Even though Google doesn’t want to be an advertising agency, the goals they have for their clients mimic what Madison Avenue tries to accomplish each day.

eBay’s reintroduction of offsite advertising is a burr in the saddle to many e-tailers there. Though it was there once before, back in the late Nineties, Google and Yahoo’s contextual ads are so dead-on that sellers fear they are losing business because of them.

Another way that Google has changed the playing field as far as search engine optimization is through Personalized Search.

Google Earth has added a new feature that allows YouTube videos to be embedded at geographical locations. Users can now view videos of famous tourist attractions or other places they may want to visit.

Ethics aside, it’s every SEO specialist’s dream: the ability to rig Google’s search results.  Yet, in this one instance, you don’t have to worry about your conscience, because Google is encouraging users to fiddle with its Search Appliance.

A charming series of short videos entitled "How to Survive a Horror Movie" links CBS and author Seth Grahame-Smith’s recent book of the same name.

Inc. magazine has launched a social network focused on CEOs of private companies that are on the new Inc. 5000 list. The site is in beta and if your company is not on the list you can request to be asked.

In my years of retail work, I’ve encountered tough guys, wicked old ladies, and thousands of screaming children.  Yet the scariest creatures are often the mothers of those children, and Steve Ballmer may have seen a hint of that when one woman confronted him over Windows Vista.

Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster took on the challenge posed by readers of the Freakonomics blog, answering a variety of reader-submitted questions at Stephen Dubner’s urging.

$10 million could buy a lot of stuff – cars, recliners, you name it.  Or it could – and apparently did – buy one celebrity gossip site.  The $10 million came from CBS, and went to Dotspotter.

More than 70 percent of workers say that email is the most productive communication tool according to a survey from IT consulting firm Dimension Data Holdings.

Shopping has been one of the important verticals Microsoft focuses on with Live Search, and they have made some improvements to product searching there.

Microsoft and Google want some of the digital TV spectrum opened to mobile devices, but executives at the four big broadcasters complain of interference and a degraded over-the-air experience.

The whispering campaign favoring Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick has begun, as a number of antitrust observers predict FTC approval of the deal.

Over 2.7 billion addresses have been charted by researchers performing the first Internet census since 1982.

A mobile datacenter patent has been issued to Google based on its December 2003 filing, giving the company a technology similar to that of Sun’s Project Blackbox.

For the third straight day since hitting an historic $600 per share mark, Google stock rose again, this time closing at $625.39.

The world has not turned upside down; investors have merely turned towards outside.in.  The site, which is a sort of location-based blog aggregator with social networking features, raised $1.5 million.

Worldwide subscriptions of Internet, television and landline phone service from one provider are estimated to reach 34 million in 2007, according to Pyramid Research’s "From Triple-Play to Quad-Play: Strategies, Business Models and Best Practices" report.

Comscore released what it is calling the first comprehensive worldwide report on search engine market share, and Microsoft, third place in the U.S., falls to fourth on the world stage behind Chinese powerhouse search engine Baidu.com.

In fact, Google’s YouTube, if broken out from Google’s own data, would be the third most popular search engine and beat both Baidu and Microsoft, all by itself. That’s disheartening, as is this simple look at things:

European research firm Vanson Bourne was commissioned this summer to report on 50 global brands’ attitudes toward mobile marketing. More than two-thirds expected to spend up to 10% of their marketing budget on mobile messaging campaigns within two years.

The Associated Press is suing news-aggregation site Moreover and its parent company VeriSign for copyright infringement for snippeting and linking to its news. This harkens back to the early days of the Internet when news aggregators were routinely legally hassled for linking.

Whether or not you think music should be given away, sold at reasonable per-download prices, or sold at whatever price the record labels want to put on them, Radiohead’s experiment in name-your-own-price marketing may be paying off.

The European Union’s privacy group said it would take three more months to reach a decision on whether Google and other search engines are violating EU privacy laws.