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Late last year the FTC fined Adteractive over $600,000 for deceptive advertising practices. At issue were advertisements for FreeGiftWorld.com that promised free Ipods and other hot products, but in reality required consumers to fill out offers from advertisers (many of which…

I recently read in the November/December 2007 issue of Revenue Magazine (pg. 32) that “Hitwise announced that Google accounted for 63.98 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending September 1, 2007.” Yahoo Search was second with 22.87%,…

For the past two years, I’ve put forth predictions for the SEM industry. You can judge the accuracy of the 2006 and 2007 predictions for yourself and determine whether it’s worth reading my 2008 SEM predictions. If you like them, I’ll take…

Although US search market is by far the biggest one, new and important markets are popping out all over the world. Probably as a reflection of our own staff, this magazine has been working hard to publish as much information…

The following is a transcript of a recent conversation between Google and me:

David: I just want to say one word to you – just one word.
Google: Yes sir.
David: Are you listening?
Google: Yes I am.
David: ‘Plastic.’
Google: Exactly how do you mean?
David:…