Though the return on investment garnered from e-mail marketing operations is still healthy, there has been a downward trend in recent years

For those who are unfamiliar with SearchMash, it is Google’s small, relatively unknown alternative search engine.

WENDY’S: is out with new Kids’ Meal premiums offering one of five “The Legend of Spyro: the Eternal Night” toys and a coupon with each meal. Toys are based on the new video game by Vivendi Games.

Only two-thirds of Americans know what a cranberry bog is, according to Ocean Spray research. Equally few know how cranberries are harvested. And heaven knows how many think the berries grow naturally in that ridged, tin-can shape.

Lions Gate Entertainment has modified a Web site related to the popular Bratz dolls after violations were discovered of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.

Google topped the list of search providers in the U.S. during the month of September, once again dominating the field.

Recent figures released by comScore’s qSearch 2.0 service shed some light on the global state of the search realm. It should not be a surprise that Google is faring quite well in areas outside of the states.

During a lull, on my Monday afternoon at work, I decided to check out the latest goodies posted on YouTube by NBC. To my surprise, NBC’s YouTube channel was nowhere to be found.

Commtouch, a company that “is dedicated to protecting the integrity of the world’s most widespread form of communication, e-mail,” released a report last week that indicates that spam reached a new record in the third quarter of this year.

NEW YORK – Azoogle.com, Inc. (www.AzoogleAds.com), the New York-based online marketing solutions provider, officially announced that Blockbuster, Inc. named AzoogleAds as its Search Engine Marketing “Agency of Record.” The account is managed under Bazaar Advertising, a division of AzoogleAds.