This has been out for awhile but forgot to mention it. Google has added another valuable search engine optimization (SEO) tool to their arsenal. Google Insights for Search allows you to compare key words and see how they perform against each other. You can compare:

Categories: narrow data to specific categories, like finance, health, and [...]

comScore recently released its July ‘08 data on videos viewed online. I don’t think anybody is surprised Google dominated, but I don’t think anybody would think they’d have almost 50 percent market share.
According to the figures more than 11 billion videos were viewed in July. Of that 11 billion, Google (including YouTube) accounted for almost [...]

Now I wouldn’t suggest that Google Trends is a proxy for the brand strength of a company, much less a national politician, but search trends are good for a quick snap-shot of what is going on. And this graph is telling to say the least. As you might expect Sarah Palin came out of nowhere, [...]

This is the first ad in an estimated $300 million dollar campaign from Microsoft. I guess I am dense, cause I just don’t get anything about it. Not a single thing. It is terrible on every level. I mean it couldn’t be a more night and day difference when you compare it to the long [...]

Viral ad for EA sports just released (8/26) for Tiger Woods PGA Tour ‘09. Titled Square Peg, Round Hole. Great stuff.