U.S. search marketing spend showed healthy growth in the third quarter of 2008, up almost 27 percent compared with the third quarter of 2007 according to a new study from SearchIgnite.Spend from existing search marketing advertisers is up year-over-year in
Google and Yahoo! are in the middle of trying to convince the federal government (namely the Justice Department) that their search advertising deal is not an antitrust issue. This has been going on for months as they've tried to convince
Google will announce its third quarter financial results on Thursday, and in the meantime, the company seems to be looking for revenue under every rock... and YouTube may be the biggest rock of all.Searches for all sorts of terms on
Google is reportedly blocking use of it's Chrome browser (among other applications like Google Talk and Gmail Notifier) in some countries with which the United States has economic sanctions and export controls with. "We are unable to permit the download
Two occupations that for sure won't be experiencing unemployment troubles during the financial crisis: politician and lawyer. Politicians will be busy pointing fingers and looking clueless while lawyers will be bracing for a boon in litigation stemming from the collapse
Brightcove has introduced its newest version of its online video platform, Brightcove 3, which has been in beta testing with customers since June.read more
Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels and NBC are working on a Web-video site dedicated to the iconic sketch show. The site would allow fans to download individual sketches, clips, and even dress rehearsal skits that never aired. read more
Searching online is better than reading books for increasing the brainpower of middle-aged and older adults, new research indicates.A University of California Los Angles team of scientists found searching on the Internet stimulates parts of the brain that control decision-making
Yahoo has made a great deal of money thanks to the fact that marketers believe ads can influence consumers' behavior. Now, with the launch of a new ad campaign, the search company seems to be hoping that the same principle
Possibly rhetoric serving two purposes: an endorsement of smart fiscal management and management of Wall St. analyst expectations. Google's VP of Sales, Tim Armstrong made a seemingly off-the-cuff remark about closely watching the economy while "making sure our expenses and
The hits just keep on coming for Sarah Palin. Just as word comes down that more investigations are on the Alaska horizon, an Anchorage judge orders her to hang on to her Yahoo account and emails used for state business.
For the first time, the Internet has surpassed brick-and-mortar stores as the preferred way for multi-channel shoppers to buy holiday gifts, according to a new survey by the e-tailing group.Nearly half (49%) of those surveyed said they plan on doing
Yesterday was kind to investors, and given the remarkable nature of the stock market's rise, looked like the possible end of a bad era. Unfortunately, things headed south again today, and the big three names in search fared even worse
After a slew of political ads from the McCain-Palin campaign were taken down from YouTube because of copyright holder DMCA complaints, the campaign sent a letter to YouTube (PDF) urging the company to be less immediate with its compliance with
A group of libraries that are participating in the Google Books Library Project want to make sure that their work lives on in case Google doesn't. They're forming a backup database of digitized books in case Google should go out
Today, Joost launched a new flash-based version of its popular (but not popular enough) online video service, which will allow users to use it without having to download an application. They announced over a month ago that they would be
Many people will do anything do get on Google's first result page. That's why some webmasters regularly come up with new spam methods to get on Google's first result page. Here are two new methods that people use to get
Even though there is much debate raging over the impact of human activities on our environment, a diverse group of industry leaders, government agencies, environmental groups and others do agree on one thing -- that energy efficiency is the most
