Quarterly Revenue Growth For Internet Search Companies

Quarterly Revenue Growth For Internet Search Companies: "The following chart shows quarterly revenue growth for companies involved with internet search technology. (Note: Some companies have other significant businesses).Data in table version: Ticker Stock Revenue Growth Quarter Ending BIDU BAIDU.COM, INC. 169.8% 12/31/05 GOOG GOOGLE INC 86.0% 12/31/05 IACI IAC/INTERACTIVECORP 45.1% 12/31/05 INSP INFOSPACE INC 8.5% 12/31/05 LOOK LOOKSMART LTD -39.4% 12/31/05 MSFT MICROSOFT CORP 9.4% 12/31/05 YHOO YAHOO INC 39.3% 12/31/05 "

Settlement in BlackBerry Patent Case Unlikely Soon

Justice Department Rejects Google's Privacy Concerns

Click Fraud Gets Smarter, Faces Crackdown

Web consultant Greg Boser has an ingenious method for sending loads of traffic to clients' Internet sites. Last month he began using a software program known as a clickbot to create the impression that users from around the world were visiting sites by way of ads strategically placed alongside Google search results. The trouble is, all the clicks are fake. Because Google charges advertisers on a per-click basis, the extra traffic could mean sky-high bills for Boser's clients....

AOL files suit against phishers

AOL files suit against phishers

Ruling May Impact Google Book Search Case

In a recent case, Judge A. Howard Matz of United States District Court for the Central District of California, said Google's use of thumbnail-sized reproductions in its image search program violated the copyright of Perfect 10, a publisher of X-rated magazines and Web sites, because it undermined that company's ability to license those images for sale to mobile phone users ... 'I think it takes the wind out of their sails,' Jan Constantine, the general counsel for the Authors Guild, said of the Perfect 10 decision. The guild and the Association of American Publishers brought copyright infringement lawsuits against Google over its Book Search program...

The Five Biggest Marketing Mistakes Lawyers Make

"Nora Lockwood Tooher of Lawyers Weekly (ntooher@lawyersweekly.com), talked to four marketing consultants about how many law firms waste precious marketing resources. Jim Calloway, Tom Kane, Gerry Riskin gave excellent answers, and I too was asked what are the five..."

Farmshoring - Meme to Watch (Dennis M. Kennedy)

Farmshoring - Meme to Watch (Dennis M. Kennedy): "Farmshoring has a catchy ring to it. According to Wikipedia, 'Where offshoring is the relocation of business labor to foreign nations, farmshoring is the relocation of business labor to small rural American towns.' I've heard the terms 'homesourcing' and 'insourcing' to refer to outsourcing work, including legal work, to the US Midwest and other 'non-coastal parts of the US. It's an idea that starting to get a lot of discussion and some traction, including in the discussion of Law 2.0. One more piece of 'the world is flat' conversation and a new meme to watch.. Thanks to Rob McMay at BusinessPundit.com for the explanation and links. Technorati tags: farmshoring outsourcing insourcing homesourcing Law2.0 "

Burger King’s financial health improving

"The difference at Burger King since Greg Brenneman took over in 2004 is clear: profits are small but growing, the company and its franchisees are in better financial health and the world’s second-largest hamburger chain has lots of advertising buzz and popular new products."