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I recently had an email chat with Alden DoRosario from Chitika about the recent rapid growth of their ad network. They have been aggressively signing up bloggers and other independent publishers, and are now getting over 2 billion monthly impressions, with their behaviorally targeted Premium ads getting hundreds of millions of monthly search driven impressions, putting their search distribution network on par with Ask.com.

Hi all, It's been a month since we've rolled out the Recommendation Engine, and we've found that you're Digging more than ever. Now that we have thirty days under our belt, we wanted to share out some stats and give you a heads up on some of the improvements we are working on to make the Recommendation Engine even better. Some statistics: - Digging activity is up significantly: the total number of Diggs increased 40% after launch.

July is supposed to be about barbecues, vacations, and leisure. Instead, high gas prices meant people were stuck at home (if they weren't foreclosed, that is), focusing on saving money, dark knights, and celebrity babies. Here are?a?few items?that blew through Search this month. Tossing Oil and Money into the Wind So for an 80-year-old guy, oilman T. Boone Pickens 's windy talk about energy resources moved?quickly (+67,360%) up the Search charts.

Today, our teammates across the way rolled out the newest version of the social bookmarking site Delicious (formerly known as del.icio.us), which offers enhanced performance and search capabilities along with a brand new user interface. The Delicious team has detailed the changes on their blog , but here's a quick look at what's new: Improved Performance - With a new more scalable infrastructure,

Casual games saw a large-scale shift from a paid or subscription-based model to ad-supported model over the past few years. It's influenced developers and publishers to change gears away from a try-before-you-buy strategy. Results have paid off for many casual game developers: advertising has brought in more revenue than from online consumer purchases of games. Even in-game advertising networks such as Double Fusion are getting casual,

The Telegraph writes: <> If there's ever going to be a movie made about Google, please,

Aaron Wall of SEOBook reports that Google is experimenting with related search queries shown below snippets on result pages. I can't reproduce this as it's probably one of Google's experiments, but Aaron searched for link building and below a result from searchenginewatch.com, the suggestion "Related: link building software" was showing. Below a result from seobook.com, the queries "get more links", "link building 101",

Yahoo is launching the new version of Delicious.com (del.icio.us) today and with or without the dots, the company seems to be moving on with its social bookmarking platform, even without Joshua Schachter (the original founder of del.icio.us who left Yahoo in the Spring) behind the wheel. Delicious was supposed to rebrand about a year ago , but they have finally "dropped the dots" and are now rebranded as Delicious.com instead of del.icio.us. Under Yahoo's wing,

Raw Story covers how a 22-year old cop was filmed while slamming someone off his bike at a New York rally some days ago. The YouTube upload of this assembled over 1 million views so far according to YouTube's statistics, and may have played a big role in opposing the cop's statements. The cop had claimed, among other things, that the bicyclist was deliberately heading for him. In another recent report,