Mamma.com, a meta search engine firm, started offering to sites on its Mamma Media Solutions network an application that will allow those customers to offer Mamma's meta search functions on their own pages, sharing in the revenue from paid links....
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CNET, along with reporting hefty quarterly revenues, announced it is in the process of acquiring two Chinese websites, ZOL and Fengniao. The transactions will cost CNET $16 million. ZOL is a CNET-like site focusing on Northern China. Fengniao is a...
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Danny Sullivan explores some of the privacy issues surrounding Google's launch yesterday of its desktop search tool. While the product provides few new privacy risks - most have been present with other versions of search - it does create a...
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Underscore Marketing chief Tom Hespos wrote on his blog that advertisers can't avert their eyes and claim not to know the origin of all this spyware junk cluttering up (and often grinding to a halt) people's computers. He directly accuses...
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Overture announced yesterday that it launched honed versions of its targeting, budgeting and tracking features. It combined its "phrase" and "broad match" types into one matching type now called "advanced." The budgeting features caught up to Google's, with daily budgets...
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RSS feeds are sprouting ads, and readers don't seem to care. Several large site networks have introduced advertising in their feeds over the last few weeks, including Topix.net, Moreover Technologies, Feedster and Weblogs. That said, no large advertisers have seized...
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Bucking the trend to abandon paid inclusion, British search company Wotbox announced a new program that would guarantee pages made it into search indices for the price of one pound per page (about $1.50). All major search engines in the...
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Two months after Microsoft gave most new browsers a pop-up blocker, not a lot has changed. Both before and after, Nielsen/NetRatings reported that pop-ups constituted about one in fifteen online ad impressions. One pop-up purveyor told CNET that he estimated...
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An IPT study in the U.K. showed that consumers there believe email to be the second most effective medium, just behind television, and way ahead of radio, the next highest on their list. The report also found that 10 out...
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Jupiter Research reports that car dealers increase the odds of customers coming back when they add to their websites features like financing calculators and customized car configurators. According to analyst Belis Aksoy, seven out of ten people doing online research...
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Michael Gartenberg, of Jupiter Research, reports that while only about a third of computer users report wanting to record TV for later computer playback, that figure rockets up to more than half of users when they can later replay the...
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PlanetOut's on-again-off-again initial public offering finally happened yesterday, the stock starting off in the low end of its predicted range, rising from $9 per share over the course of the day to end at $10.33....
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Evite, the company that helped people plan parties, tweaked its offerings and combined them with other InterActiveCorp holdings to construct a sort of social network that allows people to recommend to one another bars, restaurants and other relevant facilities. Evite...
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SearchEnglineLowdown reported that the Google Desktop Search launched yesterday had been internally code named "Puffin." But flacks told the AP that the desktop play had been called "Fluffy Bunny" in the Silicon Valley halls of Google. It may be that...
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