To set the stage, I commend you to a recent podcast featuring an interesting discussion about the European web analytics market, moderated by Lars Johannsen, the Web Analytics Association Coordinator in Sweden.

The 75-minute discussion focused on current challenges facing European enterprises investing in analytics,

With little fanfare, ClickTracks' CEO John Marshall is leaving his post to pursue other opportunities. This perhaps isn't too surprising considering the ClickTracks was purchased in August by e-marketing roll-up company, J.L. Halsey

Last week Google Analytics customers reported service outages that affected some for more than 24 hours. Worse, Google issued no official comment until yesterday.

As Phil pointed out last week, Google has nicely upgraded it free Google Analytics package. But we find ourselves asking the same question that we pose of Google's Search Appliance product:

Amid all the hype arround the new version of Google Analytics last week, Visual Sciences/WebSideStory did its share to grab headlines by announcing new releases for HBX and Visual Sciences, and officially changing the name of the company from WebSideStory to Visual Sciences.

With much fanfare at yesterday's Emetrics Summit, Google unveiled a new version of Google Analytics.

Google's recent announcement that it upgraded the "Mini" version of its Search Appliance ("GSA") inspires me to share some useful links that have been accumulating in open tabs

CMS Watch contributing analyst Steve Arnold talks about search and related text mining technologies at Government Computer News.

Slowly but surely Google is responding to customer requests for more capacity and greater control over results sets.

As Enterprise Search Report readers know, one of the drawbacks of Google's search appliance is that it cannot be tuned the way you can with most enterprise search products.

Google has announced Google OneBox, an extension to its search appliance that enables it to retrieve data from various enterprise applications like Cognos and Salesforce.com.

A month can't go by without commenting about Google and enterprise search.

Google has landed as an influential partner for its enterprise professional program. Inxight Software -- a spin off of the famed Xerox PARC -- has been a key provider of text mining technology to SAS Institute, U.S. federal agencies, and Clear Forest, among others.

In a brief press release Swedish CMS vendor ElektroPost today announced that they have signed a partnership agreement with search giant Google.