AOL is again rearranging its senior management chairs, this time shifting back to an emphasis on online advertising. The company will be divided into four pieces: paid membership, ad sales (including free content and programming), premium services and a European...
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Business-to-business search engine Business.com won a $10 million round of venture financing. The company said it would use the funds to accelerate product development and boost its sales and marketing efforts....
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A Ciao study found that seven out of eight European and American research firms said they expected to increase their use of the internet for research collection. About three quarters said they used it for satisfaction studies. About two thirds...
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Hitwise reports that new search engines and meta search engines in the news may be getting much more attention from the press than they are from users. The sites (Vivisimo, Clusty, AlltheWeb, A9 and Snap) collectively amounted to only about...
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Information Resources Inc. (IRI) licensed digital video recorder firm Tivo's audience measurement data and plans to incorporate it into its BehaviorScan software to measure ad effectiveness. Tivo already has an agreement with IRI competitor Nielsen Media Research. Forrester predicts that...
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Online retail sales continued their upward swing for the week ending October 24, according to comScore, rising 32 percent over the equivalent week last year to $1.3 billion. This compares to general retail sales rising only eight percent over roughly...
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eMarketer reports that online display advertising, including sponsorships, banner advertising and rich media placements, will rise by 10 percent in 2004 and another 21 percent in 2005. The figures exclude search engine advertising. These non-search revenues will amount to $3.3...
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Consumers Union, the folks who publish Consumer Reports, tested out the disclosure policies of many major search engines and meta search engines. The findings noted improvement over last year, but was particularly harsh on the meta search engines, which the...
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Fathom Online reports that the average click costs about 14 percent more than it did last month, rising in price to $0.19. But, as usual, the devil is in the details, with some types of keywords going up a great...
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Internet sales in the U.K. have grown quickly and are projected to reach about one third of consumer spending by 2010. The move to online is having a price cutting effect on the costs British punters pay from everything from...
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Two out of five Americans say they visit online community sites, according to an ACNielsen study for eBay. In an interesting comment a Nielsen executive noted that personal interests are beginning to supercede proximity in defining which communities people join....
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Pheedo, a blog and content syndication firm launched a tool for publishers that will insert into their syndicated feeds either their own paid ads or ads from the Kanoodle network. The SimpleAd Feed Management and Server reports adviews, clicks, audience...
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Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker told a conference that Microsoft's impending search engine release didn't pose much of a threat to existing search players. "This is a more competitive market for Microsoft to have an impact on than they've encountered...
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