Part of the responsibility of speaking in a public forum is admitting you made a mistake. This one is especially embarrassing, but humorous. [more…]

Google launched their Google Suggest AJAX functionality today across some of their data centers. As you type in a search query, you will see suggested search terms from their database of past queries.

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Online advertising is nearly as old as the Web itself. And from the beginning advertisers have been salivating over the day that video could be easily viewed. What they didn’t fully understand is that unlike television (at least until Tivo), a commercial cannot pushed down the throat of a consumer. Why would someone chose to watch a commercial? [more…]

Claria today announced that they will be selling their AdWare division. Most of us are surprised that they have any other divisions. Claria, formally Gator, made a large splash in the early days of AdWare. Their Gator Wallet idea, which would hold all your personal financial info, was really nothing buy an excuse to download a component into your Internet Explorer browser and pop-up ads to you as you shopped around. [more…]

Once again Google has made a great tool at an even better price. Google AdWords customers have always had the ability to do keyword research within their site. But now Google has released a free tool for keyword research to the general public. [more…]

Google is invading yet another territory, the financial sector. The new site, finance.google.com, provides stock market information, and financial news stories. This industry dominated by solid names like Marketwatch and WSJ.com, and the ad heavy Forbes.com, will now have to compete with one of the biggest names on the Web. [more…]

Comment spam has been a nightmare for popular blogs. We spend at least 20 minutes per day deleting comment spam from the USWeb blog. And we know that our clients face a rising issue as well. [more…]

The parental advice site Kinderstart filled a lawsuit yesterday against Google because they feel Google has unfairly penalized the site in the Google search rankings. This is not a joke. [more…]

Tim Mayer, Director or Product Management for Yahoo Search. took the stage as a panelist at the SXSW conference in Austin, TX. and had some interesting things to say for the Web Standards and Search Engines session. [more…]

Yesterday Google agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging they overcharged their advertisers thousands of dollars in click fraud.

The total of the lawsuit, $90 million, represents less than 1% of their $11.2 billion in revenue in the past four years. This makes it look like the problem of click fraud is small as Google claims. But from being in this industry, and hearing from many of our clients and prospects, I suspect the problem is far more reaching than Google would like the world to believe. [more…]