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Click fraud levels reached 13.7%, according to a study from the Click Fraud Network, a pay-per-click fraud detection service.

Google Inc.’s first quarter 2006 revenue was $2.25 billion, up from first-quarter 2005 revenue of $1.26 billion. The Mountain View, CA-based online services firm’s net income jumped from $369.2 million to $592.3 million during the same period. The quarter ended March 31.

With all the talk about the magical things users will be able to do with their mobile phones, from watching TV to surfing the Web, developers may have lost sight of the thing most people are likely to want their handsets to do most often: help them find their way to goods and services they…

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Earlier this year SearchLine wrote about an effort among a group of online retailers, e-commerce firms and Internet shopping engines to standardize procedures for submitting data feeds of products to online shopping engines and marketing around SKUs. Here’s an update on the progress of that effort.

Measurability has made search engine marketing. In large part, its success as an online medium was built on two factors: One, everybody searches the Internet, and more and more they’re doing it before making a purchase. But what does that mean to brand advertisers?

I'm often called on to judge marketing awards. My least favorite are those judged on creative execution alone. Anyone who has ever been surprised by which tested ad creative produced the best results (and who hasn't?) will recognize the idiocy of awards based solely on what's prettiest or most "innovative."

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When Thomas Publishing elected last August to put the plug on ThomasB2B, its business-supply directory joint venture with FindWhat (now Miva), the three top executives at the project were left holding onto their vision of what an online directory for businesses could be. That notion wasn