Marketing News Roundup, January 26

Monday, January 26th, 2009 by Jordan McCollum

Six short months ago, I was sitting in a hospital bed. Glad not to be there now!

Time for the periodic rumor about eBay selling Skype!
Great, now that we’ve got that out of the way, on to the Google news! Yes, the war against spam is a serious affair. Google chronicles the year in spam.
Google’s been closing projects left and right. Yet Knol has survived Google’s orphan-project killing spree so far.
Those copyrighted works in Google Book Search? Turns out there are few free books in the Google Library. Surprise, surprise.
Google print ads were another recent casualty, but it’s still hard at work with radio ads.

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Shirley Says:

January 27th, 2009 at 4:21 am

Well, thanks for the Google Enterprise Blog link… yet another Google blog that I hadn’t found. (They seriously have dozens…) … You know, it looks like that war with spam is an endless battle. All ‘fixes’ are temporary as spammers learn to readjust.

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Marcus Says:

January 27th, 2009 at 9:44 am

Thinks for this week’s review. I found the 5 posts very informative.
Dan London Says:

January 27th, 2009 at 9:57 am

Google Book Search generates a significant amount of traffic, but few purchases.

I have seen the pages viewed jump over the past couple of years as well.

Dan London’s last blog post..Google Print Signals End for Printed Newspapers

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