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According to MediaPost.com citing stats from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers, Internet ad revenue rose 24.1% to $7.7 billion in the second quarter of 2011. Combined with the results of the 1st Q 2011, Internet ad revenue totaled $14.9 billion in the first half of the year. “For the [...] Continue reading
There were multiple reports (Gawker, Ology) over the last few days that Google had apparently enabled some type of Gaydar to it’s searches. It actually worked pretty simply…just type in the name of a celebrity with the word ‘gay’ after and the Google Panda would offer it’s “best guess” on if that person was gay, straight, or [...] Continue reading
Controversial legal services company is rebranding but doesn’t have the domain name. Pre-Paid Legal Services is changing its name to LegalShield, but it has a big problem: it doesn’t own LegalShield.com. Just a short time after filing an intent to use trademark application for “LegalShield” the company filed a UDRP complaint for LegalShield.com. The respondent, [...] Continue reading
In July, it was announced that Google acquired G.CO to use as a url shortener for internal Google links. I just noticed that Google has begun using the G.CO url shortener for internal links on its Google Maps pages. When you enter an address on the map and click on the link button, you’re presented [...] Continue reading
Texas Department of Transportation wins domain name dispute over DontMessWithTexas.com. The Texas Department of Transportation has a message for domain name owners: Don’t Mess with Texas. The organization just won a National Arbitration Forum case over the domain name DontMessWithTexas.com. The owner of the domain name didn’t respond to the dispute. Barring any late legal [...] Continue reading
Google Analytics goes real-time. Web analytics companies already know they need to quickly adapt to survive. Remember when Google acquired Urchin and then offered its suite for free as Google Analytics? Yeah, that shook things up. Today Google announced real-time functionality in Google Analytics. This is a blow to two popular real time services: Woopra [...] Continue reading
For the six month period ending June 30Th,2011, online ad revenue hit a new all time record stopping just short of $15 billion. That’s a 23% increase over the same [...] Related posts:Microsoft’s Bold Move – To Offer Office Free Online Google Instant Predicts What Your Thinking. Whats So Special – So Does [...] Continue reading