Before weblogs there were chatrooms, instant messaging and forums. Dialog, interaction in real time caught netizens' fancy. Circa the mid-2000's blogging really got cranking. I'm talking about the days when Technorati, not Google was driving traffic to blogs. The times when Xiaxue's star was ascending... 
• Google-owned blog Hot Girls removed their racist picture of Michelle Obama, though it still shows up in a Google search. -WebNewser
• You can now buy books you read about in The Washington Post with their new direct link system to Amazon.com -[...]
Well, at last, after all the "Why Won't My Parakeet Eat My Diarrhea" nonsense, we're seeing a Google Trend "On Fire" item that speaks well of the readership: "charles i insulted by cromwell s sold...
Continue reading "Latest Google Trend Surprisingly Cultural" >The latest Google Bomb is apparently this awful Photoshop of Michelle Obama, which comes up first when you look for her on Google Images. Google, being devoted to free exchange of ideas (void in C...
Continue reading "Google Apologizes for Michelle Obama Image Bomb" > [...]
Other media companies are looking to follow the lead of Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp., which has been in talks with Microsoft to feature its content exclusively on its Bing search engine, thus removing links to its news stories from Google.
Do you have any idea who Denise Milani is? Now you will!
Sure, Rupert Murdoch wants people to pay for his content, but now he's definitely considering upping the ante. From the Media Decoder: "News Corporation...has engaged in early stage discussions with Microsoft about a pact to get paid from Microsoft to remove its news content" [...]
Two weeks ago, Rupert Murdoch announced that he would be taking content from his News Corp entities like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post off of Google's search engines, ostensibly because the man doesn't know jack about the' [...]
It's the start of a short week, and the promise of turkey is making it difficult for us to concentrate on today's media news. Thankfully, Jason Boog of GalleyCat and AgencySpy's Matt Van Hoven, hosts of the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu, are not [...]
Maybe you did something to invoke the wrath of the googlegod. Or maybe you're not getting the right keywords out. Or maybe your blog is getting buried beneath tons of other blogs. Relax. There is hope.By now you have heard that Sarah Palin is coming Rochester for a book signing. The details are out there if you are interested - use “the google” to find them.
My email box has been filling with notes ranging from organizing a protest or somehow expressing displeasure, to completely ignoring [...]
This morning, mediabistro.com's senior editor Donya Blaze spoke with New Yorker columnist and author of "Googled: The End of the World as we Know It," Ken Auletta for our upcoming video series Media Beat. In addition to discussing the book (Nora Ephron helped him out with the title), [...]
This morning, mediabistro.com's senior editor Donya Blaze spoke with New Yorker columnist and author of "Googled: The End of the World as we Know It," Ken Auletta for our upcoming video series Media Beat. In addition to discussing the book (Nora Ephron helped him out with the title), [...]
Earlier this week Google Maps launched a flu shot finder at [www.google.com]. Google said it has "been working with HHS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state and local health agencies to gather information on flu vaccine locations across the" [...]
One day after Rupert Murdoch's number two Chase Carey was quizzed about the mogul's plans for pay walls and Google, News Corp.'s chief digital officer Jonathan Miller said that the company would be removing its content from Google within [...]
