Channel | Digital

Google reported yesterday that Q2 revenue, almost entirely from search ads, rose 58% over the same period last year to reach $3.87 billion.

No one’s saying Yahoo! has conceded the search marketing race to Google, but the second largest search engine has lately been doing all it can to leverage its current lead-horse status in another online ad channel: display ads.

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After selling various types of jewelry through sites like Amazon and Shop.com, Troy Lemaire decided to start his own Web site, putting faith into a very specific niche

Almost exactly one month after Yahoo! replaced former CEO and president Terry Semel with co-founder Jerry Yang and former chief financial officer Sue Decker, the search engine/ Web portal posted quarterly financial results that seemed to suggest why the change was necessary.

Amazon.com has tabbed Fly, a Manhattan-based advertising agency formerly known as RowenWarren, to develop interactive campaigns for its grocery and Endless.com, its shoe and handbag Web site, as well as Unbox, one if its digital categories.

(Promo) Call it "Subservient Intern." Mentos maker Perfetti Van Melle USA has put its summer intern, Trevor, at the center of an online campaign reminiscent of Burger King's landmark Subservient Chicken.

Ask.com is partnering with "Ask A Ninja" in a campaign to promote the search engine's capabilities. The Ninja character, which stars in a popular online video series, will invite viewers to go to Ask.com and search for secret Ninja words.

Google held the top spot in comScore's listing of search engine activity during June. The company's sites racked up 49.5% of all queries -- roughly 4 billion of the 8 total searches made within the U.S.

Google is being sued by an Australian competition watchdog agency for allegedly deceiving users over the question of paid links that look like organic search results.