Marketing Pilgrim

In college, Thursday was always like “practice Friday.” Don’t you miss that?

• Google isn’t the only one trying to forestall government intervention in the latest big deal: Yang Goes to Washington for the same reason, though he has yet to meet with noted Google-deal-curmudgeon Rep. Barton.
• Nobody’s perfect. Good on Compete for admitting it and for recalculating their data, finding that Yahoo Traffic Better Than First Reported. I’m sure Yahoo’s happy to be at 18.6% now.
• Hakia announced in March that they’d license their semantic search for third parties; now they’re Hakia Launching Syndication Web Services, which sounds a lot like semantic search + RSS. (Actually, it sounds like a lot of BUZZWORDS, but whatever.) Oh, THIS is what it means: Hakia Announces Semantic API. Thanks, RWW.

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