(Lack Of) Growth In Online Job Ads Ominous

More job ads were posted online this February than last, and if the stats stopped there, we'd say they made for good news.  The amount of growth only equaled three percent, however, which isn't at all encouraging.

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Google Sacrifices Clicks To Increase Advertiser ROI

Google investors are still at the table eating their losses after comScore's report that paid click revenues were flat in the month of January. Impending recession was the chief suspect among speculators, but nobody finds any real support for that. More astute observers noticed that revenue flattened very soon after webmasters began reporting on decreases in AdSense earnings.

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Court Orders French Web Site To Stop Rating Teachers

A Web site in France that allowed students to anonymously rate and name their teachers has been ordered by a court to no longer allow the practice.Teachers unions with the backing of the education ministry took the site to court, saying the personal comments were a breach of privacy and an "incitement to public disorder." The site note2be.com was created in January by French entrepreneurs,…

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AOL’s Sitefest: Company To Launch 12 In Six Months

If they're evenly spaced, a launch will occur every 15 or so days.  If they're not, well, there's no telling.  But regardless of the specifics, Bill Wilson, AOL's executive vice president of programming, has promised that his company will launch 12 new sites in the next six months.

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IDG TechNetwork Expands

There are millions of bloggers out there, so as a portion of the whole, 100 individuals don't make for too impressive a group.  Relatively few bloggers are relevant to the IDG TechNetwork, however, and sealing deals with 100 of them makes for a decent start.

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