Each advertiser contributes less to Google than it may appear.

Is the Star Trek computer the model search engine?

Trend data is fascinating, and occasionally even useful!

I’m who, apparently.

If your customers hate you marketing can’t solve the problem.

Sometimes, less is more.

The worms.com ASCII wriggler gave me a chuckle.

Quirky and wonderful.

Wordle scans your site and creates a tag cloud.

A new twist on gift cards this season from Target.

Last week came the real GE/Google energy announcement.

Online retailers seeking the elusive Pirate demographic can use a free English-to-Pirate site translation service.

You heard it here first!

Merlin Mann at Google on managing email overload.

“But one thing that struck me is that I just found out today that the way AdSense works is we don’t actually know how much of a cut we’re getting. We just take their ads and run them on our site and they send us a check at the end of the month, and we trust them to give us a fair amount of whatever they were paid, though there’s no actual way to determine what a fair amount might be.” – FJY

A broad alliance of leading technology and power generation companies today joined forces to announce the development of “Zappy”, the first truly open and comprehensive platform for power generation devices.

Be unique in your merchandising and value proposition, not on where you put your site search box. Testing and usability labs show that conversion suffers when users can’t find site elements where they expect them to be.

Shhhh… RKG engineers crack Google’s PR server.

As seen in real life.

Here is a “funny” blog.

“Here’s Comes Another Bubble” video and copyright fracas.

Incredible paper folding video from MIT.

Off-topic post on Tom Swifties.

Four parodies heading into the weekend.

For fun, we wanted to see if we could get a page dugg for Father’s Day.