Ask Jeeves becomes Ask.com; owner Barry Diller announces his new motto “Be Evil” while the launch party features evil Star Trek drones and even worse music. Google’s share price does not drop as a result.

We’ve just published a glossary of Internet marketing terms, and a WordPress plugin automatically links keywords that appear on our site to the glossary. Let us know what you think!

Rachel Cunliffe, the designer of this site, has a provocative post about using social bookmarking software, like del.icio.us, as a search engine. Is it better than Google?

with the introduction today of the public beta of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7, internationalized domain names (IDNs) are about to enter a new phase. It’s a huge step forward for non-English-speaking people and a huge challenge for intellectual property owners, and possibly for the future of a unified Internet.

Complaints about plagiarism are roiling again. But that’s just because journalists have ethics, even if they don’t always follow them. What about the other theft going on around the Net?

Despite the significant traffic that comes from typed-in domain names, the public harumphing and clucking about type-in traffic is climbing in volume as it becomes clear how much money is involved. Articles this week show that domain names, and the people who make money on them, are making some commentators uncomfortable.

The usual question, “Chicken or Beef” got a new twist on a recent flight on American Airlines, where valuable marketing real estate did not go to waste. Will we see a new specialty, “tray marketers”?

Names@Work is visiting the UK firm Sitelynx for discussions with Graham Hansell and his team.

From a variety of unofficial sources, Names@Work is counting direct traffic (not from search engines) on the web at about 15%. That confirms that domain name traffic needs to be carefully considered when talking about how people get to web sites.