My Internet Notebook

I noticed that more people were referred to my site by Yahoo! than Google in the past few days. Was it because they put this clever float search bar on the my.yahoo.com home page?

With hundreds of millions of My Yahoo users, this could easily stole search users away from Google. Interesting fight to watch!

The LongHornblog and Engadget are all experimenting with serving Google Ads in RSS feeds. Phil Haack is already wondering whether “Ads in RSS Feeds are effective”

Viewing the Engadget feed in Internet Explorer (http://www.engadget.com/rss.xml), you will notice that there is the Google Ads Table where a TD tag contains the image ads: the image ad’s href points to “http://imageads.googleadservices.com/ pagead/ imgclick/ 1234000377041507?pos=0”
with image src=”http://imageads.googleadservices.com/ pagead/ads?output=png &url=http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000377041507/ The image source URL is completed by cuid=1234000377041507, format=480x46_aff, client=ca-pub-3546992251556849, hl=en, adsafe=high, color_bg=FFFFFF, color_border=FFFFFF, color_link=66666, color_text=333333, color_url=337788, color_line=337788, which are the usual Adsense stuff. It looks like the ad is just an autogenerated PNG image.

One of the contributors to Open Source RSS aggregator RSS Bandit is already experimenting a blocker.

Finally, when are we going to see Yahoo! come up with their RSS ads?

Q1 2005 gross revenue at Google nearly doubled to $1.26 billion from $651.6 million last year. Can you imagine that: advertisers paid $1.26 Billion as in B to have their internet ads clicked. As one money manager puts it:

“They have people all over the world clicking and paying.”

I felt like it is year 2000 all over again. Did you miss the train?

If you use Firefox and del.icio.us, then you must download this Firefox extension Foxylicious

Tip from: Jon Aquino’s Mental Garden: Foxylicious as the Start Menu of the Web

I submitted this web site to the three biggest search enginer on the web, i.e. Google, Yahoo! and MSN on the same day (4/10/2005) and was interested in a little experiment: who is the fastest to index my site.

Today I found out that the winner is, drum roll pls, Gooooogle!

The result may not be that surprising. But what’s interesting is that both Yahoo and Alexa bots have been crawling my site almost immediately after I submitted my site. But my site hasn’t registered in their database yet. On the other hand, Google bots only crawled my site once and immediately register my site. Lastly, MSN bot has not yet visited my site yet. That seems a bit too slow.

UPDATE: Yahoo! indexed my site on 04/20/2005. Still not in MSN search index yet.