EQUTE — Google is set to release the new search update dubbed Caffeine, Google has taken down the Caffeine sandbox and left a nice little note.

Scammers posing as an ad buyer on Gawker Media sites somehow got their ad onto pages and infected a slew of people with malware.

EQUTE — New Comscore numbers show that Microsoft sites still account for nearly 15 percent of time spent on the Internet.

EQUTE — AVG Antivirus, a popular (242 million plus users) free antivirus, is blocking some affiliate links and other redirects and executable files that it wrongly labels as viruses or suspect links.

EQUTE — In a move designed to bring Google’s advertising prowess to the telephone the search giant has acquired AdMob for $750 million in an all-stock deal.

EQUTE — Rupert Murdoch says that he thinks News Corp will block the Google search spiders from crawling all of the massive corporation’s sites.

EQUTE — A new search feature is coming to Google, one that will help you find your friends and colleagues amid the vast Internet landscape.

EQUTE — A now famous veto letter from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that contained a hidden message directed a lawmaker who heckled the governor.

EQUTE — A new roadmap for Facebook updates will hopefully take the surprise out of future updates that have been a hassle for developers (and users) in the past.

EQUTE — The Adotas coverage of the Virtual Goods Summit in San Francisco caught a major controversy surrounding the use of lead generation in payment for virtual goods.

EQUTE — Everyone in the Internet marketing and advertising business has talked a lot about new Federal Trade Commission guidelines, now people are starting to see the FTC crackdown as a good thing..

EQUTE — Netlog, sometimes known as the “European MySpace” got a fancy, Web 2.0 makeover as it looks to draw more users and prepare for the eminent rollout in the United States.

EQUTE — ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has recently announced efforts to adopt non-English characters in domain names.

EQUTE — What exactly happens to our social network pages when we die? It’s an interesting and seasonally morbid question of our digital age.

EQUTE — There is an interesting post over at WebProNews that shows just how popular Facebook has become.

EQUTE — Google has gotten a little more friendly with WordPress with a new plugin straight from the source.

EQUTE — Fans of the iPhone, iTunes and iEverything else are taking offense to the new Google Droid commercials — and they are using iMovie to react.

EQUTE — The guys over at Adotas uncovered a note from the American Association of Advertising Agencies.

EQUTE — Users of Google Webmaster Tools woke up to see what has become a prevalent statistic for many site owners absent from the webmaster tool set.

The ad network Chitka did some research and found that more than anything, Twitter users want news.

EQUTE — A new site aims to spot what news stories people are talking about on social media in real time.

EQUTE — Everyone is chomping at the bit to dominate the social networks, but in reality, it shouldn’t be the number one priority for online advertisers.

EQUTE — Internet marketers and advertisers spend a lot of time thinking about conversions, ROI, click through, sales, rankings etc. that they forget to have a little fun.

EQUTE — So your search engine rankings are number one, your paid ads have been tweaked to perfection and the traffic is rolling in — now what?

EQUTE — A new survey shows that 54 percent of employers completely prohibit the use of social networking sites completely.

EQUTE — New research from Nielson Company shows that people are spending 25 percent more time watching videos. Unique viewers and videos watched per person were also up.

EQUTE — Advertisers are finding out that local ads are well worth the price.

EQUTE — A joint effort by the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance and the FBI shut down the largest click fraud ring ever seen.

EQUTE — John McCarthy has an interesting article over at Adotas, and it makes one think about what SEO has become — a buzzword for cheap traffic.