The World Comes To US Sites

As the number of Internet users has increased throughout the world, Americans now comprise a smaller percentage of them. That growth has led to a shift in the numbers of international versus domestic visitors to US sites.

Boring Google Earth US Election Maps

Not sure if anyone else noticed this or not but did you catch the graphics that are being used by ABC news and Good Morning America etc... to show the results of the election?

Jeremy Toeman Says Riya Marketing To Wrong Group

Interesting point on Jeremy's blog. Hey, Jeremy, you must have missed my video interview with Munjal Shah. He just came back from a press tour where he talked with tons of fashion and consumer magazine editors (he told me that he'll have tons of great PR in that world coming soon).

Drill Down, Then Out; Vertical’s Where It’s At

It's always been relevancy that drives the efficacy of search - that's a no-brainer, and the reason Google is king of general search. But because that search is general, riffraff makes its way into the results, sometimes old riffraff, which is the very foundation for the rise of vertical, or niche, search engines.

The “Anywhere Consumer” Is Here

Thanks to modern technology, a person can shop from pretty much anywhere, at any time. This person - a retailer's dream - is known as the "Anywhere Consumer."