MSN may take the lead in portal blog innovation by being the first to release a blog search engine, but the MSN Blogbot is not due out till the second half of the year, giving the competition plenty of time...
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About two thirds of Internet users shop online, and they'll spend about $120 billion this year doing so, according to a new Pew study. Four years ago, only 36 million online users had purchased something online, far fewer than the...
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Bill Gates told a crowd of besuited ad executives that the Internet industry is in the midst of a "mini bubble," indicating the current consolidation and acquisitions seen in the search field are - to the Microsoft CEO - overvalued....
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Yahoo will spend more than a half a billion dollars on a European comparative shopping service called Kelkoo. Yahoo will pay 475 million Euros for the company, which works out to about $575 million. The purchase puts Yahoo in a...
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InfoSpace will buy online yellow pages listings company Switchboard for about $160 million in cash. That price constituted about a 30 percent premium over Switchboards pre-announcement price of about $6 per share. Investors seemed to like the deal all around,...
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The Online Publishers Association, along with comScore Networks, conducted a study that examined the Internet habits of 18-34 year olds and made a not very stunning discovery: young people have embraced the web as an integral part of their lives....
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Jeremy Lockhorn presents some real examples of how video can be made "interactive" online. Taking readers on a tour of the state of the art, he points to links with specific examples and shows how viewers can interact with the...
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Ecommerce firms are again griping about the seeming whims of the major search engine algorithms. Sites in Australia are bemoaning the loss of their once-high rankings in Google, a change wrought by an improved search listing formula. Noted one Google...
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Court TV today will introduce a new advertising metric called cost per involvement. The new metric uses Nielsen and other data sources combined with mathematical formulas to arrive at a price comparison point for consumer involvement. It's unclear exactly how...
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As if spam wasn't enough to cause you to throw your computer out the window and go buy a typewriter, a new and growing form of spam is making its way to desktops everywhere. It's called spim - spam over...
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A German court issued an order stopping Claria from publishing without permission pop-up ads on top of the site of a German car rental firm. The German division of Hertz brought Claria to a Cologne court, charging that the American...
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Imagine the shock as millions of searchers found a new look to Google's results page today. Text links replace tabs and the AdWords lose their borders. Interestingly, some publishers in the AdSense network likely gave Google the idea to drop...
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