Google Insights more addictive than crack

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Google just unveiled Insights for Search, which is like Google Trends on steroids. The world’s most popular search engine just let us loose in their search data playground. Please, join me in analyzing some of our favorite web celebs: Julia Allison vs. Kevin Rose. vs. Jimmy Wales vs. Mark Zuckerberg (worldwide, last 2 years) Mark [...]

Offline impact of online advertising

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Magid Abraham (of Comscore) in the latest Harvard Business Review: Results from 18 studies in the finance, travel, telecommunications, and retail sectors collectively show that online ads have a powerful effect on off-line sales. Running search ads tends to be more effective than using display ads, and combining both types is more effective still. full [...]

This week in Rickroll: Firefoxin, live rickrolling, mainstream press

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Update: Perez Hilton picks up that Rick Astley will be touring in the UK this year (!!) We smelled a rickroll revival 3 weeks ago… and a revival we’ve had. A roundup of the latest in rickrolling: Search trends for “rickroll” and “rick roll” circa March 3rd, 2008: vs. today, March 25th, 2008… Out of [...]

Rickroll: Back With a Vengeance

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

What was oldmeme is new again… rickroll is back (don’t click that). We’ve noticed your Rickroll Shuts Up Baby video (76k views); we’ve noticed your dance remix MP3s. The RickrollDB blacklist has seen a surge in traffic & submissions over the last month, and they are largely being spotted on sites other than YouTube, which [...]

Google Me: it’s a music video

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Teyana Taylor, “Google Me” — not particularly good but definitely further illustrates the 2-legitness of the self-google via our bredren @ FameGame blog