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As of yesterday DoubleClick Performics is officially no more. It’s now the Google Affiliate Network. Also as of yesterday, DoubleClick Performics’ Search is being sold to a third party and is now running as its own business unit. The Google press release promises “exciting changes” to the affiliate user interface. Also promised in the press release for the future are “new opportunities for monetization, expansion and innovation in Affiliate Marketing”. I just blogged the other day that I haven’t made any money at affiliate marketing. I also never made one cent from Adsense. I wonder what impact the Google Affiliate Network will have on policies and the other affiliate programs.

• Are you making money with affiliate programs?
• 10/10/07 News bytes
• Affiliate program question

Computer and tech related stories you might be interested in.

Ebay is introducing its own social networking area today in an effort to try and keep sellers and buyers alike on the site.

Google brings AdSense to YouTube. The internet giant will be offering specific YouTube videos to the AdSense network. Any AdSense profits would be shared by the web publisher and the video maker. Adsense publishers will be able to specify the types of videos they’re willing to have appear on their site.

Acording to a newly released comscore study which looked at worldwide search engine use, web users perform 1.4 million searches every minute. According to this study more than 37 billion searches were done via Google in August, making them the clearly dominant search engine garnering about 60% of all searches. Second was Yahoo with 8.5 billion. Third was Baidu of China with 3.3 billion. Fourth was Microsoft with 2.2 billion. Rounding out the top five was NHN of South Korea with 2 billion. The data for the study came from 2 million users in over 170 countries.

Disney Mobile will be ending operations in the US on 12/31/07 because the market here is so very competitive.

Verizon Wireless introduced the Voyager as direct competition for the iphone. The Voyager is manufactured by LG. The phone is hinged and opens to reveal a keyboard and second screen. It will have a 2 megapixel camera, a high speed wireless connection and a slot for an additional 8gb of storage. Release is expected before the end of this year.

• 10/03/07 News bytes
• DoubleClick Performics now the Google Affiliate Network
• Spock

News from around the internet.
Toy magazine Toy Wishes has released its annual hot holiday toys list and more than half of it is tech related.
Yahoo has upgraded its search engine. They’re still behind when compared to Google.
In an annual conference Georgia Tech stated it feels videos such as those on YouTube are probably the next thing hackers will try to use to spread their code.

• 10/10/07 News bytes
• How do you sell online?
• Google on gas