Consumer Product Sites Grow

Consumer comparison websites such as Froogle, BizRate, Shopping.Com and PriceGrabber.Com are beginning to attract huge numbers of users each month. In the past year, PriceGrabber has seen an 81% growth rate! These types of sites allow consumers to examine and compare...

IBM WebFountain Splash

IBM has introduced its new search tool, WebFountain to rave reviews from the IT community. WebFountain is the result of three years of research and development from engineers at Big Blue and may be the most well developed analytical search and data-mining tool to...

Say it ain’t so Lycos, Say it ain’t so…

One of the oldest search tools on the web has recently introduced a sleazy marketing campaign targeting other search engine’s clients. Lycos, owned by Madrid based TerraLycos, is using GATOR advertising to display advertisments for their free email system when...

IBM Enters the Fray

There was just too much news for our little ol’ newsletter this week. We really wanted to include this item but space was limited and the story is still in development. Here’s a hint for next week though: IBM announced last week that its enterprise search...

A New Marketing Tool That is Difficult to Ignore

If you have yet to hear of blogging then let me warn you now, you will be hearing a lot about it over the next few months. What is a blog? Here is the answer straight from the pioneers of blogging at Blogger.com: “A blog is a web page made up of usually short,...