
As a MAS Facebook fan, I was notified of their new marketing campaign, which aims to make customers think about the value they’re getting when flying with Malaysia Airlines. Judging from the response on the Facebook page, it looks like the campaign (sorta) backfired - a case of customers not always thinking at the same frequency as the marketers.
Here’s an interesting compilation that shows Google Facts and Figures in a single file, from historical timeline to search statistics and business data. The numbers were compiled by Pingdom, which provides website uptime and performance services, based on information from Google, Comscore, Wikipedia and Google’s SEC filings, amongst others. Image available after the jump.

Twitter have announced that they’ll be rolling out their own URL shortener this summer. So instead of the common bit.ly, you’re going to see your links wrapped with a t.co URL like http://t.co/DRo0trj for display on SMSes and maybe a descriptive anchortext like amazon.com/Delivering for web users.
Did you know that a website that ranks #1 on Google receives more traffic than the websites on positions #2 to #4 combined? Chitika, an advertising network that I used to use back in 2006, recently did a study on the effect of Google rankings on organic traffic, which re-affirms past findings about heat maps, etc.