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In the UK, Germany, and France the Internet has about double the influence of television when it comes to consumer decision making according to the Digital Influence Index, a study done by Fleishman-Hillard and Harris Interactive.The study found that consumers use the Internet in a number of ways to make decisions. Consumers are more likely to seek opinions of others by visiting social media and product rating sites when making choices that have a major personal impact.

Forty percent of all search queries are repeat queries from users trying to find information they have found before, according to a new study. But if there has been a change in search result rankings since the last time the query was entered, it significantly hinders the searcher from re-finding the information they seek.

If, as Compete suggests, 20 million visitors is the "magical mark" indicating a website has officially arrived as a dominant force – most recent additions to this exclusive club include Digg.com and Facebook – then the folks behind AOL's Truveo video search engine must have exchanged their old wands for Super Deluxe models.

Privacy International chose to label Google as with the worst privacy rating of any of the twenty-three companies they examined in their report on privacy for Internet service companies. I think that at least some of the reasoning behind PI’s rating is found in their statement:

Britney Spears' forgot-to-do-my-laundry debacle (you know what I mean, don't make me say it) couldn't have been better for her career (and the multitudes of semi-pedophilic or naturally curious masses for that matter) if it had been contrived by her own publicist. Spears is not just at the top of the celebrity search charts, she's more popular than Yahoo.

There are many ways to make your blog a successful one. Blog writers put a lot of work in their writing and for the most part, want readers to visit.

More than a year has passed since Google introduced NoFollow - a tag intended to reduce comment spam on blogs. Unfortunately, NoFollow has had very little effect on spam, and it seems to be dissuading some people from providing genuine comments.

Now here's a search engine destined for controversy. Pixsy.com, a "visual search engine" that scours the web for images and videos on RSS feeds and makes them searchable, launched yesterday - for the second time, and it may not be ready still.