask A Ninja.
From now until September the Ask A Ninja video blog will end with the ninja prompting viewers to use Ask.com to search for bonus content.
“This episode was brought to you by Ask.com,” screeches the ninja [...]
There is an interesting thread over at the Webmaster World forums containing a comprehensive, but not quite complete, list of Google’s acquisitions over the years, as well as links to press releases and discussion for each.
The timeline starts in February of 2001 when Google acquired a Usenet discussion service and various other assets from [...]
Like Alluc.org and its ilk, Peekvid is/was a video service which deep linked to TV shows and movies hosted on free video streaming sites like YouTube and DailyMotion.
Peekvid rose in popularity very quickly, catapulting into the Alexa top 500 in under 2 months, and soon after started getting some widespread publicity, most notably in [...]
Google has previously said that the only way to turn off personalized search results was by logging out. Well it turns out that’s not the case.
According to Matt Cutts, all you have to do to bypass personalized results is add “&pws=0″ to the end of a search string.
For example, assuming you are logged in, [...]
Stephen Fry is a British comedian who just happens to be insanely intelligent and creative. As well as being an actor and director, he has also been known to write the odd novel.
Most of you should be familiar with his film and TV work, but you may not know how big a technophile he [...]
Common Craft have created a follow-up to their wildly popular video on RSS feeds. This time around they explain what a wiki is.
As flawed as it is as a metric, many advertising programs still place significant weight on Alexa rank. Naturally if you are part of any of these programs you will want to improve your rank to maximize your earnings. Or if you’re like me you do it for the challenge, and the pleasure of [...]
Yuvi has written a brilliant post dissecting Engadget’s statistics. He does a great job of cataloguing the amazing growth Engadget has seen over the years.
One piece of information in particular that caught my eye was, in their first three months of existence Engadget only recieved 25 comments. They presently average 526 comments a day.
If [...]
Digg can be a strange entity at times. In the latest bit of drama, the powers that be seem to be cracking down on something most Digg users are guilty of: Blind Digging/burying.
The following text is from an email received by a banned Digg user, as reported by SeoPedia.
Your account was banned for the [...]
Probably the most interesting thing I’ve heard about Truemors is that it’s built on Wordpress.
It’s easy to see how the scalability and ease of modification that exists with Wordpress would attract such a high profile startup.
After poking around a bit I’ve noticed they are using some modified plugins as well. Notably WP-PostRatings (for voting) [...]
