The measurement of click fraud by Click Forensics said pay per click (PPC) fraud hit 19.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2006 across search engine content networks, while the overall industry average reached 14.2 percent.

Establishing optimum inventory is the most important thing for any organization. For, optimum inventory is the level that is sufficient to meet the projected demand, but not enough to erode the projected profits.

In many different scenarios we need to check if a string can be converted into an integer e.g.

As time passes algorithms change and more is required to be remarkable, and easy link opportunities die off.

In many cases we write our ASP.NET logic around query strings in order to show the right product page or what not.

[Disclaimer: Though I work at Yahoo and know several Microsoft folks, I have absolutely no insider knowledge related to this post.]

Searching the Net to find out more about Microsoft’s oft-delayed, finally-arriving operating system, Vista, sends people where they want to go today; Vista’s creator tops the list, followed by Wikipedia.

Evidently, last year’s GoDaddy Super Bowl commercials have left quite an impression on other members of the Internet community… so much so that infamous adult search engine Booble has offered $50 million to CBS for the opportunity to run a …

Google’s Niniane Wang is currently leading a team of Googlers to develop a new product in the social application space.

Citigroup announced today that it has reached an agreement to purchase UK based Egg Banking (Egg) the largest online bank in the world. Citigroup is buying the company from Prudential PLC for $1.13 billion in cash for the bank. The deal is on track to be completed by the end of April.

For some reason, I find myself reading a fair number of VC blogs. This is mostly out of curiosity. Though I’ve never raised venture capital for a startup before, I find the industry interesting.

Logging in to Second Life earlier this morning, I noticed in the grid status information that the number of registered users has now passed the three million mark.

I was playing around with HTTP request headers and for some reason started thinking about how limited information they provide about the requesting browser.

Somewhere at the top of the Silicon Valley, Craigslist has upset the status quo of publishing; only the most dedicated websites can survive the hazardous venture into the Valley and face down the Colonel Kurtz of online classifieds.

Since the dawn of EverQuest, the godfather of Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games (MMORPGs), companies have turned a tidy profit from selling virtual items and currency that only exist within the game in exchange for real life cash.

The fastest way to anger the collective hive-mind that is the blogosphere is not to link to it. The second fastest way to anger the blogosphere is to accuse others of not linking to it. The lesson there is that not linking is the unpardonable sin, and PodTech.net’s Robert Scoble stepped forward over the weekend to throw the first stone.

Disappointment reigned through the Sydney area, as Google’s scheduled flyover for photographing the Australian city had to be altered to suit aviation requirements.

Neither Hormel, the maker of Spam, nor Monty Python’s Spamalot would appreciate the sentiment in the title.

Besides television, radio, Internet and newspapers where do you get your news? Would you consider using a game console to receive your news? That’s what Nintendo and the Associated Press are hoping.

Over the last few months I have been fortunate to beta test, or test a number of information security tools to see how well they would work in a high volume environment.

Sometimes there are parts of your website you don’t want accessed by the search engines – for any number of reasons, like sensitive private data, articles that require subscriptions – whatever.

The United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) department issued a warrant last week for a particular user’s information in connection with a series of money laundering scams.

Your CMDB budget depends on it…

Some agencies quoted in popular press stories about Yahoo’s Panama migration would have you believe the process has been a snap — and that it has been so because they were particularly adroit in their “due diligence.”