Today In Online Marketing News – Friday May 23, 2008
Here are some of the articles that caught my attention today: Friday May 23, 2008.
- Microsoft Offers Rebates to Shoppers Using Its Search By Miguel Helft | The New York Times. “With its share of the Internet search market in steady decline and its pursuit of an alliance with Yahoo in doubt, Microsoft is taking a new approach to jump-starting its search engine: offering rebates to people who use it to find and buy some products.”
- The Sad State of U.S. Broadband By Catherine Holahan | BusinessWeek. “Although the Internet was started here, the U.S. can’t seem to catch up with other developed nations when it comes to giving citizens access to high-speed connections. For the second year running, the U.S. ranked 15th among the 30 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development in terms of broadband availability. Denmark ranked first again in the annual OECD survey, followed by a host of European and Asian nations. Indeed, while the number of Americans with access to broadband service rose 20% last year, to nearly 70 million people, the most in the OECD, that amounted to just 23 of every 100 residents. By contrast, the top five countries in the OECD ranking all sport per-capita penetration rates of better than 30%.”
- Introduction to Google Search Quality By Udi Manber | Google. “Search Quality is the name of the team responsible for the ranking of Google search results. Our job is clear: A few hundreds of millions of times a day people will ask Google questions, and within a fraction of a second Google needs to decide which among the billions of pages on the web to show them — and in what order. Lately, we have been doing other things as well. But more on that later.”

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