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Read The Wall Street Journal For Free

February 9, 2008 by Danny Sullivan

Reading Google News today, I noticed a Wall Street Journal article about the Microsoft-Yahoo deal listed. I’d just seen that article earlier on Techmeme, when on my work computer, where I read it after having to log-in to the WSJ using my paid subscription. So imagine my surprise when going back to it on a […]

Filed Under: Internet

Grokking Facebook: AOL 2.0

August 10, 2007 by Danny Sullivan

So as I go through the applications, a light bulb (compact fluorescent) finally kicks in about Facebook. It’s AOL. Shit — it’s AOL. How on earth did all these people wind up back in AOL only a year after AOL gave up on the walled garden? Maybe they’re too young. Maybe they don’t remember. I […]

Filed Under: Facebook, Internet

Access Provider Disk Report

September 10, 1996 by Danny Sullivan

The Access Provider Disk Report was a site run by Danny Sullivan from August 1995 through April 1996 that reported on the disks that online access providers sent to him. What? See, kids, back in the old web days, internet providers sent software disks to build their subscriber base. The disks let you access the “walled […]

Filed Under: Internet, Uncategorized

Multimedia on the Web

April 19, 1996 by Danny Sullivan

Everyone wants a web site that is as active and dynamic as television or a CD-ROM program that plays in your computer. Buttons should visually and audibly click; visitors should be greeted with music; dazzling images should appear and disappear on the screen. Unfortunately, the web is not as dynamic as television or a CD-ROM-at […]

Filed Under: Internet

Meaningful Statistics

April 19, 1996 by Danny Sullivan

Measuring a web site’s performance against other web sites can be tricky because the number of “hits” a web site takes is often used as a benchmark. Unfortunately, not everyone means the same thing when they use the word hit. What’s A Hit? Technically, any information requested from a web site, such as web pages, […]

Filed Under: Internet, Marketing

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About Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan is a former analyst and journalist who works for Google to help educate the public about search, to explore and explain issues that may arise with search, and take feedback from the public to help promote solutions.

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