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In one of my lectures at university, the lecturer said something that has all stayed with me, in regards to strategic planning. That was:
“Many business fail to plan but few business plan to fail”.
Well, I am saying that you should have a plan for when things fail – your Disaster Recovery Plan. DRP is a…
More and more, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is starting to become an important part of the marketing mix for every company – whether it is a Fortune 500 listed company right down to small retailers with a website. Search engine marketing is not just an important part of internet advertising, but a major component of the overall marketing…
The search engine marketing is always full of rumours, innuendos and speculation. Generally, I refrain from making comments on these rumours until they become substantiated.
However, I could not stop myself from not only reading this one but also commenting on it. Could Apple and Google be joining forces to provide a copy of the iTunes store from the Google…
When someone mentions “search” most people immediately think of web search. There are actually three kinds of search which are attracting attention at the moment:
Desktop Search: The ability to search a PC for the information that is required, for a variety of different file types but across a single file system.
Intranet Search: The ability to search an Intranet…
Pay Per Click Search engines FindWhat and Espotting (which merged some 18 months ago in a long winded buyout) are set to rebrand their distribution network. The company’s pay per click, pay per call and Adrevene Express (a self service contextual advertising network similar to Google Adsense) will be under the new brand of Miva Media. This is expected to…
eBay – the World’s Biggest Online Markeplace has announced that it has agreed to purchase Shopping.com, for $620million worth of shares. This is based on $21 per share, for all outstanding shares on May 31st 2005.
Quoting from the press release:
The combination of Shopping.com and eBay will create a premier online shopping experience for individuals and businesses
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is set to approve a new generic top level domain. The new domain extension is aimed at the adult entertainment web category and will be in the form of “.xxx”.
For webmasters who are promoting adult entertainment services in a responsible and legitimate way, this new extension should assist them in…