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[Editorial] From destination to distribution - new paradigms for the networked customer

The paradigm of the web channel being a vast shop with elastic walls has run its course. As Ian Jindal packs his bucket and spade for the summer holidays, he considers a new etailing paradigm: active selling in the network age. Retailers have managed the web for too long - our customers want it back!

[Editorial] Google's "Checkout" and the retail challenge

Google's "Checkout" is more than a payment sytem to rival PayPal: this system questions who is the actual retailer in the mind of the customer, and weakens retailers' increasingly tentative grip on customer loyalty.

Google's Paypal competitor... 'Gpay'?

Google today provides no new information about its touted new payments system, but it fuels speculation by saying it's 'different to paypal'.

Google's Q2 results: making more money

It always gives etailers chirpy cheer to see just how much more money Google is making out of us...

Murdoch and Google: monetise MySpace - and more

There is no more bracing sound in the jungle than two mighty creatures getting comfortable with each other. Google, doyen of search and everything in beta, and Murdoch's MySpace (and more) are now cosying up on the matter of search (irrelevant) and ad revenue (kerching). Why should we care?

Google maps: commerce at last! Coupons for local businesses

Here's the Google Maps business model... You search for something and local companies can be listed along with coupons or vouchers for promotions that customers can print themselves.

Retailers' resistance to Google Checkout

As predicted here when we covered the release of Google Checkout, retailers look to shun the service over concerns about loss of ownership of their customers (according to a recent survey quoted on e-consultancy.com)

Online ads: soon "click to CALL", not just to look

In an article in Internet.com we get a quick heads up that eBay, Yahoo and Google are aligning their systems to allow customers to click on an ad and "call" - using eBay's Skype and Google Talk technology. And we thought life was complicated enough with text ads! Time to brush up your relationship with your friendly contact centre provider...

Google and Intuit: fresh meat to the advertising-directory grinder

Intuit - purveyors of "Quicken" financial software have cosied up to Microsoft - oops, I mean Google - with an integration announcement, tying the Quicken software to Google's services. Service small businesses - or ensnaring them?

The eyeballs have it: Google and YouTube

Well, it won't be news that Google have bought YouTube. While finding difficult to get excited (other than by the thought of rolling around in 1, 650,000,000 dollar bills... ) there's some small initial interest for web marketers.

Google eats itself...?

Google has quietly released a new search interface that's pure 'web2.0' - a "mashup" of open data feeds and a rich user interface - appropriately called "SearchMash". There are some indications here of how search could develop and it's worth a look.

The Google Algorithm - reverse-engineered?

Understanding how Google ranks pages is the holy grail of search marketing, and today Rand at SEOmoz has published his view on this: a combination of experience and reverse engineering. There are over 200 factors that combine to give the weighting, but this view is a great aid memoire in planning one's page design, text and linking strategy.

eBay and Google - make more money

Yes, I know, it's hardly news any more. So - in brief - eBay makes 10% more and Google makes 70% more than last year. If you can get up the energy, links to the details follow...

"We are very pleased..." - Google

"We are very pleased with the impressive growth we experienced across our business," said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. So he might be: $4.23 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2007, an increase of 57% compared to the third quarter of 2006 and an increase of 9% compared to the second quarter of 2007. I've looked for some bad news, really I have, but I reached the paragraph about their $13bn in cash and realised I was wasting my time.


Google continues to dominate UK search

The April 2008 UK Search rankings from comScore show Google still hits the mark and social networking sites are playing catch up with Yahoo and Microsoft