Forbes.com's Staff Revolt Works, IntelliTXT Ads Canned

Forbes.com's experiment with putting keyword-based sponsored links amidst editorial on its site met its end at the hands of an outraged editorial staff, according to AdWeek. The ads converted certain words in stories into hotlinks that spawn small ads when... continue reading »

New Biz Search Engine to Bow from China

SearchEngineWatch reports that a new Chinese-owned business search engine, headed by former Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer, will launch today. The Accoona site reportedly will list more than 30 million companies and include results found both from a web crawl and... continue reading »

Etailer-Threatening Patent Suit Goes to Trial this A.M.

Internet Retailer reports that Amazon.com and several other online retailers haven't settled the patent case that threatens their ability to freely customize product suggestions based on customers' previous shopping habits. The suit, started by patent holding company Pinpoint, goes to... continue reading »

Holiday Search Marketing Doubles Conversion Rate

DoubleClick reports that search engine marketing conversion rates almost doubled over those seen last year around the Thanksgiving shopping weekend. While costs per click remained about the same, DoubleClick's Performics clients saw an 85 percent rise in click traffic and... continue reading »

AOL to Make More Cuts

CNET reports that AOL will fire another 700 employees in yet another round of layoffs in hopes of stanching further losses. The broadband and technology divisions will reportedly feel the cutbacks the hardest. The report canvasses analysts who generally seem... continue reading »

Mysteriously Anemic Canadian E-Commerce Explored

eMarketer takes a stab at figuring out why it is that Canada has been so quick to adopt the internet - even being the first country to see broadband overtake dialup access - yet show such anemic e-commerce figures. Less... continue reading »

Netflix Exploits Social Networking

In an attempt to push more movie rentals and encourage product endorsement among friends, Netflix added social network features to its website, according to ClickZ. A Netflix executive said that the firm saw social networking not so much as a... continue reading »

Report: Blogs Hotting Up on Madison Avenue

BusinessWeek reports on an apparently increased willingness of advertisers to seek audiences on blogs or networks of blogs. It says that one of the key factors is a belief that 11 percent of internet users are "inveterate blog readers."... continue reading »

Lycos's Spam Attack Network Dismantled

The well-intentioned and perhaps overly-aggressive (and quite possibly illegal) campaign by Lycos Europe to create a distributed computing network of users that would collectively execute denial of service attacks on alleged spam server sites seems to have been taken down.... continue reading »