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The usefulness of Google Alerts has been on my mind, since I’ve set up a number of them for clients and myself. But the results always seem random and incomplete. You ever notice that? I wondered, where does Google go to fetch these links? Are there any ways to make “Comprehensive” Google Alerts more […]

Image via WikipediaI’m jumping to gmail. Plain, vanilla, no bells and whistles gmail. As a marketer and writer, I hate giving up the my “wordsell.com” email address, but for me, the need for efficiency has finally trumped the desire for consistent branding.
My wordsell.com email was hosted on AT&T and ran on Outlook. I started […]

Here’s a question for the SOBCon08 folks (and anyone else who’d like to chime in, of course). It’s been on my mind.
Now that the Yahoo - Microsoft deal appears dead, is this good or bad for Microsoft? And considering the non-deal solidifies Google’s monopoly on search and search advertising, is the non-deal good or bad […]