Web users find the overlay ad format as annoying as pop-up ads, according to new research.

As advertising industry gurus fine-tune their spending forecasts for 2005, there is one area in which a sense of caution bred by several years of disappointment doesn't apply: online ads.

Google will change its policy on paid listings from affiliates to reduce duplicative listings for the same merchant's Web pages, the search giant said Friday. Google said it would look for ads that direct to the same Internet address. If two or more direct to the same address, Google will display the one with the highest Ad Rank, which is the bid amount multiplied by the ad's click-through rate. All ads must direct to the Web address shown in the ad copy.

Google's clubby campus has been hit with an embarrassment of riches--literally--thanks to a rarely invoked securities law requiring the company to report stock sales of hundreds of employees, rather than just top shareholders.

Few topics inspire trips to the crystal ball like technology, although hasty predictions have often only provided future generations with quotes for cocktail party chat.

The web not only gave us real-time news of the gigantic waves' destruction, but also pushed us to help the survivors.

The strong rise in internet advertising will continue in 2005, according to new research by media agency Carat, which is predicting growth of 20% for the year.

It didn't make as many headlines as iTunes or the iPod, but 2004 was the year that Internet radio was reborn. Ask Evan Harrison, the new head of the Internet business at Clear Channel Communications, the broadcast radio giant that owns 1,200 stations around the United States. After several years of scattershot Web strategies, the conglomerate hired Harrison away from America Online's entertainment business in November, with an eye to creating an Internet powerhouse.

The cool head of Amazon.com talks about the rise of the obscure, taking on Netflix, and why he quit spending on TV advertising.

Six Apart said on Thursday it had acquired Danga Interactive Inc., bringing together two pioneers of online journals known as blogs and creating a stronger rival to Google Inc.'s Blogger.com service.