Not sure if this is a sign of Google Checkout’s success or struggle, but rates are increasing effective May 5th. If your monthly sales are less than $3,000 you’ll now pay 2.9% + $0.30 $3,000 - $9,999.99 you’ll pay 2.5% + $0.30 $10,000 - $99,999.99 you’ll pay 2.2% + $0.30 $100...

While we’re busy discussing whether Twitter can become the next big search engine, or if Google can figure out how to tap into the “fresh” micro-content being churned out every second, we’re missing one crucial element that’s preventing both sides from achieving their g...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt used Tuesday’s appearance at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco to bluntly describe the economic climate as “pretty dire” and explain how it will affect the world’s largest search engine. “It obviously will affect the onlin...

UPDATE: Is this a re-brand of Live Search to Kumo or is Kumo just being used as a staging site? It seems that if Microsoft just wanted to test a new interface, it could do that without using the Kumo brand. Still, we’ve put in a request for an official response from Microsoft and will let you ...

I really don’t know what’s worse. A Ryanair employee getting busted for leaving an abusive comment on a blog, or the official–and equally abusive–statement from the airline Ryanair. I’ll let you read the full details, but long story short, a blogger finds a bug in Ryana...

Deep inside the confines of the Beal household, my wife and I often debate what motivates us–and others–to share so much of our private lives on Twitter. We discuss the notion of being significant with each Tweet, and often joke about those that seem to Tweet as if their very life depend...

Bloody brilliant! A new report suggests that Yahoo is head and shoulders above Google in one key area and it happens to be a product that the struggling web company won’t release to the general public! According to an email received from CMS Watch, Yahoo! Web Analytics outshines Google Analyti...

Over at Frank Thinking, contributing Pilgrim Frank Reed shares a study that reveals just why it’s so hard to get small businesses to break their local newspaper/yellow pages advertising habit. Why? Because they’re still using the darn things! While 82% of consumers turn to the search eng...

New research from Dr. Leslie Gaines-Ross and the Weber Shandwick team suggests company executives are well aware of the importance of a spotless reputation–and just how easily they can personally screw it up! read more...

New research from Dr. Leslie Gaines-Ross and the Weber Shandwick team suggests company executives are well aware of the importance of a spotless reputation–and just how easily they can personally screw it up! Of the 703 senior executives polled a whopping 100% of CEOs admit to frequently think...