Consumers Research Products Online,Buy Offline

A new survey from Accenture finds that the majority of U.S. consumers use the Internet to research products but prefer to make their purchases offline. Consumers Research Products Online,Buy Offline

Mr. Hurley Goes To Washington

Capitol Hill got a little surreal this week as YouTube CEO and founder Chad Hurley got yanked in font of the House telecommunications subcommittee to discuss the future of video.

Gmail Users Among Cream Of The Crop

According to some new statistics, Gmail users are young, rich, and tech-savvy (or younger, richer, and savvier than users of Yahoo Mail and Hotmail, at least).  Gmail’s market share is also steadily - and quickly - rising.  Yet there’s some bad news for the Mountain View team, as well: their product is getting trounced overall.

The Google Kool Aid

Tamar linked to an interesting WebmasterWorld thread, Todays Webmaster & Their Relationship with Google, this week. The original poster makes some good points about how we’ve fallen under Google’s spell, spend too much of our energy focused on Google, think that Google’s guidelines are what define ethical seo, and give Google access to more data than we should.