Google has lost the battle for the “Gmail” trademark in Europe. A long story short: a German entrepreneur who owns Gmail.de beat Google for rights to the name.
Giersch, who has held his trademark for six years, has been fighting this battle since Google launched its email service in 2004. The German entrepreneur founded a same-day [...]

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KeyCompete is a keyword research tool that allows you to research and monitor the keywords your competitors are bidding on. I recently signed up for a 1 day trial that cost me $19, and I would have to say it was worth the small investment. I don’t know of another tool that can provide this [...]

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Compete.com has put together a nice graph of the top 20 websites/domains people in the USA spend time online. Amazingly, these top 20 domains accounted for 39% of all time spent online, according to Compete.com. Who knew “Adult Friend Finder” was that popular? A lot of the websites on the list are regular visits for [...]

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It looks like one of my favorite keyword research tools might be dead. I haven’t been able to access the Overture tool for several days, and I’m not the only one. Is Yahoo’s complete move to Panama coupled with the death of the keyword tool?
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In the not too distant future, YouTube will begin sharing revenue with users. Here is a recent video of Chad Hurley at the World Economic Forum in Davos where he talks about it. This is going to be really interesting to follow.
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I noticed this new feature on my Google personalized home page a few days go…if you click the “+” symbol it will expand and show a preview of the summary from the RSS feed. Here’s an example pic of what this blog looks like on the Google personalized home when you do that…

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Google recently released some news about Googlebombs, which basically says they have developed a new alogrithm to minimize the impact of Googlebombs. The new change seems to have taken care of the famous miserable failure search that previously returned George Bush’s White House page in the top spot, as well as a few other famous [...]

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A couple of months ago I began using Google Analytics (formerly Urchin) on one of my websites, and I must say I have been impressed. In the past I have used several different analytics providers: Omniture, WebTrends, AWStats, etc.. It is pretty hard to beat the price on Google Anaytics: free! I have used it [...]

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I have recently learned about the practice of donating Internet domain names to charity as a tax write-off. Apparently you can have your domain name appraised and receive a tax write-off for that value when you donate the domain. The problem I see with this is that the domain name appraisal process seems to vary [...]

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I’m home from Affiliate Summit, which ended up being an awesome conference for me. I met a lot of new people, got to catch up with some people I already knew, and of course learned a couple things! I went to several sessions - probably my two favorites were “Domaining and Address-Bar Driven Traffic” and [...]

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