Michigan resident Alex Ostrovsky downloaded the one billionth song from Apple’s iTunes Music Store just past midnight Thursday. In doing so, Ostrovsky rocked his way into a lot of loot.
Net Users See 64.3 Billion January Ads
From August 2005 to January 2006, monthly sponsored link ad impressions from Yahoo and Google rose from 55.4 billion to 64.3 billion, according to the latest research from Nielsen//NetRatings.
Search Handled Five Billion December Queries
Search engines led by Google and Yahoo processed nearly 5.1 billion queries from users in December 2005, a huge jump from the 3.2 billion they delivered in December 2004.
Google Shares Slammed On Billion-Dollar Dell Deal
Google shares slipped $17 on reports that Google was thinking of paying a billion dollars to Dell to bundle its software.
Google Forecasts $6.5 Billion In ’06 Ads
In a story discussing Google’s forays into other methods of getting ads to users, Google’s top sales executive sees $6.5 billion in advertising revenue for the search advertising company in 2006.
$4.7 Billion Spent For Search Engine Placement
The Center For Media Research (CMR) reported on the study and projects even more will be spent in North American, hitting $11 billion by 2010. These totals including payments to search engines and search-related media companies, search engine marketing agencies and in-house expenditures in support of those programs. The programs they included covered search engine optimization, organic search engine optimization, and search engine market technology platforms.
Online Ad Market $26 Billion In ’06
Among the numerous lists and predictions making the pre-holiday rounds online comes another forecast of a bright and profitable market for online ads.
Looking to the Next Billion Internet Users
The internet is growing at an annualized rate of 18% and now has one billion users, says web usability guru Jakob Nielsen.
Concerns Raised With AOL’s $1 billion Google Deal
Verne Kopytoff of the San Francisco Chronicle reports that not everyone is excited about AOL’s deal with Google.
One Billion Web Users Need Better Websites
Some time this year, the number of Internet users reached one billion. Billion with a “b.” If you count to one billion at one number per second, it would take you over 31 years to finish. It has taken the Internet 36 years to count that high, says web usability expert and former Sun Microsystems engineer Dr. Jakob Nielsen. The next 10 years will bring the second billion, growing at an annual rate of 18 percent, and will include unprecedented numbers from Asia and senior citizens-and that has huge implications in e-commerce.