Rick Bruner points out Google's new blog that started up on Monday. Pyra founder-cum-Google program manager Evan Williams writes the self-referential official company digest, and appears to be doing so with at least a little vetting from other company officials....
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Avenue A named an ad sales expert run its search engine marketing division. Rob Wilk comes most recently from Overture, and will report directly to Art Muldoon, the general manager of client services in the New York City office. AdWeek...
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Ever since Google made public (by putting a metering device on its toolbar) its PageRank scores for each web page, Danny Sullivan has been shaking his head. The rankings caused search engine marketing industry convulsions, and it turns out that...
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If eBay were a country, its gross national product would be leaving Guatemala in the dust. The auction giant just announced the eleven categories in which it's doing more than $1 billion of revenue. Click for list. Internet Retailer reports....
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Office Depot was able to convert its corporate customers - 99 percent of whom did not indicate they wanted to pay online a few years ago - to online payments by first giving them what they initially wanted: online invoice...
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Reuters is adopting the Really Simple Syndication (RSS), giving a boost to the content distribution standard seen commonly in blogs. The news wire will allow sites to publish headlines and one-line story descriptions of several important categories, as well as...
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Canadians are turning to domestic ecommerce sites finally, with spending growing about 20 percent in the last quarter of 2003 relative to the year before. Canada's balky ecommerce growth has been somewhat of a mystery, especially given the opposite trend...
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Wired interviewed Earthlink's chief privacy officer about whether or not its efforts to "sue the pants off spammers" is working. The Internet service provider has teamed up with Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo in suing hundreds of alleged spammers. The Earthlink...
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The efficiency of message distribution and proven effectiveness in fundraising efforts will drive a record year for political advertising, according to all the newly-minted experts. The Associated Press wrote a wrap-up of online political developments, all of which seem to...
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Even before it went into effect, Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong dissolved her temporary retraining order against SpamCop on behalf of OptInRealBig.com. In a statement she said that the issues turned out to be more complicated than they first appeared to...
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The reversal of the seemingly inexorable decline in clickthrough rates reported by DoubleClick yesterday is probably temporary. The study reveals that most of the slight clickthrough increase for the quarter came on the back of increased rich media use, which...
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CBS's "reality" show Survivor is asking viewers to vote on the web for their favorite contestant, who will win a $1 million consolation prize. The vote rocketed the CBS website past those of fellow TV networks ABC and NBC, as...
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The Bush Administration announced a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chairman before the current one could even resign, the Washington version of the door hitting someone on the way out. Outgoing FTC Chairman Tim Muris vigorously drove the Do Not...
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