Oops, Said the Algorithm. Didnt Mean To Put That There!

Contextual advertising has a ways to go yet. There is a certain coolness to technology that can read content and then instantly grab an ad to go with it, but the day remains as to when these algorithms will be able to exercise good judgment. Currently, contextual ads are the guy at the party who brought the beer and the music, but hushes the crowd…

RealNetworks Bounces Back From Last Year

RealNetworks reported its financial results for the second quarter, which ended at the end of June. These included record revenue of $82.7 million, and net income of $4.7 million.

Behavioral Analysis: Is Claria Building the Next Great Search Engine?

Claria's RelevancyRank, a search technology under development, challenges Google, Yahoo, and MSN with a comparison of where they would rank the sites that RelevancyRank (based on behavioral indicators that Claria gathers by following users around with its adware) would rank in the top ten for the phrase "cheap tickets."

Did Ask Partner With Looksmart For New Ad Service?

Since the announcement of Ask Jeeves launching their own branded search advertising service, many were surprised Ask would elect to leave Google's AdWords service seeing how financially successful the partnership was for both parties.

How Does Flickr Rank Your Interestingness?

Yahoo's photo sharing service, Flickr, added a couple of interesting features yesterday to help surfers navigate the immense number of photos uploaded onto the site. The more, um, interesting feature rates a photo's "interestingness." Other words you didn't know existed: frogery, abligurition, euneirophrenia, flocinaucinihilipiliphication, and zenzizenzizenzic.