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Digital

  • Answers.com Offers Just the Facts

    In the latest nod to the power of the Web community, Yahoo! last week launched Yahoo! Answers, a service in which seekers can pose questions that are too complex for simple search engines and get their answers from actual human beings

  • The Science (and Art) of Web Analytics

    For better or worse, the Web is perhaps the most infinitely measurable marketing medium we

  • Surveying the Search Landscape

    Search advertisers are becoming increasingly hungry for competitive intelligence. As paid search takes its place alongside more traditional marketing media, players feel the need for a comparative tool such as radio’s Arbitron or TV’s Nielsen ratings: something to indicate how well, or how poorly, your campaigns are being viewed—and how that performance stacks up to your rivals’ efforts.

  • 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

  • Attention, Shopping Searchers!

    The dot-com era has to answer for a lot of crimes against the
    English language, including making the word

  • Vivisimo and the Art of the Cluster

    In the view of Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO of search engine Vivisimo, most search engines aren

  • One Fifth of Online Buyers Drive Most of the Sales: Nielsen

    Eighteen percent of online buyers account for 46% of online spending, according to a report published yesterday by Internet audience measurement firm Nielsen//Netratings.

  • Content Rules in Contextual Advertising

    Search engine marketing (SEM) has grown into an industry poised to earn a projected $10 billion in 2006 because it does a particularly good job of delivering the right ads to the right viewers. And it can do that because it has a search term to use as a targeting tool; if you

  • When Bots Don’t Come Crawling, Try Paid Inclusion

    Next time you duck into the corner convenience store or bodega to get a pack of gum and a lottery ticket, take a look around. All that equipment, from the shelves to the security mirrors and from the pricing gun to the