With the media industry in a panic for several years now over the sustainability of its business model, the moderate success of Hulu is becoming the fad standard to follow. As Peter Kafka writes, the magazine industry is finally ready to announce that...

It's nearly the end of the year and the Google Zeitgeist has been released - the search engine's annual report on the most popular keywords people searched for. It's a fascinating glimpse into the public psyche when taken in aggregate. (All results...

Yesterday was Cyber Monday - the online equivalent of Black Friday and the best-selling retail day of the year for websites. The results are in. According to CNN, even amidst the recession, Cyber Monday sales rose 14% this year compared to 2008 and...

We're all paranoid in these days of digital camera phones and online social networks of somebody posting an embarrassing picture of ourselves, only to have it indexed by a search engine which will archive it and make it live forever. Much has been...

A few remarkable stats from Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why it Matters, a book that analyses historical patterns in search engine use. The domain name Sex.com has generated over $100 million in revenues over the last decade,...