I was pretty much sick all week. I was down for the count with some nasty cold that I just couldn’t shake. It looks like I missed a bunch of interesting performance marketing news while I was sniffling, sneezing and coughing. Just in case you were also under the weather, here’s a little recap of the top 9 items that caught my eye from earlier this week (in no particular order).

*BumpZee Turns 200

*Google and Other Internet Giants to Create a Code of Conduct

*Top 25 Web 2.0 Search Engines

*Search Marketers Spent $9.4 Billion in 2006

*Ringtone Scammers in Big Trouble

*iCrossing To Purchase U.K. Shop Spannerworks

*MIVA Reducing Workforce by 20 Percent

*Looking into Asia/Pacific E-Commerce

*Ze Frank to Keynote Affiliate Summit East