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Digital

  • Watson Offers Hands-Free Search of the Web and Beyond

    In the search for the next big thing in search, a number of developers are poking around in contextual search, designing software applications that can look at the document on your computer screen, figure out its meaning and significance, and then go get other documents that are related to it but that you might not have known about

  • ICrossing Names Don Scales President

    Interactive marketing agency iCrossing, Scottsdale, AZ, has tapped Don Scales to serves as its president, effective April 24.

  • MSN Q1 Ad Revenue Fails to Pace Google, Yahoo!

    Microsoft committed itself almost three years ago to catching up to Google and Yahoo! in search. But the company

  • Ask Re-Tools, Re-Brands and Re-Staffs

    Last year, Ask Jeeves was so marginal to the search industry that it couldn

  • AOL Takes the Web on a Road Trip

    It seems inevitable that users will some day access and search the Web over their mobile phones. But a whole raft of technological hurdles remain to be overcome before customers will start surfing

  • Click Fraud Rates Near 14%: Study

    Click fraud levels reached 13.7%, according to a study from the Click Fraud Network, a pay-per-click fraud detection service.

  • Google Q1 Revenue Up, Click Fraud Settlement Approved

    Google Inc.’s first quarter 2006 revenue was $2.25 billion, up from first-quarter 2005 revenue of $1.26 billion. The Mountain View, CA-based online services firm’s net income jumped from $369.2 million to $592.3 million during the same period. The quarter ended March 31.

  • Find It Knows Navigates Local Mobile Search

    With all the talk about the magical things users will be able to do with their mobile phones, from watching TV to surfing the Web, developers may have lost sight of the thing most people are likely to want their handsets to do most often: help them find their way to goods and services they need when they’re out of the house.

  • It’s Good to Be the King

    You may think it goes without saying that it

  • Shopping-Engine Feed Standardization Gets Cooking

    Earlier this year SearchLine wrote about an effort among a group of online retailers, e-commerce firms and Internet shopping engines to standardize procedures for submitting data feeds of products to online shopping engines and marketing around SKUs. Here’s an update on the progress of that effort.