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MSN is offering $1 million in prizes and charitable donations for searching on MSN. MSN Search and Win promotion gives customers the chance to win a variety of prizes each time a search is performed on MSN. [Read more]  [Read more]

Alliance Data Systems is going to acquire DoubleClick Email Solutions. The objective is to improve marketing service capabilities particularly in the areas of strategic consulting, client services, delivery optimization and analytics. [Read more]  [Read more]

98% of college students have made a purchase of a product or service online. College-educated 18-34 year olds are responsible for $175 billion in annual consumer spending, according to Experience, a career service provider, survey. [Read more]  [Read more]

Sifry has released the second part of ‘State of the Blogosphere, February 2006: Beyond Search’. This second part covers the growth of the blogosphere as media, and discusses some of the emerging trends that deal with handling information overload. [Read more]  [Read more]

Google has announced a new service Measure Map for blogs. Bloggers can use the service to track links to see who sends traffic to their blogs and find out what people do at their site. Adaptive Path has sold Measure Map, an analytics service designed for bloggers, to Google. [Read more]  [Read more]

Online spending in the Flowers & Gifts, Health & Beauty and Jewelry & Watches categories rose 22% in 2006. Online sales in the Health & Beauty and Jewelry & Watches category each rose 24%, according to comScore analysis. [Read more]  [Read more]

80% of advertisers use online channel for their advertising. It is likely that 90% will adopt online advertisement by 2008, according to Outsell survey findings. [Read more]  [Read more]

Yahoo! has released two libraries, Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and Yahoo! User Interface Library. Yahoo! has also launched a companion blog to these two libraries, called Yahoo! User Interface Blog. [Read more]  [Read more]

Google has announced a new forum for Google Analytics Help. Powered by Google Groups, Analytics Help is a place where Google Analytics users can post questions, share knowledge and best practices, and meet other Analytics users. [Read more]  [Read more]

TRM, an ATM and photocopy services company has won the eBay auction for five days of ads on the Rocketboom video blog. $500 was the starting bid and $40,000 was the final bid. [Read more]  [Read more]

Google has launched Google for Domain Beta. Gmail is hosting Gmail accounts with SJCC domain addresses. [Read more]  [Read more]

Search Engine Watch is organizing a Search Engine Strategies event in China. SES is a conference on search engine marketing and optimization. [Read more]  [Read more]