High street retailers are gaining more visitors to their websites than their online-only competitors, a new study shows. The research and analysis gurus at Hitwise compared the 100 largest online high street stores, like Argos and M&S, with the 100 biggest web-only retailers, which include Play.com and the mighty Amazon. According to the study, these high street retailers received a fifth more UK visitors last month than those companies operating only online.

About a month ago, we found out that our team, along with all of Offline Ads, would be moving from our comfortable 4th floor cubicles in New York City all the way up to the comparatively uninhabited 6th floor. It was definitely a change of pace from the Manhattan-esque bustle of our old space to a quieter, more Brooklyn-esque feel. So the question arose: what happens when you drop an entire floor's worth of Googlers into a new office?

Here are some of the articles we have found interesting this week: Big Update to Webmaster Tools Live Search has launched a significant update to the Webmaster Center and brought the Center out of Beta (Live Aug 6 2008) Has Google Blocked WebPosition Ranking Software for Good?

If you use MSN adCenter's API then you should take note that you have only four days to upgrade or lose it all. The deadline for upgrading is August 14. The MSN team has a live webcast scheduled for August 19 and will be ready to take your questions. For more information, go to the adCenter blog . Google AdWords was down yesterday for system maintenance so if you tried to login and couldn't - that was the problem. It happens every month. Google Insights has launched.

One of the distractions of social bookmarking is the 'voting' component. Every bookmarking site has some form of voting, whether it is a thumb, a digg or a sphinn, it all the same. What motivates you to vote? If you were to vote every link to sent to you, you would be there all day reading and voting so my next question is, how many of these requests do you actually read? To be honest, I read very few. I read the title that is sent to me, and,

As spotted by Ciaran Norris , British tennis player Andy Murray is now using Twitter to provide regular updates to his fans and followers. Described by many, including the normally very polite Tim Henman, as a " miserable git " this could be a very clever idea to help win over some new fans by helping to portray himself a more cheerful image of what happens behind the scenes, rather than the serious/grumpy Andy Murray we see on-court and in post-match interviews!

When you syndicate your content using RSS and Feedburner,? do you send a full feed or an excerpt. As a reader of many blogs, and a subscriber of many feeds, the one option that is missing as the user, is whether I receive a full feed or excerpt.? I am at the whim of the blogger and what they decide to send. Like most issues, there are those that want only excerpt whilst others want the full story.? From the bloggers point of view,

Designed for advertising and marketing, Google's new tool, Google Insights For Search, may also become a handy little keyword research tool over time. The tool returns a lot of information for any search term although the standardizing of results makes it a little difficult to make comparisons. However, there are other tools that can be used to refine your research. Google Insights looks like more like a trends analysis, which in a way it is,

More often than not, a Google search will return millions and millions of results. 50 Matches is a search engine that never returns more than 50. The idea is that by indexing and searching only sites that have been bookmarked, "dugg", etc., the quality of the results will be so high that 50 matches are all you need. There are many ways to use the powers of the social web for search. You can encourage voting and commenting like Scour does,

Over the course of the last week, Fred Wilson has been writing about "Venture Fund Economics" at the newly-redesigned AVC . Fred has tackled topics like how venture capitalists are measured , the impact of management fees and carry on net returns , and the impact of big winners on venture returns . What's more, Fred has done the unthinkable - he has described venture economics in the context of his own fund's specific economic terms.