The hype machine has busy again. The new kid on the block of search engines, cuil.com has not delivered what it promised. Granted it is early days for the search engine, the disappointing results it provides from its searches will probably mean that it is quietly forgotten.

The following article goes into more depth on the failings. 

Cuil Search Engine: After Hype Wears Off, Nothing Remains

Here's a great excuse for when your website next goes offline. Sainbury's had its website knocked offline for several hours following a break in at the company's Internet Service Provider, Cable and Wireless. Expensive server or networking equipment wasn't the target, but copper cabling.

Spiralling global prices for scrap metals, especially copper has seen rise in metal theft. The surging price of copper has been fuelled by global demand, especially by newly emerging economic powers of China and India. With everyone now feeling the effects of global economic slowdown and surging fuel costs, it seems likely that metal thefts will continue to rise. Given that many networking components use a lot of copper, Sainsbury's may not be the last website to be affected by this.

Bounce Rate is a term which is often used to measure a website's audience engagement. It is the percentage of initial visitors who leave your site after arriving at the entry page, without viewing other pages on your site. Google Analytics is a tool that can help you determine your bounce rate.

A low bounce rate means that visitors are exploring your website in greater detail. This can be inferred to mean that they are more engaged with your content.

Further detail and supporting links can be found on the DoshDosh.com article:

How to Analyze and Improve the ‘Bounce Rate’ for Your Website

Dosh Dosh is a blog offering internet marketing and blogging tips, alongside social media strategies. Best consumed by bloggers, entrepreneurs, web publishers, marketers, freelancers and small business owners.

The internet has moved from being a novelty to integral part of our daily lives. Channel 4 interview the inventer of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Bernes-Lee about the role of government and business in the internet. It is his desire to see the internet remain an open platform of communication and not monopolized or restricted.

eBay has lost its battle against the competition watchdog to institute a controversial payment policy.

eBay had planned to use Australia to trial the ban on all other forms of payment apart from cash on delivery and PayPal, an electronic service it owns.

There were few voices in support of eBay’s commercial freedom to tie use of its own payments mechanism to purchases (with the Wall Street Journal and The Sheet two of the few).

Sellers were furious about the policy because PayPal charges sellers 30¢ for each transaction plus between 1.1% and 2.4% of the payment as commission.

The ACCC received about 700 submissions, including from the Reserve Bank, Australian Bankers' Association and Google, criticising the move. On June 12, the ACCC released a draft notice revoking immunity from sections of the Trade Practices Act that would shield eBay from being sued for engaging in anti-competitive conduct.

One aspect of the company’s plan remains. eBay requires all sellers to offer PayPal as a payment choice on eBay.com.au along with other permitted payment methods of their choosing.