Marketing research firm Hitwise just released numbers for July discussing search engine rankings. The information from a press release on Tekrati says Google is still the top dog for search, more than double the number of searches of their closest competitor, Yahoo.

As part of it’s ongoing efforts to eliminate unsolicited Email, Microsoft announced a settlement of a suit against alleged “spam-king” Scott Richter and his email-marketing firm, OptInReallyBig LLC.

It’s great to get customers, but it’s even better to get business customers. Mike McDonald of WebProNews took in a morning SES 2005 session on Business To Business Tactics.

It’s interesting to juxtapose the formal and informal statements of Google staffers (on panels, and in the hallway) on the question of making more behavioral targeting available to advertisers …

Links are a crucial part of attaining high search rankings, but you must be very careful about to whom you link. I’m going to help you develop a simple link strategy for your website that will help you decide which sites to link to so you’re making your way up the search engine rankings and not accidentally hurling yourself backwards.

Because a large portion of our Web application user interface is done in Flash, we here at Cafe ID (http://www.cafeid.com) took special interest in Monday’s official announcement of Flash 8 by Macromedia.

Graphic images on your computer come in two different forms, raster images and vector images. Raster images are made by programs such as Photoshop and Corel Photopaint.

Note to Evan Williams: congrats on getting the funding for Odeo. For the rest of you, he’s building a podcasting tool to start with.

MSN Filter sure is getting some people upset (hi Ross Mayfield). Personally I wanted to give MSN Filter a few weeks before giving my opinion, but Ross goaded me into it.

Many small online business owners have yet to understand the sheer power that comes from building consumer confidence. They struggle with sales month after month, but still, when someone tells them their site design needs help, they get offended. “I spent a lot of time building my own site!” is the reply.

A detailed how-to on this blog informs readers on how to download pirated software from Google China. Apparently finding warez on the Chinese version is surprisingly simple, even if you can’t read Kanji.

A growing number of companies are employing blogs and podcasts as part of their communication mix.

Google, Yahoo, and Ask have a much different take on link buying than do the SEMs. Chris Richardson of WebProNews sat in on this Q&A at SES 2005.

Nope, this isn’t a story about the “Three Tenors”. Opera Software added GuruNet’s Answers.com to their browser. Opera signed a partnership with the search engine to add an exclusive search feature to their browser.

Being a site where the purveyors of the Ask Jeeves search engine offer an in-depth look at the solar system’s eighth planet.

All marketing boils down to communication whether it is traditional or not. Advertising is meant to convey to potential customers some benefit for choosing a company product or service.

The Internet rumor mill is working overtime as forums light up with speculation about Fox Interactive Media’s apparent interest in acquiring a search engine among other portals, especially after News Corp.’s $580 million purchase of Intermix Media, the owner of MySpace.com.

Your buddy at the barbecue tells you how the new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software they installed at their company has revolutionized their business.

I recently was asked by an author to remove a free content article from a client web site where we had posted it (with several others from different authors) to increase topical relevancy at a site that fit the article perfectly.

Everywhere you turn online these days you hear the word “podcast” or “podcasting.” No, it’s not some broadcasting method used by Martians, even though it might sound like it. A Podcast is just an audio file that is syndicated via an RSS feed, that you download and listen to with your computer or a portable device such as an iPod.

While you’re on a business trip, you use the hotel or conference room wireless network to check news and request an upgrade. A hacker exploits a new and un-patched operating system vulnerability to install a rootkit (a virtually undetectable infection).

The hot next-generation console from Microsoft may squeeze peripheral makers for licensing fees.