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Daily Mirror editor says to forget about SEO
you're only getting to this story now?. zdnet, techcrunch, cnet, and a cast of thousands had it yesterday.
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Disqus
You raised a key point no one else has addressed: comScore sells the proprietary research and didn't release it publicly. So only a few i-bankers reviewed the data.
That led to an uninformed media frenzy that relied on a couple analyst notes.
The outcome was predictable: doomsday scenarios for Google paid search advertising, wild speculation, anonymous "insider data" and finally, an intelligent discussion of what comScore data truly indicates.
Great headline, by the way.
Kevin Heisler
Executive Editor
Search Engine Watch
pointed out that comScore hadn't talked to anyone at Google before
they put together the report.
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Disqus
Last year, they pulled the plug on arbitrage and it killed a few companies like Geosigns that ran linkfarms and splogs. I'm sure it had adverse effects on Google also, but they did it anyways.
The more transparent they are about such moves, I believe would make stories like this one non-existant.
http://www.adgooroo.com/google_gains_advertiser...