Search industry dirt, straight from the headlines:
- Google Needs Rats, aka Page Creator users, to help with a product study. Click here if you have half an hour to kill.
- Yahoo! confirmed a bug in their Publisher Network portal, causing reporting errors for Ad Unit Impressions, CTR, CPM and Average RPC data. Clicks and Revenues were not affected.
- Theivery is afoot the U.S. Department of Commerce, where 1,137 laptops have gone missing since 2001! Or maybe they were just misplaced…
- Spying just got a step closer to legal for the US. Government, when the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee approved the Electronic Modernization Surveillance Act.
- Hackers of the World will unite next week for Yahoo!’s annual Open Hack Day. Leave your laptops and personal information at home.
- Amazon and Tivo are rumored to be “in talks” about connecting Amazon Unbox (video download service) to Tivo. If talks turn into a deal, this would seriously take a bite out of Apple’s future iTV.
