Google Finance
PaidContent reports that Google is exploring creating a financial vertical, perhaps along the lines of Yahoo! Finance. Supposedly they are in an exploratory stage and have had meetings with many data vendors.
Well, 2008 has certainly been an eventful year. Now we are almost on to 2009. Traditionally I take this time of year to reflect back on where I have been, but mostly look ahead to where I am going.
Seth Godin is usually known for his marketing advice. But that’s fundamentally what politics ends up being all about anyway, isn’t it? In assessing a debate between David Keene and Ralph Neas over judicial nominations, he determines that Keene was believeable and on message, while Neas sounded "like a Moot Court debater." (For you lawyers…
Interesting report from UPI today: White House adviser Karl Rove said in a recent conference call that Internet lobbying by young grassroots Republicans will make or break the Bush administration’s proposals to revamp the pension program, just as the technology helped get out the vote last fall during the presidential campaign.
PRSA New York’s MegaTech Day went well. The first panel included BL Ochman, Steve Rubel, Steve Lubetkin, and Emiliano DeLaurentis. They discussed blogging, podcasting, RSS, and more. This and the concluding panel with 7 technology journalists from Forbes, Fortune, Business Week, the New York Times, and others seemed to be the most popular with attendees. …
Thanks to Matt Cronin of WebLiquid for passing along an article (free registration) from Online MediaDaily. WHILE SEARCH MARKETING IS RESPONSIBLE for much of the resurgence of online advertising, politicians have been relatively slow to purchase sponsored search links. But activity on Google this week indicates that search engines might play a more significant role…
From Search Engine Watch reports on the emerging market for B2B search and features commentary by some current players in that sector. One of the top trends highlighted at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose was the growing importance of vertical search, and one of the key sessions in the vertical track was…