Google Hates Indie-Porn?

DoubleClick Dumps Abacus At A Loss

Privacy concerns rendered DoubleClick's $1.7 billion purchase of Abacus in 1999 a losing proposition; now, DoubleClick has agreed to sell its Abacus unit to Alliance Data Systems for $435 million.

Yahoo + AOL + Microsoft = Google Killer?

How do you get three giants out of quicksand? The biggest giant eats the other two and makes a boat from their bones. That seems to be Wall Street's approach to building an apt competitor to Google. Shortly after analysts dreamed of a Microsoft-owned Yahoo, they've amended their solution to include AOL.

2006 Holiday Ecommerce Traffic Up

According to new research from Hitwise average daily visits to ecommerce sites from Thanksgiving through the Thursday before Christmas were up 5.9 percent compared to 2005. The days with the single biggest increases over last year were Cyber Monday the first Monday after Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Day.

SEO and Sitemaps

If you follow search engine news you know that the major search engines are fighting tooth and nail for market share.