I’ve been taking a look around Larry Chase’s excellent Web Digest For Marketers.

Google recently made demographic targeting for AdWords campaigns available for its marketers, who can use the feature to narrow the types of sites that display its advertising.

Jen Mazzon today confirmed on the Google Blog rumors of Google acquiring the online word processing service Writely.com.

There are a lot of pre-compiled binaries available for Mac OS X, but sooner or later you will need to compile something from source.

Verne Kopytoff of the San Francisco Chronicle is one of the first journalists to cover news that Google has settled the class action suit on click fraud for $90m.

An excerpt of a copyrighted training video that showed up on Google Video has led American to demand the identity of the uploader via a subpoena.

In the ever-evolving world of mobile commerce, a logical area of future opportunity is payments made through mobile devices.

The paltry $420 million spent in 2005 on local search advertising was the calm before the nine-digit storm begins this year.

Chris Pirillo gets the goods on search engine spam with an interview of an anonymous “search spammer” at the New York Search Engine Strategies conference. The voice is decidedly European, possibly German – yes, it’s German.

Gartner’s vision for the next decade regarding information technology was recently presented at the CeBIT event.

There’s a lot of talk today about the Origami being a let-down.

On the heels of MSN AdCenter’s demographic profiling aspirations, Google AdWords now offers demographic site selection with gender, age, and household income as the demographic categories available. The demographic information comes from ComScore. h/t Andy

Via Digg, found this video comparing the load times of Google.com and Live.com (and making fun of them, and Brokeback Mountain).

In today’s business world proper training in human resources is imperative.

An increasing number of Internet users are showing interest in viewing television content online. One research firm believes IPTV potential “solid.” It also showed that Google needs to work on its sales pitches and that Yahoo! users are hipper.

One of the long-standing and popular voices on search engine optimization is without question, Jill Whalen.

Today at CeBIT, Microsoft made some headlines with news of a new mobile PC form factor – aka.

3:40 a.m. is an ungodly time to be answering questions fired at your through and earpiece while staring into the bright lights of a camera. Intrepid communicator that I am, though, I undertook the challenge-with only one cup of coffee in me, no less-when I answered questions this morning on CNBC’s Squawk Box.

Always the mashup fan on the look for cool new apps., check out PersonMaps.

The two charter members of Oodle’s Partner Network will use APIs to connect to Oodle’s index of classified advertising and display those search engine results.

Wow, that’s fast. There are a few teams pulling an all-nighter across the freeway from where I’m sitting right now (yeah, I’m still at the office at 1:46 a.m.) working on pushing up new code to Live.com and Richard MacManus already has a post about the changes.

This is gonna be controversial, that’s for sure. Your favorite site doesn’t provide news feeds?

Microsoft is replacing MSN Search with a new search interface, Windows Live.

Searchers in France, Italy, and the Netherlands can choose to try beta versions of the Ask.com search engine in those countries.