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The Building of a Better Digg Commences
Just before the New Year, Digg Founder Kevin Rose put up his list of New Year's resolutions. Third on that list was:…
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Google Earth Gets 3D Model Of Vancouver
Remember how, in the months, weeks, and finally days before the 2008 Summer Olympics, companies were churning out all sorts of interesting little products that no one had time to use? Google is starting to gear up for the 2010 Winter Olympics much sooner with a 3D model of Vancouver.
UK Search Trends Reflect Economic Fears
Even if news programs offer almost nothing other than economic information these days, it seems that a lot of people are still seeking out more of the stuff on their own. Fresh search data from the UK reveals that people are studying some rather depressing terms.
Top Newspaper Sites Get Boost In Visitors
There was a 16 percent year-over-year increase in unique visitors to the top 10 newspaper Web sites, growing from 34.6 million unique visitors in December 2007 to 40.1 million in December 2008, according to Nielsen Online.NYTimes.com was the top online newspaper in December 2008, with 18.2 million unique visitors. USATODAY.com took the number two spot with 11.4 million and washingpost.com landed in the three spot…
Yahoo Q4 2008 Financial Results Turn Out All Right
Does Carol Bartz have the magic touch? It's either that or she inherited something less than a complete mess from Jerry Yang, anyway, because as Yahoo's new CEO presided over her first earnings report, many of the numbers weren't at all bad.
Click Fraud Reaches Record Level
Click Forensics has released its latest figures on click fraud for the fourth quarter and says it has jumped to the highest level since 2006.The overall industry average click fraud rate grew 17.1 percent for the fourth quarter of 2008. That's up from 16.0 percent in Q3 2008 and from 16.6 percent for Q4 2007.The average click fraud rate of PPC ads appearing on search…
