Weekly Roundup, January 5, 2007 
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Posted by: Herb: Friday, January 5th, 2007
Marketing
E-Commerce–$100 Billion in 2006, 25% increase year-on-year
Opt-ins are not forever? Great advice on email list pruning.
Bulk email not a do-it-yourself thing: Six Reasons Why You Need an ESP
Search and RSS
Part 2 of ClickZ’s two-parter on SEM and SEO
“The Sausage Manifesto“: What’s really in the PPC Sausage
Sometimes a slice is better than the whole pie. Vertical search narrows the field, and is bringing results.
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. Google foray into China.
Phew! That was close. Google security breach.
Google share not as big a slice of the pie: keyword inflation, low conversion rates are sending merchants elsewhere
Wiki search – better than Google?
Other search engines in the offing as well.
Microsoft
Which do you like better? IE vs. Firefox: browsing the browsers
The evolution of the PCs—get ready for amazing new features in 2007
Amazon
When Google leaves a vacuum, you know someone’s gotta fill it. Check out Amazon’s Askville.com.
More on Askville
And now you can get even more stuff with the retail giant: Amazon launches independent Endless.com
Around the Web
Vote for your fave pics from the Mars rovers
Web Trend Map 2007. What happens when the Web looks like a subway map.
S.D. Daughtry January 9, 2007 at 1:33 pm
While the spending of ecommerce is increasing at a tremendous rate. The total percentage accounts only less than 3% of total retail volume; really cant wait when it goes up to 20-30% (I think they’ll plateau from there)
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