Yahoo!’s updated Yahoo! Toolbar includes improvements for both IE and Firefox users. For users of IE 5 or 6, tabbed browsing capability has been added to appease users until IE 7 is released. The Toolbar for Firefox users…

Yahoo! and AOL’s plan for teaming with Goodmail to offer a certified e-mail service has not been the most well-received news of the year. Nonprofit groups and small businesses in particular have voiced their disdain for these…

Late last week, the Web Analytics Association (WAA) released a “statement of principles” in hopes of clearly differentiating spyware and cookies that are used by Web analytics applications. Though the difference between the two is…

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application filed by three of Google’s employees back in September of 2004. Google engineers Wesley Chan, Shioupyn Shen, and Georges Harik are trying to get a patent on…

Google finally has an answer to Yahoo and MSN’s financial sites in its new beta version of Google Finance. It takes advantage of Google’s long-reaching access to resources such as news and blogs, and offers unique features that…

Up until now, Google’s one obvious weakness was the absence of a strong social network in their arsenal. Though they do have Orkut, a community site that is invite-only, it has done poorly in any country not named Brazil. However…

On March 16, Ad Pepper Media acquired contextual targeting technology provider Crystal Reference Systems for cash and stock worth up to $3.5 million.

Mom never taught us this and our teachers certainly didn’t, but sometimes it’s good to have a negative attitude, at least in paid search. With apologies to the memory of the great singer Bing Crosby I’ll try to explain a little something…

Listen to me, okay? What I’m going to tell you is very, very important: being top banana in search doesn’t mean anything. Don’t click away, I’m serious, you’ve got to believe me. Quick, run a check on Excite.com – you must, no one else…

Persistent Screamers become comic book creations in the newest addition to the Confidential, DM Pimping. The Web Surfing Sinners get brought to animated life in this weekly cartoon for the online media masses. Click below to get flashed by the prettiest peons and ugliest underbelly of affiliate life.