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DirectRevenue Slapped (Lightly) By FTC

Adware distributor DirectRevenue owes the Federal Trade Commission $1.5 million in ill-gotten profits after settling charges they used unfair and deceptive methods to download adware on consumers' computers, and made it difficult to remove. Critics of the settlement say that's only a fraction of what the company made. The settlement prohibits future downloads of DirectRevenue's adware without consumers' express consent, and requires the company to…

Google Images Regains Details, Keeps Warnings

About a month ago, Google Image Search started displaying its results a little differently; the makeover yielded a cleaner, but less informative, look. There was a low-level outcry from users, and now things are back to the way they were. That’s all good and well, and an important feature seems to have made it through the shuffle intact.

Online Consumers Can Get Satisfaction

Customer satisfaction with the e-commerce industry has improved for the second year in a row and is close to an all time high, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, released today by the University of Michigan with e-commerce partner ForeSee Results. The e-commerce industry received a score of 80.0 on ACSI’s 100-point scale, almost breaking its previous record in 2003 with a score of…

Compete.com Improvements

Compete announced today that they rolled out some enhancements to the Compete.com site. Compete is now a site I’m visiting more often to research web publishers and get a different look at data instead of just using Alexa.