Click Fraud Higher than Search Engines Suggest
Fair Isaac is dipping its toe in the click fraud tracking waters, with the release of its own study into fraudulent search engine clicks.
A Grim Future for Small Behavioral Targeting Networks
With Google, MSFT and Yahoo buying Doubleclick, Aquantive and RightMedia respectively and more acquisitions coming in the near future, it seems like these giants will own the online advertising space.
Facebook’s Popularity Climbs In Canada
While writing this article, I searched for “Facebook” on the American Google News site. That’s all – just “Facebook.” Yet four of the first six results came from Canada, and this illustrates a new trend: our neighbors to the north are becoming big fans of the social networking site.
School Records Discovered Sitting On Google
It’s happened before, and now it’s happened again – the records of some schoolchildren became available to anyone and everyone using Google. The security lapse has now been resolved (sort of), but it’s possible that the records were sitting unprotected for as long as two years.
Google Video Borrowing From Metacafe
If Google Video doesn’t have the clip you’re looking for, you may be able to find it at Metacafe – through Google Video. Yes, Google’s (less popular) video-sharing site now appears to be offering search results from sources other than Google Video and YouTube.
MoveOn Blasts MySpace Over Censorship
MoveOn’s executive director Eli Pariser called MySpace a "serial censorer of user-generated content" and presented a litany of complaints about the social networking site’s practices.
Internet Video And Technology
Internet video continues to remain popular but what technology are people using to view the content? A new survey from ABI Research explores that question.
FCC Pressured To Admit It Sucks
Representative Ed Markey (D-MA) opened up a can of Congressional hearings on the Federal Communication Commission over the regulatory agency’s understanding of what, exactly, constitutes broadband and how many people in the US actually have access to it.
Rumor Mill: Google To Acquire FeedBurner
It’s just an unconfirmed rumor at this point, but Sam Sethi has “just heard from a VERY trusted source that Google is buying Feedburner.” Considering that Microsoft just spent $6 billion on aQuantive, this purchase would certainly be a good way for Google to steal back some headlines.
BBC: Flickr Censors Comments
BBC NEWS | Technology | Yahoo ‘censored’ Flickr comments More news on the recent censorship by Yahoo of Rebekka Gudleifsdóttir from the BBC.