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Archive for September, 2007

So Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith is about to testify before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust regarding Google’s merger with Doubleclick.

Amazon Caught Cloaking

Posted by Nadir on September 25th, 2007

I love playing with the User Agent Switcher plugin for Firefox. I just discovered that Amazon was cloaking its affiliate links thanks to that tool.

Mobile Web Community Still Angry At Vodafone

Posted by Nadir on September 24th, 2007

Luca Passani, the man behind WURFL, came up with a long rant (entitled “Vodafone UK is abusing its position) about Vodafone regarding their transcoding solution used in the UK(powered by Novarra), which reformats ALL sites visited by their users, and therefore masks the User-Agent. This is causing issues for mobile sites that rely on user […]

DMOZ Is A Bad Directory

Posted by Nadir on September 24th, 2007

Yeah that’s right, look: it doesn’t even rank for “dmoz“. Rand, hurry up and add DMOZ to your list of bad directories.

AdMob vs. Adsense

Posted by Nadir on September 21st, 2007

Russell Beattie recently dropped AdMob to try Adsense Mobile and he’s sharing a few figures with us:

Google Officially Launches Adsense For Mobile

Posted by Nadir on September 18th, 2007

We’ve been waiting for it, and it’s finally here. Google just announced that Adsense will be availalable for Mobile. Mobile sites owners will now have the possibility to display Adsense ads and will be paid per click.

The New York Times announced that they will put an end to TimeSelect, their premium access, in order to grant free access to all visitors.

Casino.com Launches New Design

Posted by Nadir on September 12th, 2007

Anyone can rank for highly competitive keywords. For that, you just need to have an old domain name based on your most important keyword and let it gain links naturally throughout time.