Daily Search Forum Recap: February 17, 2010
Google Creates New Post To Oversee Display Across YouTube And DoubleClick
Google is combining oversight for all its display advertising under one executive, as the search giant continues to build its non-search business, AdAge reports. Barry Salzman, a former DoubleClick exec who most recently was ShopWiki’s COO and, before that, CEO of digital out-of-home ad firmYCD Multimedia, will take on the role of head of media and platforms for the Americas.
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Google eyeing Wikipedia? “Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar. You’re gonna go far”. At about 4pm on Wednesday afternoon, NZ time, Wikimedia founder Jimmy Wales tweeted that Google had given the organisation a cool US$2 million, with the official release to follow on Thursday.
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Google typosquat cash pegged at $497m per year
Harvard boffins probe ‘mispelled’ domains Google may earn as much as $497m a year from typosquatters, according to a study from Harvard professor and noted Mountain View critic Ben Edelman.… Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work
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Measuring Typosquatting Perpetrators and Funders
Co-authored by Tyler Moore , at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Benjamin Edelman , at Harvard Business School. For more than a decade, aggressive website registrants have been engaged in ‘typosquatting’—the intentional registration of misspellings of popular website addresses.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 17, 2010
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
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