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Price Comparison Shopping and Reviews at 60,000 Stores (widget): Price Comparison Shopping and Reviews at 60,000 Stores is a tiny little Shopping and Price Comparison Search Widget. Enter a type of product (Ex: Routers) or an exact product [Ex: Linksys WRT54GS Router] and the Price Comparison Widget will search the U.S. BizRate.com database with an index of approximately 30...; Tags: BizRate, Product, Productivity, Routers & Switches, Sales Force Management, Network Technology, Networking, Sales; Software downloads 2007-08-01
Exposing click fraud: Exposing click fraudso whatthe spyware is giving false data - lolWaaaahhhhh!You are annoying, lower-than-life pains in the butt anyway. Please do NOT expect any sympathy from us.You can take your ads, your spyware and your Trojan/Viruses and stick them where the Sun don't shine.That felt good :)At least SOMBODY...; Tags: spyware, BizRate, click fraud, advertisement; Discussion threads 2004-07-19
BizRate: Thanksgiving online sales up 30%: Sales increased 30% on Thanksgiving day to $197 mil, compared with $151 mil a year ago. For the four-day weekend ended Sunday, BizRate.com reported that sales for the 2,000 sites it tracks totaled $820 mil, compared with $735 mil during the year-ago period. According to BizRate.com, Monday remained the busiest...; Tags: BizRate, mil; Blog posts 2003-12-03

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Top search engines in December 2007: Provider Searches Share Searches per user 1. Google 4,062,536 56.3% 37.9 2. Yahoo! 1,273,688 17.7% 22.4 3. MSN/Live 995,899 13.8% 31.7 4. AOL 339,761 4.7% 15.2 5. Ask.com 159,529 2.2% 10.0 6. My Web 70,630...; Tags: Search Engine, E-mail Providers, Search, Internet, NB; Blog posts 2008-02-15
Top US search engines in December 2007: Search engine Searches Share Searches per user 1. Google 4,062,536 56.3% 37.9 2. Yahoo! 1,273,688 17.7% 22.4 3. MSN/Live 995,899 13.8% 31.7 4. AOL 339,761 4.7% 15.2 5. Ask.com 159,529 2.2% 10.0 6. My Web...; Tags: Search Engine, Search, NB; Blog posts 2008-02-05

Microsoft researchers follow Web spam money trail: Using a homegrown tool called Fiddler, researchers at Microsoft have come up with a system to track the money that flows from big-name advertisers to search engine spammers.The methodology, created by Microsoft Research in partnership with the University of California, Davis, has already uncovered a complex scheme where a small...; Tags: Cyberthreats, Web, syndicator, advertisement, spam appearance, spam, domain, advertiser, Microsoft Corp.; Blog posts 2007-03-19
Microsoft eyes ads as consumers close wallets: Microsoft eyes ads as consumers close walletsDisplay Ads?Very funny, the good ole boys up in Redmond just don't get it. Display and video ads just piss people off....no thanks I will stick with OSS software and google, no ads, no cost and better applications.Software companies have addedno new productivity features...; Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Corp., adware, OEM, MS Adware, advertisement, software, Google Inc., Microsoft Windows, PC; Discussion threads 2005-11-16
MegaFeeder (exe): MegaFeeder is software to submit your products to Froogle and multiple other shopping search engines simultaneously. Enter or import your products. Then maintain and FTP them easily to Froogle, BizRate, Shopping.com, Nextag, PriceGrabber, MSN Shopping, Shopzilla, MySimon, Become.com, and Yahoo Shopping. Version 2.0.9 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug...; Tags: Froogle, MegaFeeder, Search; Software downloads 2005-10-21
I checked consumer complaint sites for Vonage posts; guess what I found: I spent part of this weekend on some consumer-complaint Web sites, tracking incident reports of "converged home" customer service issues.Although my reason for doing this involved a broader scope of technologies than just IP telephony, I'd like to share some of the VoIP-related complaints I managed to dig up.First, tho,...; Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp.; Blog posts 2005-04-24
JohnKerry.com not quite finished yet: JohnKerry.com not quite finished yetHit Bottom, Keep DiggingThe internet....a bigger shovelInterestingThis is interesting in it's potential to give us a more informed look into a reprentative's character and agenda. If a politician that I needed to vote on maintained a blog, I would certainly review it frequently to see...; Tags: John Kerry, Rumsfield, duck; Discussion threads 2005-01-20
Top shopping sites on Black Friday: eBay, Amazon, WalMart, BestBuy: HitWise published the report on top 10 sites for Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping. Top 15 Shopping and Classifieds Web Sites Ranked By Visits for Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday 2003 and 2004 Thanksgiving Day traffic, 2004 vs. 2003 Black Friday traffic, 2004 vs. 2003 1. eBay + 6.72% + 9.84% 2. Amazon.com + 0.57% - 6.64%...; Tags: Black Friday, Thanksgiving Day, Black; Blog posts 2004-12-18
Top shopping sites on Black Friday: eBay, Amazon, WalMart, BestBuy: HitWise published the report on top 10 sites for Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping. Top 15 Shopping and Classifieds Web Sites Ranked By Visits for Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday 2003 and 2004 Thanksgiving Day traffic, 2004 vs. 2003 Black Friday traffic, 2004 vs. 2003 1. eBay + 6.72% + 9.84% 2. Amazon.com + 0.57% - 6.64%...; Tags: Black Friday, Thanksgiving Day, Black; Blog posts 2004-12-05
98% of online retailers expect growth during holiday season: An estimated 98% of retailers expect e-commerce growth this holiday season, according to the 2004 Shop.org/BizRate.com Online Holiday Mood Study. The survey also showed 32% of consumers aim to conduct more of their holiday shopping online this year. BizRate.com polled 1,722 online buyers and more than 100 online retailers. 72%...; Tags: retail company; Blog posts 2004-10-12
More than 25% of Web searches are local: The Kelsey Group and BizRate.com find 25.1% of commercial searches conducted online in the US are for local merchants. In fact, 44% of online buyers are conducting more local commercial searches this year compared to last. Prior to the survey conducted with BizRate, Kelsey had estimated roughly 10% of all...; Tags: commercial search; Blog posts 2004-02-17
62% of online purchases in Q4 were made by women: Chuck Davis, CEO of BizRate.com, a comparison shopping site that also tracks sales at 2,000 e-commerce sites, believes this past holiday season was a breakthrough for some retailers thanks to a surge in female shoppers. He estimated that 62% of the online purchases in Q4 were made by women, up...; Tags: women; Blog posts 2004-02-04
Online holiday sales were up 22% in Q4 2003: Online shopping search engine BizRate reports that online retail sales in the US totaled $55.93 billion in 2003, with holiday sales in particular reaching $8.59 billion. BizRate defines the holiday season as the period from 25 November to 25 December, noting that Q4 online retail sales in 2003 hit $18.38...; Tags: Q4 2003, sales; Blog posts 2004-01-15
Online sales statistics and forecasts: compilation: Forrester Research estimated that online sales from Thanksgiving weekend to Christmas will increase 42% over a year ago to $12.2 bil. The results include travel and auction sites. Jupiter Research, a division of Jupitermedia Corp., projects that online sales will be up 21% to $17 bil for the November and...; Tags: sales, bil; Blog posts 2003-12-03
Nielsen: Comparison shopping is popular: Nielsen//NetRatings reports that comparison shopping sites have grown in popularity over the past year, with over 21 million US Internet users visiting a comparison shopping site in August 2003. Traffic to PriceGrabber grew by 81% in August 2003 over August 2002 and traffic to NexTag rose by 74% over the...; Tags: Nielsen; Blog posts 2003-10-15