“Mortified” Six Apart CEO Makes Apologies

All right.  I know there are a lot of passionate LiveJournal users out there, and I know censorship is bad.  But in this case, it was also somewhat funny.  LiveJournal claimed it had blocked access to around 500 journals on the basis that they supported pedophilia - turns out, some of them were just discussing Lolita.

Algorithm Apathy Affecting Ask Ads?

Jim Lanzone and company want to own the mindshare for the word 'algorithm' as their massive advertising campaign to promote that and Ask's brand continues.

A Google Buffet

I have been able to take some more time and mess around with Google’s Universal Search over the long holiday weekend, and I really like the direction.

Online Auto Ads Don’t Work?

The next time you deal with a car salesperson - well, have a heart.  Odds are that he (or she) has had to deal with a whole lot of people who never closed the deal.  In fact, a new report indicates that, although online marketing is causing more in-person visits to car dealers than ever before, the conversion rate (to sales) has actually dropped.