Monthly Archives: May 2007

Some thoughts for Memorial Day Weekend

So, to start your Memorial Day Weekend, I thought I’d load you up with some facts. You know, some fun conversation starters for your barbecues. I do hope a lot of you will have other things to discuss, like the Red Sox are still nine and a half games ahead of the Yankees, even […]

Google invests in Sergey Brin’s wife’s company

It just keeps getting more interesting. On Tuesday Google said they have invested in a biotech company founded by Sergey Brin’s wife. According to 23andMe’s Web site, this company will create a common, standardized resource that has the potential to accelerate drug discovery and bring personalized medicine to the public. This will […]

comScore Health Search data is out

comScore released its health related search information yesterday. (GO) Here are some of the highlights:
The average monthly unique visitors online in the US is up 4% to 176 million visitors. The average monthly unique visitors looking for health information is up 12% to just over 55 million. WebMD leads the pack with NIH.org, […]

Pharma, are you watching your brand?

I recently read a great article, “What Are Search Engines Saying About Your Brand?”,
“In the offline world, companies make it a priority to influence the message people see in the media. However, in the search marketing world, very few companies make an effort to influence the message seen in search results pages. Instead, many companies […]

Google Universal Search raises the search stakes

So Google introduced “Universal Search” (GUS for short). So what it is? Instead of using separate search pages for photo, video, maps, news, scanned books, images, and of course websites, Google’s Universal Search will find links to all of those sources in a single search. This is big news as this […]

Consumers are using social computing for health info

Thanks to a client who read my last blog posting I heard about a recent Forrester report. The report stated:
“19% of all US online consumers with a medical condition use Social Computing for health information.” (source)
Well there you have it. Let’s get prepared, because Gen X (proudly my generation - just made it […]

Is pharma ready for communities?

So the big boys are jumping into communities, “Just Do It”, marketers say. However, we are still struggling in the pharma industry. I could talk ad nauseum about why we should just do it, but instead I will present a couple options moving toward a solution. I know, I know. What about […]