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Published: Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 5:20 a.m. LOGGING on to Gmail or other e-mail service has become a routine of daily life, completed without a thought.

Internet advertising expenditures in Britain grew to $2.95 billion (1.68 billion pounds) in the first half of 2008, a 21 percent increase year-on-year, according to the internet Advertising Bureau (IAB).Marketers showed overwhelming confidence in online advertising at a time when all major advertising mediums experienced declines in expenditure. The total advertising market was down 0.7 percent year-on-year, during the first six months of 2008. Without the internet's growth the advertising market would have experienced a 4.6 percent decline.read more

Search is important in the business world, keeping companies like Google and Yahoo afloat and causing others to revise their sites in every way imaginable. Search often indicates what society as a whole is up to, as well, and Bill Tancer explored this trait at SMX East.read more

Google is working on a new Gmail feature in Google Labs that allows the user to better protect themselves from sending emails that they may later regret sending. The feature is called "Mail Goggles", and seems to be aimed at people who have too much to drink on the weekends and send out drunken emails that when they wake up the next day and wish they hadn't sent. So What Does it Do Exactly? read more

by Stoney deGeyter One of the hardest thing for an SEO to manage is expectations. For many SEO consultants and firms, part of closing the deal is to get the client to believe that the work they provide is going to get them "results," however that is defined. But in doing so, many of those charged with getting the client to sign on the dotted line can easily make things sound better than they really are. That's a product of sales. Just look at any commercial for a new health or diet product. At the bottom of the screen you read something like "these results are atypical, your results may vary." That's almost the exact disclaimer that could benefit many SEOs as they push through their sales cycles. A good SEO can undersell and overperform. The problem is getting the sale . That's not always an easy task when underselling, especially when you're going after businesses with limited budgets but want sometimes unrealistic achievement for the money they are willing to pay. Once signe

There are all sorts of things that might keep folks from watching the presidential debates on TV: technical problems, appointments elsewhere, or spouses with a low tolerance for politicians. Fortunately for them, Hulu plans to stream the last two debates live.read more

At todays keynote Tim Armstrong, President, Advertising and Commerce, North America, & Vice President - Google, spoke to Danny Sullivan about a variety of topics.(Coverage of the SMX East conference will continue at WebProNews Videos. Keep an eye on WebProNews for more notes and videos from the event this week.)read more

The economy has everyone in the U.S. worried about what's ahead. Many are calling for another great depression, and it is hard to know just what that will mean in a world where so much business thrives on the internet. It's a different world than it was in the 30s. Of course most money made on the internet comes from advertising, so naturally, one has to wonder how Internet ad spending will fare in the not-too-distant future. read more

In uncertain—well, frightening—economic times it stands to reason that businesses would be looking to trim their budgets where they can. Some think that means advertising will naturally suffer. On the contrary, when is there a better time to seek new customers? read more

U.S. internet advertising revenues for the first half of 2008 were $11.5 billion, reaching another half -year record that represents a 15.2 percent increase over the first half of 2007, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).The second quarter of '08 was up 12.8 percent over the same period in 2007 and showed a small decline of 0.3 percent from the first quarter.read more