Digital
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Digital
Cookies and the Deletion Dilemma
A March report from JupiterResearch has triggered something of a tumult in the industries that rely on Web metrics with its findings that one of the key tools for measuring Web traffic may be much less reliable than previously thought.
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American Greetings’ House of E-Cards
The Internet has done a lot to change both Americans’ buying habits and the way we relate to each other: e-mail rather than letters or phone calls, sending gifts online rather than using the mails, and so on. American Greetings Interactive, the online subsidiary of Cleveland-based card maker American Greetings, has built its business on the prospect that those two trends will intersect.
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Search Begins Early, Brands Come Late
When it comes to search engine marketing, it’s not all about the brand. In fact, according to a new DoubleClick/comScore study, it’s only one-quarter to one-fifth about the brand.
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Microsoft Takes Aim at Pay-Per-Click
Google and Yahoo were put on notice last week that the paid advertising search is set to become a three-horse race. Microsoft hosted a meeting for advertisers at its Redmond, WA, headquarters to unveil its own proprietary platform for linking pay-per-click ads to search results and other Web pages. And although the launch announcement made all the right nods to peaceful coexistence and the importance of MSN
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SEM Beefs Up Online Sales for Omaha Steaks
You might not think of a beef retailer as a hotbed of advanced technological thought. But Nebraska-based Omaha Steaks can lay claim to being at the forefront of a number of trends in both marketing and technology. As the Table Supply Meat Company, they began shipping their corn-fed beef to the nation’s restaurants by train in 1917. When freezer technology reached the required level of development following World War Two, the company—now Omaha Steaks International—switched from the rails to the mails and started marketing its products directly to home consumers.
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New Omniture Tool Offers Bid Management with a View
Web analytics provider Omniture announced in January that it will launch the second tool in its eight-year existence: a new hosted bid management service called Search Engine Manager. The new offering, which was made available to selected beta customers in January and will be generally available this month, is designed to interoperate with SiteCatalyst, the analysis platform from Omniture that operates on some of the largest, busiest Web sites on the Internet.
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Gunning for Google
Microsoft is gunning for Google and Yahoo! Unhappy that its MSN Search is only the third most popular search engine, Microsoft has feverishly been working
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A Question of Timing for Answers.com.
Back when the Web was new and finding information on the Internet was still an art, the mantra had it that
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Everything Search Needs to Know About Blogs—For Now
If blogging had gone to high school, it would now be looking forward eagerly to the next reunion. It’s been quite a year in the blogosphere.