"Compared with offline retailers, some online retailers get traffic for pennies on the dollar. Is it any wonder they treat traffic as something worthless? They simply don't value it. This is indicated by the horrifically low 2.4 percent average online conversion rate.

E-tailers are rummaging through hundreds of thousands of paid clicks for uniques, thinking nothing of lost opportunity, nor calculating their traffic's true value. The model's profitable, after all. For now."

"The gains may boost Yahoo’s revenue growth from searches to more than 20 percent in the second half of this year, instead of his previous estimate of 15 percent.

So far, Semel is making good on his promise to close the gap on search ad revenue with Google, which is on tap to post net sales of more than $12 billion this year compared with $5.47 billion at Yahoo, according to a Bloomberg survey of analysts."

"Intentional or not, this could be a serious problem just waiting to happen. From what I can tell, nothing can prevent people from uploading any image for any company they want. I'm not certain how easy this is to actually exploit, or how long the image would last if someone was successful — users can easily report inappropriate photos through the Google Maps interface. "

"The links to Google's services were detached from the search box and were moved in the top left corner. Because there's no visible connection between the links and the search box, this move allowed Google to add non-search services: Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs."