Mobile Search Services Coming

Several search-related companies are introducing mobile-oriented search products geared to handheld users. YellowPages.com, LexisNexis and SearchGuy.com all deployed...

Newspaper Runs Blogs, Sells Ads

A Spokane, WA newspaper put together a network of reader blogs and is successfully selling advertising on them....

Knight Ridder Digital Posts Huge Gains

Newspaper publisher Knight Ridder Digital saw its revenues rocket 51 percent to $29 million versus last year's second...

Finding Inventory for Keyword Branding

In his second column concentrating on new findings that search keyword advertising has a big effect on branding,...

Ford, Mazda Look to Improve Site Search

Ford, already finding one of every eleven car customers online, is looking to improve that ratio through improving...

Tower Records Online Sales Boosted by Site Search

Tower Records increased its site sales by 50 percent by improving its site search features, adopting Mercado Software's...

Arbitron Fights Radio Cowardice for Cross-Media Measurement

Traditional media networks are balking at helping syndicated research firms improve media measurement. Arbitron noted that its Portable...

DoubleClick Disappoints under Publisher Pressure

Poor results in its ad management unit and in its Abacus catalog business undercut DoubleClick's quarterly financials. Its...

Big Brands Not Big Email Marketers

Bill McCloskey's Emerging Interest released a month's worth of email tracking data to draw a picture detailing which...