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  • Google, Yahoo, Ask.com Gain in January

    January brought no surprises for the top seven search engines in the U.S. Of course, if you’re like the vast majority of online searchers, no rankings have changed, though market share figures have fluctuated slightly.

  • Mobile Search Landscape Favors Downloads

    While a mobile search engine has yet to emerge as the clear leader, there do seem to be clear trends in terms of what mobile searchers are looking for. Downloads appear to be far and away the most popular search category.

  • More People File Taxes Online, But Hurdles Remain

    The Consumer Internet Barometer, produced by The Conference Board, recently surveyed 10,000 households (with about 70% responding) and found that 40% of respondents plan to file their taxes online this year, compared to 34% three years ago.

  • The Mystery of Display

    Last week, almost two weeks after word spread that Microsoft had an interest in Yahoo, MarketWatch.com published an article titled, “Microsoft’s play for display,” with the subtitle, “Buying Yahoo a major bet…

  • Affiliate Summit West 2008

    We love Affiliate Summit. And, if this were the movie “Summer School” we’d simply fill the rest of this page with a bunch of “very, very, very,…much” to reach our normal word limit. Intrepid readers shouldn’t let…

  • iLegal – Affiliate Summit – A Focus on Relationships

    I just got back from Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas, and as always, it was a phenomenal event. It was the biggest ever (by some reports over 3,000 attendees), and we had the chance to visit with a lot of old friends.

  • Adknowledge – Social Advertising Channel Doubles in January

    Adknowledge announced today that advertising inventory in its social advertising channel, Cubics.com, has doubled within the last month.

  • KFC Pushes Toasted Wraps with Online Campaign

    Online coupons and games are helping KFC get people to try its newest product, Toasted Wraps.

  • The Writer’s Strike… Out?

    Last week, amid the hubbub over Microsoft wanting to take out Yahoo while Yahoo looked for another date to the prom, the strike between members of the Screen Actors Guild and the studios officially ended with…

  • Made for Yahoo Feed Sites Under Scrutiny

    In addition to the writers strike ending, the flurry of activity surrounding the potential acquisition of Yahoo also pushed another, and in this case much more relevant to our industry than the writers strike, piece of news to the…