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Search is moving from the internet to the cell phone.  In fact, some search functions, even mobile classifieds offered by newspapers like the Houston Chronicle mobile, have now gone to the cell phone.
Mobile Search Engine Preferences
Google — 60.1%
Yahoo — 36.4%
Carrier Search Engine — 21.9%
Microsoft — 10.3%
AOL — 6.7%
(Totals add up to more than 100% due [...]

It’s not just the auto industry that needs a bailout.  e-Commerce is struggling too. 
An industry that has grown accustomed to 20% gains year on year is now at 1% growth in October ‘08 versus October ‘07!
Month      Y/Y Percent Change
 
Nov-07            20%
Dec-07            18%
Jan-08            12%
Feb-08            14%
Mar-08             9%
Apr-08            15%
May-08            12%
Jun-08            11%
Jul-08             8%
Aug-08             6%
Sep-08             5%
Oct-08             1%
 
Most of the drop [...]

At Advanced Telecom Services, we are currently creating a new web site for text message advertising. As this is a new field, there’s a definite need for live online chat with prospective customers. This product by Boldchat looks like it might fill our needs.
Chat live with visitors on your web site. Increases sales and improves [...]

We think of it as something new, but the internet is really almost forty years old.
1965 — The first online system prototype is developed and the term “hypertext” is coined by Ted Nelson.
1981 — First email sent.
1985 — First domain registered.
1989 — HTTP created.
1991 — World Wide Web software released by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
1992 — [...]

by Anthony Wayne
First there was dating by telephone IVR services and 900 numbers, then it evolved to internet dating, and now to text message dating.
The Austin Statesman did an article about text message dating that featured an interview with our own BallparkBob.
Internet marketers can also find dates while working those late hours energized by Red [...]

Would you pay $2 for access to Google?
According to a study from Rubicon Consulting, 52% of internet users would pay $2 per month to use Google. 22% said they’d pay to use Yahoo, 19% would pay for YouTube, and 17% for Facebook.

Percentage of web users who visit the following categories of sites daily:

Search Engines = 62%
Social Networking = 27%
News = 27%
Banking = 19%
Sports = 13%

(Source — Rubicon Consulting)

You may or may not have heard that Google has removed the recommendation in its webmasters guidelines section to submit to directories. This started a panic as people thought that having links in directories no longer held any weight. They thought this would have a knock on effect on their SEO results. In this article [...]

Back by popular demand for those of us who work in the internet business is the John McCain video where he says that he can’t get on the internet. I wonder what the breakdown of votes will be for those who work in the internet business? That’s a statistic I’d like to see!
If the embedded [...]