YouTube Shares Ad Money
Jan 29YouTube founder Chad Hurley has confirmed that his team was working on a revenue-sharing mechanism that would “reward creativity”. The system should be available in a matter of months and is to be supported on various forms of advertising, including short clips (up to 3 seconds) shown ahead of the actual film. The offer is not, however, for all of YouTube?s 70m users: it applies only...
Mobile Phones Sales Top One Billion in 2006
Jan 27Market researcher IDC announced that mobile phone sales topped one billion for all of 2006. Handset vendors shipped a record high 294.9 million mobile phones (20% more than last year) in the last quarter resulting in a year total of 1.02 billion compared to 832.8 million wireless handsets sold in 2005. Nations in emerging market areas of Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa...
Google defuses Googlebombs
Jan 27Google has taken action against Googlebombing, the act of hundreds of Internet users linking up specific words with certain web sites in order to produce a desired (and usually comical) search result. To remedy the problem Google altered the algorithm by improving the way they analyze link structures on web sites. Google’s Matt Cutts says that the algorithm scales well and even helps...