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A new report form Nielsen Online examines the reasons shoppers turn to the Internet during the holiday season.

Out of about 1,000 shoppers, 81 percent said that the ability to shop anytime was the reason they chose to shop online during the holiday season. Seventy-seven percent said that saving time was their reason to shop online, [...]

Yellowpage.com CEO Charles Stubbs made a surprise appearance at ILM:07/ SES Local today to talk about AT&T’s acquisition of call tracking provider Ingenio.
The acquisition didn’t get the mainstream spotlight for the most part; admittedly, it’s not the sexiest announcement out there. But it is big, and has gotten a nod in certain local search circles [...]

It’s tempting to outsource link development, but that may not be the best move for your site. In today’s Link Love column, “5 Best Reasons to Build Links In-House,” Justilien Gaspard shares the key advantages to in-house link development.

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Seems companies using malware are starting to get good placement in the organic SERPs (search engine result pages), according to numerous reports this week. The sites contain code that install intrusive software that creates automated popups and subvert browsers amongst other things.
Sunbelt Software CEO Alex Eckelberry told ComputerWorld he had come across “27 different domains, [...]

The ringing outcry against Facebook Beacon, which posted people’s online purchases to their friends’ News Feeds, led to Facebook altering the program.Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s aggressive move into referral advertising through the Beacon technology ran into a brick wall of user discontent. After days of complaints that spread throughout the media world, Facebook has changed [...]

“Why can’t I be number 1?” “Why am I always behind (insert site here)?”“How do they do it? Why can’t I do it?”Sounds familiar? If you find yourself in a similar situation, it’s time to change tactics. So don your spy glasses and your trench coat as we embark on a journey called “competitive analysis.”Competitive [...]

Sources say Facebook is near to announcing changes to its Beacon marketing platform after pressure from privacy advocates over the last week. MoveOn launched its campaign the Monday before Thanksgiving and has since signed up 50,000 Facebook members incensed about having their online purchases and activities outside the social network published via News Feeds.
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New features from Google Reader include a process that recommends blogs potentially of interest to the user, based on subscribed feeds and one’s Web History.All the blog spidering and indexing by Google’s Blogsearch may be paying off for users of Google Reader.
Google’s team announced a couple of updates to the feedreading service on the [...]

Today’s a fun one for retail research.
First, I received an update from Compete’s blog deconstructing the myth of Cyber Monday:

There is a significant ramp up in both Attention and Reach from the period of November 15th through the 23rd, before both begin to trail off. On Thanksgiving, nearly 30% of every U.S internet browser visited [...]