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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.

Google Waxes Philosophical, Confuses Everyone

There's been a lot of lofty rhetoric effluviating (CAUTION: made-up word) out of Mountain View lately. Vinton Cerf and Eric Schmidt seem to agree that human nature, just like on Earth, makes for rotten digital societies – which is why Larry Page is working on a brain-based algorithm to fix it.

Time To Play

On the whole, Google’s search properties are doing well – a recent analysis showed a 24% year-over-year improvement. There’s a lot of variation among those properties, however. Google Video was the clear winner, with a gain of 545%, but Froogle, Google Alerts, and Google Local all suffered losses.