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Lightspeed Systems Offers Enhanced Network, Gateway And Desktop Security Lightspeed Systems, developer of innovative security software products for educational, government and business enterprises, today announced Total Traffic Control (TTC) v5.03.
New BitDefender Technologies Premiered At CeBIT BitDefender will be showcasing new technologies to decrease reaction time at the CeBIT Fair in Hannover.
Microsoft Issues NT4 Critical Updates Although they indicated support would cease, Microsoft has issued two critical updates for their NT4 server software package.
Panix Domain Hijacked Panix, an Internet service provider for the New York area, was the victim of a domain hijacking this past weekend. The attack has put the ISP in a recovery mode as they effort to restore the domain back to normal.
FTC Shuts Down Porn Companies Over Spam With the goal of curbing pornographic spam, the FTC has won an injunction that allows them to shutdown operations of six adult-orientated web sites because of CAN-SPAM violations.
Texas Files Lawsuit Against Spammers Joined by Microsoft, the state of Texas has filed a lawsuit against what they term as "the world's fourth largest spammer."
Radware Joins Oracle for Optimized and Secure Enterprise Applications Radware Application Switching Technology Delivers Maximized Performance, Reliability and Security for Oracle Solutions.
Adlex Announces Adlex Service Delivery Quality Audit Adlex today announced the Adlex Service Delivery Quality Audit, designed for all corporations wishing to quickly assess the current quality of their service levels and determine areas that need improvement.
Calpine Purchased and Deploys Peribit Sequence Reducers Peribit Networks announced today that Calpine has purchased and deployed Peribit Sequence Reducers. Calpine's WAN optimization initiative, which included Peribit equipment, enabled Calpine to save $3.5 million per year in communications costs, providing a four-month ROI, and increase application performance by replacing its frame relay service with a WAN VPN service.
Microsoft to Target Broad Availability of Longhorn Windows Client Operating System Microsoft today announced it will target broad availability of the Windows client operating system code-named "Longhorn" in 2006, and make key elements of the Windows WinFX developer platform in "Longhorn" available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
Sify Recieves Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award for IP VPN Markets Sify announced today that it has been awarded the prestigious Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award for IP VPN markets for the year 2003.
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Google Decides To List With Nasdaq Google stated in a required SEC filing that it prefers to be listed with Nasdaq . It has been rumored that the New York Stock Exchange has been working feverishly in an attempt to persuade the Worlds largest search engine to list their shares with them.
Digital Impact Purchasing Search Marketing Firm Digital Impact, a leading email marketing company, announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire Marketleap, a San Francisco-based Internet marketing firm specializing in search engine marketing services. Marketleap clients include About.com, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Kaiser Permanente and Salesforce.com.
How Search Engine Rank Impacts Traffic Today at AD:TECH Chicago, Atlas DMT released research demonstrating the impact of paid search listings rank on traffic and how marketers can better model and forecast paid search campaigns.
GlobalSpec Partners With Dice Inc. To Offer Engineering Job Search Engineering search engine GlobalSpec, announced today that it is partnering with Dice Inc. to offer an engineering job search. This option will be available on GlobalSpec's website.
Traffix To Acquire SendTraffic Direct marketing company Traffix is set to acquire the rights to SendTraffic.com, a search engine marketing firm. SendTraffic provides full service search engine marketing solutions to over 100 clients. SendTraffic also maintains "Certified Ambassador" status with Overture, and is a member of the Google Research Board.
Overture Australia Signs Deal With Australian News Sites Yahoo-owned Overture has signed a deal with News Interactive, which is the digital outlet of News LTD, an Australian news conglomerate. The deal calls for Overture to provide advertising and search services to News Interactive and its subsidiaries.
FAST ESP To Power Human Rights Search Engine HURIDOCS, a human rights network, has announced the implementation of the FAST Enterprise Search Platform (ESP) to power its search engine, HURISEARCH. HURIDOCS is a non-profit organization devoted to human rights and the dissemination of human rights information.
Ask Jeeves Files Universal Shelf Registration Statement With SEC In an effort to offer investors up to $400 million of its common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares, debt securities and warrants, Ask Jeeves has filed a Form S-3 with the SEC. Once the SEC declares the filing effective, Ask Jeeves will be allowed to offer the requested amount of stock.
Survey Says Google Users Have Most Internet Experience A study done by Standard & Poor's Equity Research Services that was conducted on search engines has released its results. The survey's findings indicate that 48% of search engine users say they use Google most overall, compared to 20% for Yahoo, 14% for MSN and 7% for AOL.
WebSourced Acquires Engine Studio CGI Holding Corporation today announced that its WebSourced, Inc. subsidiary has acquired the assets of Engine Studio, Inc. Engine Studio has two sites, www.GlobalPromoter.com and www.TurboPromoter.com, that offer search engine marketing services.
Yahoo Advertising On Google Although the two companies are acknowledged competitors, Yahoo has begun advertising on Google using Google's AdWords program. AdWords works by having clients bid on keywords that can be used to query search engines. These keywords, when searched, will cause Google AdWords to display text ads associated with the content of the search.
Vivisimo Ranked Second Most Popular Search Engine In a study done by About.com, who polled a focus group of 181 men and women between the ages of 20 and 64, found that metasearch engine Vivisimo tied with Yahoo for the second place in popularity with a score of 4.6 out of 5.
Web Porn More Popular Than Search Engines While search engines dominate the Internet news topics, another form of surfing seems to be dominating web use. According to a study done by Hitwise, a company that measures online performance, amongst other services, shows that online porn sites receive more traffic than search engines do.
Siemens Announces Mobile Phone Search Engine Mobile technology giant Siemens has announced their plans to introduce a mobile phone search engine function. The search engine that will be integrated was developed by MotionBridge, a French start up funded by Siemens.
Dogpile Search Engine Toolbar Wins PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award Metasearch engine Dogpile has won the PC Magazine Editor's Choice Award for their search toolbar. The issue is scheduled to come out on June 8, 2004. This award marks the third major industry award won by Dogpile this year.
TransitionalMedia Integrates Metamend Search Engine Optimization Metamend and TransitionalMedia have joined in a private label agreement to provide Metamend's SEO techniques to TransitionalMedia's client base. Metamend's technology analyzes a web site's content, and then submits these sites to a number of search engines.
LookSmart Partners With Cal For Search Services The Cal Athletic Department announced a partnership with California based search engine LookSmart to develop a branded search engine for the Cal Athletics department that will support the university's athletic programs. This partnership will also provide search services for students and alumni.
Google Announces Upgrades Of Corporate Search Package Today, June 2, 2004, search engine Google announced the availability of its upgraded Google Search Appliance. GSA is a hardware/software package designed to deliver Google-quality search results on intranets and public websites.
Atlas DMT Adds More Search Engines To Atlas OnePoint Atlas DMT, a digital marketing technology provider, announced today the addition of LookSmart and Mirago to their line-up of supported search engines for their Atlas OnePoint paid search management tools. The company also unveiled its currency conversion tools for its web analytics and conversion tracking service, called the Atlas OnePoint ProfitBuilder.
SearchEngineWatch Forums Launch One of the more comprehensive search engine news sites, SearchEngineWatch.com, has launched a forum for users to discuss any manner of topics related the search engine industry. With the popularity of all things search, it's almost a sure bet that these forums will soon be heavily populated.
Yahoo Search Offers Gas Price Shortcut Searching for the cheapest gas when you need to fill up the tank just got a little easier thanks to Yahoo Search. Yahoo now features a search shortcut that will allow users to locate the lowest gas prices in their area. With today's gas prices averaging around $2 a gallon, the need for such a option is clear.
Yahoo Japan Drops Google From Search And Switches Ad Format To Overture Yahoo's cleansing continues. The internet's most popular portal is keeping its focus on improving its search engine capabilities and keyword advertising. Earlier this year, Yahoo dropped Google from its US search engine in favor of their own algorithm, and it looks like the purge is continuing.
Gmail To Support Mobile Technology Google's email service, Gmail, has been the topic of much discussion among the internet communities. Every aspect of Google's new service has been dissected, with both negative and positive points of view receiving equal time. All the while Gmail hasn't even left its beta testing stage.
DoubleClick Releases 1st Quarter Email Trend Report A quarterly study of email trends done by DoubleClick discovered useful information for email marketers. The data for the report comes from DoubleClick's DARTmail email delivery technology, including billions of emails from hundreds of clients.
Tutornet To Launch Search Services Online educational services provider Tutornet has signed a five year deal with Harvest Consulting Inc. to provide an interactive search service focused on education. The service, called Tutornet INSIGHT, will integrate its interactive classroom software with Harvest Consulting's search engine.
Yahoo Introduces New Toolbar Featuring Free Spyware Protection Yahoo has begun beta testing a new toolbar that will feature a spyware function called Anti-Spy. The new anti-spyware addition will allow users to protect their computers from these types of programs.
Microsoft Reveals Details On Upcoming Search Technology At the Goldman Sachs Internet conference Wednesday, May 26, 2004, in Las Vegas, Yusuf Mehdi, head of Microsoft's MSN portal disclosed details of Microsoft's upcoming search technologies. Mehdi revealed that Microsoft is concentrating on "end-to-end" search capabilities, not just internet search.
Foundstone Introduces Google Powered SiteDigger Foundstone, a company offering strategic security for business and IT professionals, today announced the availability of SiteDigger, a free tool designed to help identify potential sources of information leakage on public Web sites.
NPR Optimizes Audio Files For Search Engine Purposes National Public Radio, in an effort to make their audio content crawlable, has begun transcribing audio news streams into text files. These efforts appear to be paying off for NPR; these transcriptions have begun appearing on Google and Yahoo News, complete with links to source audio file.
Senate Approves Bill Concerning Gmail Policies A bill authored by Senator Liz Figueroa (D-Ca) that limits Gmail's ad placement procedures has been approved by the Senate by a vote of 24-8. The bill questioned Google's intention of placing contextual ads within incoming and outgoing emails.
Interchange Partners With YellowPages.com For Local Search Advertising YellowPages.com and the Interchange corporation have agreed to a partnership designed to enable YellowPages.com to offer cost-per-click advertising services to businesses via Interchange's Local Direct search platform.
The Google Domain Game Gary Price at ResourceShelf.com has compiled a list of domains that were either registered by Google or contain the Google name.
GlobalSpec Partners With ENGINEERING.com GlobalSpec, known as "The Engineering Search Engine", has partnered with Engineering.com to improve the site's search capabilities. Engineering.com is designed to serve as a global portal for those interested in the field. The goal of ENGINEERING.com is "to become the ultimate resource tool for the global engineering community and to provide a leading business-to-business Internet marketplace for engineering products and services."
ValueClick Joins The Search Engine Advertising Revolution With a desire to capitalize on the Internet advertising industry that made $2.3 billion in the first quarter of 2004 alone, ValueClick has announced an upgrade to its search engine-marketing program.
Yahoo Takes New Messenger Out Of Beta, Releases Version 6 Monday, May 24, 2004 saw the beta testing period end for Yahoo's newest version of its instant messenger. The new version, 6.0, features a great many bells and whistles in order to improve the quality of IM sessions. The messenger breaks its features down into 4 categories: entertainment, personalization, productivity, and communication.
Google Tops The Wired 40 Wired Magazine has released its annual Wired 40 list that identifies the 40 companies that, as masters of innovation, technology and strategic vision, are driving the global economy. Once again, Google claims the first position, finishing off the top 5 of a who's who in the Web industry.
Hitwise Releases Highlights of Online Search Sector Report Competitive intelligence service Hitwise has released highlights of a report it conducted on the search engine industry. The report studied the amount of traffic search engines receive, the amount of visitor growth experienced, demographic information, and which categories garnered the most visitors.
Google Increases Number Of Underwriters For Its IPO The world's most popular search engine, Google has added additional underwriters for its planned $2.7 billion IPO. Google named 29 other banks to assist the already named Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. and Credit Suisse First Boston.
Google Co-founders Reveal Percentage Of Ownership An amended filing received by the SEC on Friday, May 21, 2004 contained information about the percentages of Google owned by co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. This amendment also contained information about the number of banks that Google selected for underwriting their IPO.
BURST Media Partners With Tacoda For Behavioral Targeting Keeping with the Kanoodle/24/7 Real Media merger theme, BURST Media has announced a partnership with Tacoda for behavioral targeting purposes. The agreement sees BURST making use of Tacoda's Audience Management System to track its audience.
IAB Releases 1st Quarter Internet Advertising Figures The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released the 1st quarter figures for Internet advertising. The numbers reveal the amount of revenue spent in the 1st quarter of 2004. The report also shows that the numbers for this quarter exceed previous records for Internet advertising revenue.
YouSearched Launches Disability Accessible Search Engine Claiming to be the world's first accessible search engine for people with disabilities, YouSearched.com has completed its launch. In an email sent by StepForth, a member of the YouSearched design team, the plans on how the engine achieves its accessibility goals is laid out.
FindFoward Search Engine Offering RSS Feeds For Search Results RSS feeds are in high demand. Having the ability to get live updates to topics of interest is seen as being very desirable. FindFoward has taken this technology usually reserved for news and blog sites and applied it to its SERPs. You can now receive RSS updates on search queries entered into FindFoward.
Interland Finds Search Engine Marketing Best For Small Businesses Small business web hosting company Interland has released the findings of its Spring 2004 Business Barometer of Online Activities survey. The survey tests online usage by small businesses with Web sites. The results found that online marketing is the preferred method over traditional marketing tools.
Converseon Launches Publish Search Engine Marketing Solution Digital communications agency Converseon has developed a search engine marketing solution designed for the publishing industry. The service is called PublishSEM.
Atomz Wins Codie Award For Best Enterprise Search Engine Atomz, a provider of enterprise web applications announced that it received the "Best Enterprise Search Engine" award at the 19th Annual Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Codie Awards Gala held in San Francisco this week.
Nick Berg Video Leads Search Engine Queries The gruesome beheading video of Nick Berg has become the most queried item in search engines, according to Terra Lycos' Weekly Top 50. The site which initially aired the video, Muntada al-Ansar, was 3rd on Lycos' list.
Overture To Launch Local Search Ads Yesterday's Piper Jaffray Technology Conference saw Overture discussing its plan for the near future with its search engine advertising business. Among the items discussed by Overture's General Manager David Karnstedt was the introduction of its local search product this quarter.
Dogpile Updates RSS Enabled Toolbar Search engine Dogpile has released the latest version of its toolbar. According to a Dogpile representative, "the upgraded toolbar includes new functionality that provides even more timely and convenient access to users' personalized lists of RSS and Atom feeds."
AskJeeves Expands Smart Search To Include Current Movies The AskJeeves search engine contains a function called smart search. Smart search was designed by Jeeves to offer detailed, relevant information included in search engine responses. AskJeeves has expanded this option to include current movies.
Gmail Swap Site Launches A site that allows users to exchange goods and services for Gmail accounts has launched. The site, called GmailSwap.com, gives those who are interested a portal where swaps can be conducted. GmailSwap is no way affiliated with Google, obviously.
Man Arrested In Google Stock Fraud Pleads Guilty Shamoon Rafiq, who was arrested for scamming people with a false Google stock sale, has plead guilty to wire fraud. Rafiq was arrested for attempting to sale bogus, pre-IPO Google stock. He faces 51 to 63 months worth of jail time.
Google Issues Cease And Desist To Orkut Geomapper Google is very protective of its Orkut online community. Its terms of service page is replete with rules and regulations concerning member use. One of the rules, "using any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any portion or the orkut.com service," has been violated, causing Google to issue a cease and desist decree.
iProspect Releases Search Engine User Attitudes Survey Findings A survey conducted by iProspect has found that search engine click-through behavior can be predicted by gender, education and other factors. Meaning that by knowing the characteristics of your target audience you can improve and impact an online marketing campaign.
Trademark Dispute Causes Geico To Sue Google And Overture Ever since Google and Overture have allowed competitors to bid on trademarked keywords, legal trouble have not been far behind them. Google is facing lawsuits in Europe and the US because of its trademark policy. Add auto insurance company Geico to the list of companies that have filed suit for improper trademark use.
SEO Services Spur Growth For TopRank Online Marketing TopRank Online Marketing, a Minneapolis based search engine optimization and web site marketing consulting service has announced the addition of 5 new clients, attributing to the growth of the company.
Google Jumpstarts AdWords Search engine Google has launched a new service to accompany their AdWords program. This service, called Jumpstart, was designed in order to assist customers in creating and customizing an ad campaign.
Google Prepared To Make Gmail Changes Ever since Google announced the launch of its email service, Gmail, the search engine has seen no end to criticism and discussion surrounding their proposed method of scanning incoming emails for the purposes of ad placement.
Family Of Googol Inventor Would Like A Word With Google The word that Google based their name on, Googol, was invented by Columbia University professor Edward Kasner. The term means 10 to 100th power or a 1 with 100 zeros following it. With Google's 4 billion and growing web index, their name's association with Googol is increasingly appropriate.
DoubleClick Buys Search Engine Marketer Performics Internet-based ad company DoubleClick has announced its intended purchase of Performics, a search engine marketing company. The deal is expected to be worth $65 million with DoubleClick paying $58 million in cash. The remaining $7 million will come from future earnings.
Google Somewhat Lifts Oceana Ad Ban Environmental group Oceana appears to have had a Google-issued ban of its AdWord campaign lifted. Partially. The search engine has allowed the group to display an ad praising Royal Caribbean cruise lines for its clean up effort. Although, in the same stroke, Google denied Oceana from displaying ads calling for other cruise companies to follow Royal Caribbean's lead.
Kelsey Group Conducts Study On Local Advertising Effectiveness The Kelsey Group conducted a study that studied the effectiveness of local advertising in vertical digital directories.
BoardReader Searches Internet Forums And Message Boards With more and more information turning up in message boards, having a search engine that concentrates its search on forums seems like a no-brainer. The stated goal of BoardReader is to "allow our users to search the 'human to human' discussions that exist on the Internet."
Yahoo To Increase Email Storage In a response to Gmail and its highly publicized storage capabilities (1 gig), Yahoo announced that they would be changing the amount of storage it offers its members.
Yahoo And Google Remove WhenU From Their Search Indexes WhenU, a company that has been accused of employing spyware tactics, has been removed from the search indexes of the internet's 2 biggest search engines, Yahoo and Google. WhenU was removed for using cloaking methods to improve their search engine ranking.
Canada Ripe For Search Engine Ad Targeting A study by comScore found that Canadians web users performed many more searches than their American counterparts. According to comScore's test, "approximately 85 percent of the Canadian Internet population conducted at least one search at the top engines each month, compared to 73 percent of the U.S. population."
Yahoo Spells Out Future Of Yahoo Search With a stated desire to build the world's best search engine, Yahoo announced their plans for the future of Yahoo Search. Currently, Yahoo is working on 50 different projects for its search. Yesterday, speaking at the company's analyst day, Yahoo outlined it goals for the future of Yahoo search.
Ask Jeeves Reveals Plans For Interactive Search Holdings Now that Ask Jeeves' acquisition of ISH is complete, the number 5 search engine has stated what it plans to do with the web properties that it gained during the purchase. The buy gives Jeeves control over Excite, iWon, My Way, My Search, My WebSearch, and the MaxOnline ad network.
Citysearch Search Engine Secures Deal With Overture Citysearch, an engine for local searches in cities in the United States and abroad, has signed a deal with Yahoo-owned Overture to integrate Overture's sponsored search listings. These listings will appear in areas where Citysearch has available ad inventory such as home services, professional services, and medical specialists.
Google Begins Featuring Image Ads In AdWords In a surprise to many experts, Google has begun offering image based ads to their AdWords clients. This new format of Google ads will, like all AdWords/AdSense campaigns, be contextual targeted.
Plaxo Contacts To Feature Yahoo Search Contact management software creator Plaxo has announced that their newest version of their Contacts software, 2.0, will feature Yahoo Search capabilities. The software integrates with Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express. Yahoo Search will be the first search utility to be featured in a Microsoft email client. Plaxo Contacts 2.0 is due out in May 2004.
Google Groups Hit By The Redesign Update Bug Google has been on a role as of late. The company, just this year, has: launched Gmail, filed for its IPO, redesigned Blogger.com, added a slew of functions to their search options, began including images into their ad program, and now has launched its redesign/re-imagining of Google Groups. It's obviously been a busy year.
Search Engine College Launches Offering classes in search engine optimization and marketing, Search Engine College has launched its web presence. Located in New Zealand, the courses SEC offers are completed online. SEC is owned by WebRank LTD and is managed by SEO expert Kalena Jordan.
CNN And SI Now Powered By Yahoo Search Yahoo Search has replaced Google as the search engine of choice for CNN and SI.com. Previously, the sites in question were using Google's search engine. Suddenly, Yahoo appears to be on a hot streak in the search industry.
Web Shopping Search Engine Use Jumps During Mother's Day Web users were out enmasse this past Mother's Day weekend. Nielsen//NetRatings released a study that showed the amount of traffic to shopping-based search engines rose, in some cases, as much as 91%. The study also found that nearly 13 million unique visitors used online shopping directories and search engines.
Cell Phone Q&A Service To Challenge Search Engines IssueBits.com, a telecommunications information company, has created a question answering service called Any Question Answered. The service was designed to help customers find answers through text messages. AQA differs from search engines in that you receive an answer to the question you posed, not a list of links that may have the information you seek.
AskJeeves Receives "Best Business Turnaround" Award The 2004 American Business Awards have been handed out, and a familiar search engine has received one of the more prestigious awards. AskJeeves.com was awarded the "Stevie" for Best Business Turnaround, beating out companies like Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Covad Communications, My Family.com and Aerco International.
Follow-up On DoubleClick Click Rate Ad Survey Yesterday, WebProNews reported on a survey conducted by DoubleClick that indicated internet-based ads have had an increase in click through rates. The largest click through rates came from rich media ads, which received a click rate of 1%.
AOL Exercises Google Stock Option Internet service provider America Online exercised an option to buy 7.4 million shares of Google's preferred stock. As reported by WebProNews, AOL's purchase comes as part of a 2002 agreement between the two internet companies.
Does Google Not Count Links From Links Pages One way to ensure a good ranking on Google's SERPs is to have a number of links from other websites pointing to your site. Google gives PageRank to sites that have a number of links pointing to them.
Google Blog Edited By PR Yesterday, May 11, 2004, WebProNews reported on Google launching their official blog. This came on the heels of the search engine re-launching the updated Blogger.com. The second post ever of Google's blog spoke about the negative press surrounding outsourcing and Google's opening of a research and development facility in Bangalore, India.
Gmail Marking Yahoo Group Emails As Spam Adding to the list of complaints about Gmail, it seems that emails coming from Yahoo's Group community is marked by Gmail as spam. This time, however, users aren't complaining, but rather, agreeing.
Google Launches Google Blog Following on the heels of the Blogger.com facelift, Google has launched a blog of its own. Promising "insight into the news, technology, and culture of Google," the search engine intends to use the blog to keep people posted on the "latest word direct from the Googleplex".
Yahoo And Google Count Ad Revenue Differently Keyword advertising accounts for much of the revenue that search engines Yahoo and Google receive. Google has stated that 90+% of their earnings comes from its AdWord service. As a whole, keyword advertising took in 35% of internet ad revenue generated during the last fiscal year.
Hot Banana And SitePosition Partner For CMS Search Optimization Content management-generated web pages are often absent from search engine results pages. A number of pages that are created in automated format lack certain attributes that play large roles in search engine rankings.
DoubleClick Releases Study Of Click Rates, Effective Ad Styles DoubleClick has completed a study of advertisements that they serve in order to learn more about click through rates of ads. The study discovered that rich media ads receive the largest amount of clicks.
Intelliseek Launches BlogPulse.com Joining Technorati and Daypop, Intelliseek has launched BlogPulse.com, a search engine designed to seek out blogs. Intelliseek's offering is designed to help users search the heavily populated blog world.
Verizon SuperPages Allows Advertisers Self-Service Advertisers who have accounts with Verizon's SuperPages can now manage their campaigns themselves. Though self-service with Verizon costs $10 a month, companies that advertise through SuperPages will now be allowed to manage their ads and the logistics associated with self-service.
Iraqi Abuse Photos Number 1 Searched Keyword On Lycos Terra Lycos is reporting that the number 1 searched keyword on its search engine was Iraqi prisoner abuse photos that appeared first on 60 Minutes II. Lycos features a weekly top 50, and according to the braintrust of the search engine, this is the first time anything related to the Iraqi war has made the top spot.
Google Launches Blogger Overhaul Sporting a new design and many new member features, Google-owned Blogger.com has been relaunched.
Google Prepping New Technology For AdWords Clients Keyword sales accounted for 35% of advertising revenue generated 2003. Search engine leader Google receives an estimated 95% of its revenue from keyword ad campaigns.
Ebay Leads Online Shopping In Number Of Visitors A report on online shopping rankings by Nielsen/NetRatings indicates that online auction house eBay leads in the number of visitors to its site. Not only that, but eBay also leads, by a huge margin, for the amount of time visitors spent on a shopping site.
Google Quietly Acquires Ignite Logic Google's legally enforced "quiet period," a result of their IPO filing, may have stifled news of a purchase search engine leader Google has made.
Survey Finds Google Advertisers Want Lower Rates For Gmail Ads According to a survey completed by Mosaic Media, 57.1 percent of Google AdWords advertisers want their ads to appear contextually in Google new email service, Gmail.
Grokker 2.1 Features Google Results Visual search software producer Groxis has announced the release of the newest version of their software, Grokker 2.1, which features Google's API. Freely available to all Grokker 2.1 customers, the Google plug-in provides Groxis' customers with visual access to Google's search results.
CNet Re-Launches MP3.com MP3.com was relaunched today by CNet.com. The site, instead of offering users the ability to purchase or downloads mp3s, is now more of a resource/search engine for music lovers.
AskJeeves Completes Interactive Acquisition In a move that is expected to double their search engine market traffic, AskJeeves announced the finalization of their purchase of Interactive Search Holdings. Terms of the agreement calls for Jeeves to pay $144 million in cash and to issue 9.3 million shares of common stock to Interactive.
Is The Google Honeymoon With The Press Over? Since its launch in September of 1999, Google's non-portal interface and relevant search results have predominantly received positive coverage from users and press members alike.
Is Google Wanted For Murder? A blog run by deepquest posted a humorous look at Google's sudden(?) domination of the search engine industry. The post says Google was arrested while attempting to dispose of AltaVista's "body."
Tacoda Systems Launches Behavioral Ad Product Tacoda Systems is currently testing a method of behavioral ad targeting that combines Google AdWords-style targeting and profile-based advertising. The service, which is being tested by four unnamed publications, is called Audience Match.
UCmore Offers Enlightened Search On Toolbar Search engine toolbars have become a very popular item, giving users the ability to search from their browser without actually visiting any particular search engine. All major search engines offer a toolbar of some sort, with this design in mind.
Google Secures Search Results And Ad Rights To Dutch Portal Marktplaats BV, the Netherlands' largest portal for want ads, has signed a deal with Google to provide AdSense ads and search engine results. Google won this deal in competition with Overture.
They’re Baaaack OR How The Google JewWatch Controversy Just Won’t Die JewWatch is back. Back as in being the number 1 search result for the keyword "Jew". After a couple of weeks of the index page not being crawled and not showing up in the SERPs, JewWatch has reclaimed the top spot.
German Search Site Wants Google In Court Claiming that Google violated the terms of an injunction issued from a Hamburg court, German meta search engine metaspinner has "vowed" to take the search engine to court. The dispute once again comes from Google's trademark policy.
Cinco de Mayo Graphic Follow Up Yesterday, WebProNews reported that Google disappointingly had not produced a graphic to commemorate the Mexican holiday.
AskJeeves And Teoma Now Index PDF Files AskJeeves, which uses the Teoma database for its reults, now has PDF files showing up in their SERPs. Pages that are in PDF format have text [PDF File] next to the listing to differentiate from regular html documents.
Google Opens Indian Research And Development Facility Google is set to begin operations in one of its research and development facilities located in Bangalore, the technology capital of India. This is the third R&D facility that Google owns outside of the US. The other two facilities are located in Switzerland and Japan.
Gambling Ads Sidestep Google Filters As reported in WebProNews earlier, search engines Google and Yahoo have decided to ban online casino ads from appearing on SERPs. The ban was to go into effect at the end of April. However, it appears that some of the casinos have found a way to "cheat" the filters Google has put in place.
OneStat Confirms Google Position As Top Search Engine Web analytics provider OneStat released a report that ranks which search engines are used the most, as well as the percentage of user share growth. OneStat's report also lists the 7 largest search engines.
SocialGrid Looks To Change Google Into Free Dating Service As search engines look to expand their role in the web universe; Google with Orkut, Yahoo with HotJobs, SocialGrid.com is looking to make Google into an online dating service using tools already available to the search engine. SocialGrid does this by having users insert searchable metadata tags into their personal web pages.
Google AdSense Revenue Distribution The main source of Google's revenue comes from their AdSense programs. In fact, 95% of the search engine's revenue stems from its ad programs. Users have often wondered what percentage of the this revenue goes to Google and what goes to the AdSense publisher.
Cinco de Mayo Design Absent From Google Logo Google has always celebrated popular holidays by altering their logo's design to include something topical about the holiday that is being celebrated. Today is May 5, 2004, otherwise known as Cinco de Mayo, and Google's logo is noticeably missing any decoration to celebrate the Mexican holiday.
Yahoo Toolbar Includes Ads And Other Portal Features Like most reputable search engines, Yahoo offers a toolbar that gives users the ability to search the web without their browsers pointing to Yahoo Search. However, Yahoo.com is not merely a search engine, it is also a portal. Because of that, Yahoo is offering portal-like features on the latest version of the their toolbar.
Search Engine Users Find Natural Search Results Most Relevant A survey conducted by iProspect found that more than 60 percent of Yahoo users and over 72 percent of Google users clicked on a natural search results when looking for the most relevant listing for their query. Natural search results are non-advertisement listings that are returned when a keyword is queried.
Group Creates Search Engine Marketing Organization A group of search engine marketers from Dallas/Fort Worth have created a search engine marketing organization in order to help local businesses with marketing and optimizing their sites for search engines.
Google Expansion To Include $250M Tech Upgrade When filing for its IPO, search engine Google was required to disclose its financial information, by order of the SEC. This information contained Google's revenue history and its profit margin from the revenue they took in. The disclosure also revealed what Google intends to do with a portion of its profits.
Google Finds Religion It appears has though Google has obtained deity status, at least in the eyes of Reverend Peter Olsen. Founder of the Universal Life Church, Olsen has created another online church called The Universal Church of Google.
Google Plans To Outsource AdSense Billing 95% of Google's revenue comes from their AdSense/AdWords services. Last year, the search engine made $962 million in 2003 revenue and $106 million in profits. On April 30, 2004, Google filed with SEC to offer its stock to the public. In the long filing, Google laid its financial information, as well as some of the company's key risks.
Google Denies Goldman Sachs From IPO Search engine Google dropped Goldman Sachs as an underwriter for their upcoming IPO. Goldman Sachs was removed from consideration based on Google's claims that the investment bank acted in a manner that angered them.
Quality Of Life Adds Search Engine To GoldEntertainment Website Coinciding with the increase of its inventory, Quality of Life Marketing, Inc. announced the launch of Video Search Engine, a comprehensive tool that will facilitate title and star searches online. The new search gives users the ability to search subsidiary site GoldEntertainment.com
Overeager Buyer Pays $262 For Gmail Account On Ebay Ever since Google launched the beta for their email service Gmail, there has been much controversy swirling around. Gmail's privacy practices, the amount of storage Google offers, and deletion of unwanted files have been discussed.
Yahoo Powered Ujiko Search Engine Launches Packed with features not regularly found in other search engines, Ujiko.com has launched a Yahoo-powered search engine. Part of the Kartoo metasearch network, Ujiko boasts a crawled database of over 4 billion pages.
Google Ads Boost AOL Revenue Parent company Time Warner reported that America Online ad revenues increased by $27 million, a benefit of AOL's partnership with everyone's favorite search engine, Google. The partnership calls for Google to display search result ads within AOL's searches.
LookSmart Acquires NetNanny Search engine LookSmart announced yesterday that it had acquired the rights to NetNanny for approximately $5 million in cash and stocks. NetNanny is an online filter used for filtering out websites that have questionable or adult content.
T-shirt Company Denied Google AdWords Campaign Y-Que, a T-shirt company located in Southern California, has had its AdWords campaign cancelled by Google because of the keywords the company selected to use. Y-Que believes that the basis of Google's cancellation is a move to stifle free speech.
Profero Begins Large Ad Campaign For Search Engine AskJeevesUK A new online ad campaign launched by Profero, located in London, England, is highlighting search engine AskJeeves.com in an effort to have web-users rediscover AskJeevesUK and its "find engine." The campaign is designed to sway people into making AskJeeves their first choice in search engines.
Mooter.com Signs Deal With Overture For Search Ads Australian search portal, Mooter.com.au, has signed an agreement with Yahoo-owned Overture to provide pay-per-click search engine advertising. Mooter will display the sponsored listings beside their own.
Google Finally Files IPO Search engine Google finally ended mountains of speculation by filing their initial public offering today, April 29, 2004. This means that Google's stock will now be available to the public, although the stock isn't expected to be available for a few months.
Google Founders Expected To Keep Control Search engine Google, in light of their recently announced IPO, have installed a safety net to ensure the founders keep a degree of control. Co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page own 33% of Google's Class B stock and have developed a voting structure that would let them keep the control of their creation.
Google Names Yahoo and Microsoft As Significant Competition In the Form S-1 that Google filed with the SEC this afternoon, the search engine names the companies with whom it has the most competition with. Calling the competition "formidable," Google gave names to the search engines it thinks will give Google the most competition.
Terra Lycos Looking To Sell Lycos Portal Wanting to concentrate on their Spanish language businesses, Terra Lycos has retained the services of Lehman Brother investment bank in an effort to sell its US-related businesses. This appears to include web portal Lycos.com.
Google Image Search Adds New Feature Google has added a new twist to the Google Image Search (GIS). When you search for topical keywords, Google not only returns pertinent images, but it also features images based on related topics from Google News.
Gmail Compatibility Issues The news concerning Gmail has had a negative bent lately. Google's email service faces questions, complaints, and privacy filings concerning the placement of contextual ads within incoming and outgoing emails. Add compatibility questions to the mounting Gmail criticisms.
CrossRef Launches Google-Powered Crossref Search Calling themselves the "citation linking backbone for all scholarly information in electronic form", CrossRef has launched a Google-powered search engine called CrossRef Search. This engine allows users to search the full text of many types of scholarly documents.
Google Tops In Search Engine Driven Ecommerce Market intelligence firm RandomSecrecy.com has compiled a report on Google, giving a detailed market analysis. The report shows that Google has the top position in the Search & Buy e-commerce market.
Digital Impact To Start Marketing Service For Search Engines Digital Impact, an email marketing service, has announced plans to start a search engine marketing service. The service is expected to begin in the 2nd half of 2004.
More Companies Launch Contextual Ad Networks Tacoda Systems and aQuantive, Inc. have decided to throw their respective hats into the lucrative contextual ad industry. The difference that these companies offer is that they are behaviorally targeting their ads. In other words, the companies are directly targeting users, not just web pages.
Google Returns Fire At Digital Envoy Digital Envoy, a geo-targeting service, on or around March 30th, filed a suit against longtime client Google. The suit claimed that Google has misused Digital Envoy's technology to deliver sponsored search results.
Nutch-based ObjectSearch.com Launches Aiming to provide users with best search results, free website submission and unbiased website ranking, ObjectSearch.com has launched an open source search engine based on Nutch.org's search. ObjectSearch looks to solve problems related to search result manipulation and information overload.
FindWhat Finds Revenue Increase Keyword advertising service, FindWhat.com has released its financial information for the 1st quarter of 2004, which ended on March 31st. The company had a 56% increase from last year's earning and is currently $2.7 million dollars ahead of its projected 1st quarter earnings.
Yahoo CEO Says Internet Big Enough For Google And Yahoo Yahoo CEO Terry Semel isn't worried about search engine Google's approaching IPO. Semel feels that the most anticipated public offering in years won't hurt the web's leading portal.
Google Has Options When Filing Anticipation of Google filing their IPO has hit a fever pitch. Originating from the news that Google must reveal their financial information in accordance with SEC rules, the finance world is expecting Google to file an IPO at anytime.
Google's JewWatch Controversy Continues Has Google manually intervened on the results of the keyword "Jew"? As reported here, this particular keyword search's top result was JewWatch.com, a site considered by many to be anti-Semitic.
New Yahoo Messenger Includes Search Today Yahoo debuted the beta version of their newest instant messenger, version 5.6. Yahoo's newest version includes all types of bells and whistles, including new avatars and a stealth mode to hide you from certain users.
Google IPO News It seems that Google is getting closer to filing their IPO. The IPO is expected to value Google at around $20-25 billion dollars. Plans for the search engine's public offering have been kept quiet to the point of being secret. Although today, April 26, 2004, comes news of Google making a deal with two investment banks to underwrite the offering.
Google In Court Over New AdWords Policy Google's newest policy concerning bidding on trademarked slogans for AdWords purposes has come under fire. French insurance company AXA has filed suit against the search engine for allowing others to bid on keywords that AXA has trademarked.
Google Redesigns Their Israeli Site Google recently redesigned their Google.il site to include Hebrew text around the Google logo. Keeping with Israeli/Hebrew convention, all of the text, including the results and the search box, read right-to-left.
Google AdSense Serving PSAs Speculation about whether Google's ad server working or not has come up. The reason for the questioning is because people have found a larger than normal amount of Google public server ads (PSA) where regular AdSense ads should be appearing.
Google IPO Looming According to many financial news outlets, Google is set to announce its plans for their IPO "within days". The initial report came out of The Wall Street Journal, and the speculation about Google's IPO comes from the search engine having to open its financial books up for the SEC.
Anti-Defamation League Praises Google Search engine Google has received praise from the Anti-Defamation League for responding to the result rankings of extremist websites. The issue comes from JewWatch.com, an Anti-Semitic site, being the top search result for the keyword "Jew".
Moreover Moves Its Feed Service Moreover, a news feed aggregator, has moved their service to FeedDirect.com. This move was made so Moreover can more easily manage the websites who contain the company's news feeds.
Russian Internet Portals To Offer Email With Unlimited Storage Russian Internet portals Yandex.ru and Mail.ru have announced they will be launching email services that will have unlimited storage for its members. Each company will be offering their email services for free.
IBM Upgrades Enterprise Search Engine Computer giant IBM is preparing the release of its upgraded enterprise-level search engine. The project, code named "Masala," is an upgraded version of its previous tool, Information Integrator.
California Senator Submits Anti-Gmail Bill Continuing the California Senator Challenges Gmail story that appeared here, Senator Liz Figueroa has drawn up a bill that would require member consent in order to place contextual ads within Gmail mailings.
Some Bloggers Allowed Gmail Account There has been no official announcement of when Google's new email service, Gmail, will be available. Google is currently beta testing Gmail in order to fix any bugs and to tweak Gmail based on user requests.
Google Awarded Rights To Froogle UK Domain Google has secured the rights to Froogle's UK domain name. Froogle.co.uk had been cyber-squatted by LWD Internet, an e-commerce solutions provider. The company registered the domain when Google launched Froogle.com, Google's shopping search engine.
Yahoo, Sina Joint Venture 1Pai Accused Of Database Theft 1Pai.com.cn, a Chinese auction house jointly established by Yahoo and the Sina Corporation, has been accused by rival auction house Taobao.com of stealing database information. Yahoo China has stated that they would let the joint venture fight back without their help.
Search Engine Ad Revenue Up 35 Percent Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released the Final Full-Year 2003 Internet Ad Revenue Figures, and the report has revealed that ad sales across the Internet has risen 21% from the previous year. The biggest jump, however, was in keyword sales.
Yahoo Trying New Look For Search Results Rugles.com has reported on a new look for Yahoo's search engine results. Complete with a screenshot of the new look, the Rugles report states that the results page comes with collapsible menus instead of tabs.
Tickle Launches People Search Tickle.com, a social network, has launched Tickle People Search. This feature was designed in order to "provide Tickle's members with targeted introductions to new friends, romantic partners and business contacts, as well as qualified referrals to products and services."
InfoSpace And Google Extend Result Agreement InfoSpace, Inc. announced today that the company has extended its agreement with Google in order to provide search results and AdWords ads for InfoSpace's web search properties. The agreement, which began in September 2002, has been extended until 2006.
Yahoo Japan Online Ad Profits See 64% Increase Yahoo Japan, the country's largest online portal, according to FinancialTimes.com, reported that its profits more than doubled in the latest financial year. The main reasons for the boost are Yahoo Japan's online auction presence and its online ad revenue.
Adding RSS Search Results To My Yahoo Yahoo is in the process of beta testing a new service that allows users to add RSS feeds to their My Yahoo page directly from their search results. Once the link is clicked, the user is taken to a confirmation page that has an example of who the feed will look.
Google To Set Up Research And Development In Japan According to AsiaTimesOnline.com, Google is planning to establish a research and developmental center located in Japan by June of 2004. The facility will be responsible for refining Google's search software to make it more user-friendly for the Japanese.
Walla Communications Plans 1 Gig Email The Gmail repercussions are being felt throughout the web industry. The controversy caused by Gmail placing ads in emails, the allowance of large attachments, and of course, the 1 gigabyte of storage have all been discussed in great detail.
Yahoo Improves Image Search Thanks to an email from a Yahoo representative to WebProNews editor Garrett French, we have learned that Yahoo has upgraded their image search.
RealPlayer 10 To Include Google Toolbar RealNetworks announced today, 04-20-04, that version 10 of the company's downloadable RealPlayer will have Google's Toolbar bundled in with the player.
ForumZilla Launches Forum Search Competition in the search engine business is fierce. There are 3 major companies vying for the top spot, with a few smaller companies biting at the big engine's heels. To innovate within the search industry is to develop niche search engines.
AskJeeves Becomes Hotter Commodity With search engine AskJeeves seeing it's stock rise 8% to $39 a share yesterday due, in part, to Wall Street accolades, the search engine has become an attractive search engine to the big guys.
Open Source Search Engine Seeking Ideas OpenIndex, a website looking to develop an open source search engine index, offers a communal place for ideas and pointers on index development.
Follow Up To Google Keyphrase Suggestion Testing As reported here, by courtesy of Rugles.com, Google was testing a new feature based on keywords. Similar to Google recommending a word when a searched word is misspelled, the keyword recommendations took a keyword and suggested the "most popular" related terms.
Privacy International Continues Gmail Complaint Filing Watchdog group Privacy International, having already done so in the UK, filed a privacy complaint against Google's Gmail in 17 European countries, as well as Canada and Australia.
MSN Sandbox Highlights Search Features Eager to capitalize on the growing search engine industry, MSN, Microsoft's web portal, has launched Sandbox. Sandbox is the testing ground for MSN technologies designed to provide a broader search engine presence.
Google May Be Forced To Open Books A 1934 Securities and Exchange Act may force Google to reveal their financial records by the end of the month. The rule in question states that companies with over 500 stockholders and $10 million in assets must divulge financial results.
Furl Offers To Save, Share, And Recall Anything Found Online Mike Giles, previously of Vitria.com, has created a site/utility that takes bookmarking websites to a whole new level, the level of personalization. As the search industry and the web as a whole moves towards personalization, Furl is offering a web application that has the idea of a personalized web at heart.
Google Gains Rights To Google.ru Cybersquatting is a common occurrence in Russia. Internet laws were slower to develop and because of that, there have been numerous incidents where international corporations have found their namesake URL domains already taken.
Search Engine Loyalty Drives Industry The results of iProspect's Search Engine User Attitudes Survey, which focuses on search engine loyalty, have been released. These results paint a clear picture on search engine usage, popularity, and how users are loyal to their engine of choice.
Google Testing Keyphrase Suggestions Google has a spell check feature that most users are aware of. If the keyword you are searching is misspelled (carz instead of cars), Google with recommend what it thinks is the correct spelling.
Googlebombing Of Jew Keyword Continues As reported here yesterday, April 15, 2004, the fight to knock JewWatch.com out of first position for the keyword search of "Jew" is picking up.
Google To Offer Locally Targeted Ads Google has launched a local ad service that will allow clients to determine the geographic regions their ads are shown in. This move is another step in Google's embrace of the local search industry.
Google Responds To Jew Watch Controversy Prominent search engine Google has been embroiled in a controversy surrounding search results for the keyword "Jew." As reported in WPN, the search of the word "Jew" yielded a results page with JewWatch.com as the number one listing.
RocketInfo Re-Launches News Search Engine RocketInfo, a business information solutions provider, has re-launched its own news search site called RocketNews, complete with RSS service.
Massachusetts Upset With Proposed Microsoft Search Engine Microsoft's proposed entry into the search engine industry has caused a negative reaction from the state of Massachusetts. The state feels that Microsoft's entry into the search engine industry could be a violation because of the company's dominant market position.
One Word Searches Yield to Multiple Word Searches More and more, people are using multiple words when they perform Internet searches. The frequency of single word searches has reduced significantly.
Gmail Open To Changes, Perhaps Opt-in For Ad Placement Intense criticism from privacy groups concerning Google's email service Gmail have led to Google considering changes to some of Gmail's practices. The main issue is the scanning of all emails for keywords in order to place contextual ads.
Yahoo Gets Their Waffles Bombed In the spirit of the "miserable failure" bomb that hit Google, Yahoo has been hit with a bomb of its own, showing once again the relative ease with which search engines can be manipulated with the keywords in links.
Google Chooses Dublin For European HQ The US-based search engine Google has found a base of operations for its excursion into the European market. Google has decided to make its European headquarters in Dublin. The area is a former Gasworks site that is located in the dock area of the city.
Thomson Gale Database Free For All Thomson Gale, an information and education service provider has announced that during Library Appreciation Week (April 18-24) it will allow free access to over 20 different databases.
UK Privacy Issues Cleared For Google Google's new email service Gmail, source of much criticism based on ad placement procedures, may be getting some good news. As long as UK users are not being deceived by this practice, Gmail should be clear of its legal issues.
California Senator Challenges Gmail Senator Liz Figueroa (D-Fremont) has written a letter to Google questioning the intentions of Gmail, the search engine's new email service. Her issue with Google concerns the placement of AdWords within incoming and outbound emails.
FAST ESP To Power Uchida Spectrum Uchida Spectrum, which offers software license sales and management services, announced today that it would be employing FAST Enterprise Search Platform into SMART/EBP, its e-business architecture.
InfoSpace To Power Copernic Site Search Copernic, an information technology provider, announced that it would be partnering with InfoSpace Distribution, a private-label search platform.
Google Search Augments Eudora 6.1 The latest release of Qualcomm's Eudora mail client now features Google search. Eudora incorporates Google's search into a toolbar that will allow you to search both Eudora and the Internet.
SurfWax News Search With the proliferation of news available to Internet users, news searches have become an essential tool for finding headlines that interest you. SurfWax.com has developed an innovative way of searching news.
Google To Search Scholarly Papers Search engine Google is teaming up with a number of universities to implement searches of academic papers, essays, and more. As of now, the partnership is with MIT and 16 other universities.
Open Source Search Engine mozDex Launched An open source search engine called mozDex has launched its beta search engine. mozDex uses "open source search technologies to create an open and fair index."
Google Revises Trademark Use As pointed out by Aaron Wall over at SearchEngineJournal.com, Google is changing their approach in their handling of trademarked keywords for their AdWords program. Before, companies were not allowed to bid on keywords that were trademarked by other companies, like the "Just Do It" phrase by Nike.
Gmails Bounced By Other Email Services Google's new email service, Gmail, has sparked controversy amongst privacy activists because it will place contextual based ads within emails by first scanning the content of the email.
Findory.com Streamlines News Search Working through the huge amount of news available online can be a daunting task. Findory.com agrees that the amount of news available is mountainous and has launched a site that addresses this issue.
GoogleRace 2004 Want to see how the presidential candidates are doing in Google? How about seeing where they "rank" with the issues? GoogleRace 2004 provides users with the ability to see where their favorite presidential hopeful ranks using keyword searches.
Sergey’s Past Dragged Out In Google Looks like one the Google brain trusts enjoyed his college days much like the rest of us.
Mesothelioma Generates Ad Revenue For Search Engines Asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma has become one of the hottest words in search engine keyword advertising, costing as much as $90 dollars per click in some cases. Considering that most search engine ad words cost around $1 a click, mesothelioma is clearly the industry leader in price per click.
Gmail Requires The Least Personal Info A review by Fury 3.2 of what personal information MSN, Yahoo, and Google require for email membership was revealing.
Yahoo Doubles Profits, Announces Stock Split Yahoo released its 1st quarterly report for this fiscal year, and the news for the web's most popular portal was filled with superlatives. The newest report shows that Yahoo more than doubled last year's first quarter profits.
Lycos Changes To Inktomi Database Lycos has altered the content of its search results. Instead of continuing to use AlltheWeb's (or FAST's Web Search) database, Lycos' searches are now powered by Inktomi and LookSmart.
Google News Typo Delivers Shifty Results A recent search on "Mac" in Google News brought an interesting letter omission from one result. This brings a question to mind: does Google monitor the content of their results?
Search The Web Using Sketches Software firm Imaginestics has licensed a new search technology that allows you to use a sketch as a "keyword" to search the web. Developed at Purdue University, the software allows users to search millions of database entries based on 3 dimensional objects.
Google Prepared For Microsoft Challenge The battle lines for search supremacy have been drawn. Google, the presumed search engine leader, is gearing up to ensure that their search engine is versatile enough to endure.
Google's Gmail Faces Trademark Issue The rollout of Google's new email service, Gmail, may have hit a snag. The Market Age, a smaller British company, claims they already have trademark rights for the name "Gmail", and have been using it since June of 2002.
Privacy Complaint Filed With EU Over Gmail Google's launch of Gmail has hit a potential snag when a privacy group filed a complaint with British authorities claiming that Gmail violates EU's privacy standards.
Email Marketers Question Gmail Ads As the ripples of Google's Gmail announcement spread, questions about Google's placing of targeted ads within emails are rising. The privacy issue is still prevalent, however a new concern has surfaced.
AskJeeves Adds Features To Compete With Search Engine Giants AskJeeves has rolled out a number of new features designed to give you more targeted search results.
Spymac Gives 1 Gig Of Email Storage A Mac-based Web hosting company is following Google's email lead. Spymac announced they would be giving away 1 gigabyte worth of email storage to its members.
Vibrant Media Debuts New(?) Ad Campaign Vibrant Media, a contextual keyword advertising company, announced the availability of a new product, IntelliTXT. Vibrant's product allows users to generate contextual advertising that appears as highlighted links within the content of the site.
Online Gambling Sites Respond To Ad Ban A decision by Yahoo and Google to ban online gambling ads has created expected repercussions from some of the casino site owners. Understandably, the owners who commented are not pleased with the gambling ad ban by the two search engine giants.
Mamma.com Probed By SEC Citing volatile trading, the SEC has launched an informal probe concerning the activity of Mamma.com's stock. Stock prices for the Canadian-based search engine have quadrupled in the past month.
Yahoo And Google Stop Gambling Ads In a move likely to hurt online gambling sites, search engine giants Yahoo and Google have announced that they will no longer serve ads from online casinos. The two search engines expect the ads to stop running by the end of April.
Yahoo Adds Popup Blocker Yahoo has added popup blocking to its downloadable utility, the Yahoo Companion Toolbar. Similar to other search engine toolbars, Yahoo's toolbar gives users easy access to the portal's search engine technology.
Yahoo Upgrades Email For Some A day before Google announced GMail, Yahoo sent out emails to some Yahoo Mail users offering them account upgrades consisting of larger storage and the ability to receive larger attachment files.
BellSouth Announces Google Enhancements BellSouth, which serves local, long distance, Internet and wireless customers in the United States, has announced that their portal page will now feature Google-powered searches. In addition to search capabilities, Google will also make targeted advertisements through its AdSense/AdWords program available to BellSouth users.
Overture Extends Agreement With CNN Yahoo owned Overture Services, a provider of Internet marketing services, extended its search agreements with CNN.com and ESPN.com. In addition to extending its existing deals, Overture has also signed an ad distribution agreement with Wall Street Journal Online.
Froogle Use Grows It appears that Google's redesigned index page is paying dividends. Last week, Google promoted a link for Froogle, Google's shopping search engine, to its home page. This promotion has resulted in more traffic for Froogle, according to a study by Hitwise.
Google Alters Ad Pricing An announcement from Google concerning the pricing of their AdSense campaign may lower the price of ads that Google places on web pages. Google stated it would be adjusting its prices for these advertisements.
Kelkoo Buy Boosts Yahoo European Traffic 12% Yahoo's purchase of Kelkoo, Europe's largest online comparison-shopping service, has increased the amount of European visitors the web portal's site by 12%.
GMail Screenshots Surface Coming off the buzz of March 31st announcement of Google's GMail and the subsequent "is-it-a-hoax-or-not" hubbub, screenshots of the controversial service have begun appearing around the Internet.
Google Blocks RSS News Feeds Google has filed a cease and desist order to stop RSS news feeds from using Google News as a source for headlines. The motion was filed against a programmer from Britain, named Julian Bond, who created the php script that crawls Google News.
Knight Ridder To Deploy FAST ESP Fast Search & Transfer announced today that Knight-Ridder Digital, Inc. has signed to begin use of FAST ESP (Enterprise Search Platform) for its online classified search.
Ask Jeeves Removes Banner Ads From UK Search UK's third largest search engine, Ask Jeeves, is discontinuing the use of banner ads on their UK search site. In the United States, the company stopped use of these ads during January of last year.
MineTech Works To Eliminate Random Queries International data solutions and marketing company MineTech announced today the launch of a new search engine that eliminates users having to query endless streams of batched data delivered by popular keyword-based search engines like Google.
Google GMail April Fools Hoax? In what could be an elaborate hoax, Google has announced they are launching GMail, a free email service. Boasting a storage amount of 1 gigabyte per user, Google's goal is to give enough storage so that users won't have to dispose of any emails.
Ask Jeeves Strips Down For Users Making sure they don't miss out on the April 1st fun, Ask Jeeves has "revealed" itself to users. Appearing in a wife-beater and boxers, Jeeves is having what is referred to as a "wardrobe malfunction".
New Google Wristwatch Debuts 4/1/4 Get ready for the Google Search Engine Watch. This will give users access to Google search from their wrists.
Google GMail Is No Hoax In response to the buzz surrounding its GMail launch, Google's founders have said that GMail is NOT a hoax.
Newsmap Visualizes Google News By taking GoogleNews headlines and converting them through a Treemap algorithm, Newsmap.com has brought the content at GoogleNews to life, visually.
Topix Increases Local News Sources As major search engines work to include local searches and news, Topix.com, a site devoted to local news from around the country, has nearly doubled the amount of local news sources it crawls, from 3600 to 6000.
Interchange Introduces Local Direct SearchBox Interchange, a company that provides paid search listings and results, has launched its newest tool, the Local Direct Searchbox. This tool will provide paid local search results to users while giving webmasters the opportunity to generate paid search revenue.
WordTracker's Latest Top Searched Words Weekly, WordTracker releases the top searched words taken from various metacrawlers. These words are stored in a database that features over 300 million searched terms.
Google Cannot Find Canada This week, Google launched its redesigned site that included many new features integrated into the search engine. One such addition is Google's personalized search.
Google Dominates Search Referral Market Share Google's hold on the search engine market continues. In a report released by WebSideStory.com today, it was revealed that Google is the highest-ranking search engine in terms of search referral market share.
Digital Envoy Files Suit Against Google An unfair business practice and misappropriation of trade secrets suit has been filed against search engine giant Google. Digital Envoy, a company that targets ads to consumers, is responsible for the filing.
Overture Introduces Ads For UK Mobiles Soon, mobile phones in the UK will be displaying advertiser sponsored search engine-style links. Overture, a Yahoo owned company that sells text link ads, announced a deal with two major mobile phone companies, Vodafone and France Telecom-owned Orange, to bring these ads to mobile phone users.
Searchable Database Of Criminal Fiction Crime Fiction Canada, a searchable database that covers crime fiction, film, and television from all over the world, is now available.
Google Launches Redesign A major salvo has been fired as the fight for search engine traffic rages on. Today, Google has announced the launch of three new search features, as well as a redesigned index and results page.
Google Personalizes Search As search engines fight for dominance, search result relevance has become a crucial battleground. Users want search engine returns that relate to the topic being searched.
Web Alerts From Google This week, Google introduced a service that emails news and updated results based on user-determined topics of interest.
Dogpile Updates Toolbar, Features News Feed Search This week, Dogpile launched an updated version of its search toolbar. The newest version now features an RSS "ticker" designed to give users the ability to track their favorite news source. Atom's news feed service is also available to Dogpile toolbar users.
Yahoo Acquires Kelkoo Moving to solidify their position as the web's largest portal, Yahoo announced they would be purchasing European Internet shopping portal Kelkoo.
InfoSpace Buys Switchboard InfoSpace, an Internet search and directory company, announced on Friday that it would be acquiring rival Switchboard. The terms of the acquisition are for $160 million, with the deal expected to be complete by the end of 2004.
Jopit Launches Search Engine for Job Seekers The full-scale launch of Jopit.com, a niche search engine designed for online employment and recruitment began this week. Named a "job engine", Jopit.com looks to unite job seekers and recruiters in an effort to streamline the hiring process.
MSN To Launch New Ads, Not New Search Engine MSN stated that in July they would only be launching a new method of displaying their paid search ads instead of a new search engine. This corrects information from our recent article MSN Sets July Date For New Search Engine.
GlobalSpec Introduces The Engineering Web GlobalSpec, a specialized search engine and online resource for engineers announced the launching of the "The Engineering Web" earlier this morning. The launch comes after major site enhancements.
Another Googlebomb Explodes Googlebombing, the act of compromising search results using external links, has exploded close to its namesake. There have been a few famous Googlebombs recently (weapons of mass destruction, miserable failure, etc). This time, the executives of Google are the targets.
MediSeeker.com Offers No Frills Medical Search Well-developed niche search engines offer a more refined search based on a particular topic. MediSeeker.com offers a search engine that not only specializes in medical search results, but also aims to reduce search result clutter.
The Future Of Google Voice Search Speech Search, available in pre-beta stages at Google Labs, is an attempt to give users the ability to search Google through a voice interface. Speech Search gives users who are not at a computer the ability to search for driving directions, restaurant information, and even the aisle location of an item in your local supermarket.
Reuters Fights Content Theft In a move worthy of the RIAA, news giant Reuters announced it would begin tracking copyright violations of its content using Fast Search & Transfer's (FAST) software. FAST is a developer of enterprise search and real-time alerting technologies.
Google Faces Stiff Competition There are many players in the battle for search engine supremacy. Google, Yahoo, and MSN are the biggest, with each company seeking a dominant position in an industry that is considered to be one of the fastest growing ever.
Google Privacy Issues Richard M. Smith, former CTO at the Privacy Foundation told GlobeTechnology.com, "I think Google is the biggest privacy invader on the planet, no doubt about it."
Google Launches New Deskbar Google has released a new beta version of its utility, the Google Deskbar. The version number now stands at 0.5.81.
GuruNet Brings Answers To Your Fingertips If combing through page after page of search engine results isn't your cup of tea, GuruNet.com may have an answer for you. GuruNet for Windows, one of four products GuruNet.com offers, gives the ability to find answers with a simple ALT-Click.
Google Sued Over PageRank A man in Southern California is irate over the results of "Googling" his name. Mark Maughan, certified public accountant of the Brown & Maughan firm, believes the search results for "Mark Maughan" contained "alarming, false, misleading and injurious results."
Yahoo Launches Enhanced Yahoo Autos Today, Yahoo launched Yahoo Autos offering consumers a new way to search for comprehensive automotive content online. The site was designed based on consumer and advertiser input.
Lycos Introduces HotBot Desktop Today, Lycos announced the launch of the HotBot Desktop search toolbar. The HotBot Desktop allows users to search the web, giving the results in a browser window.
FindWhat Partners To Expand B2B Search FindWhat.com, a provider of performance-based marketing and commerce, has announced that it is partnering with Thomas Global Register to provide a marketplace listings service using FindWhat.com's private label service.
MSN Sets July Date For New Search Engine Microsoft has reported that it will launch a new search engine for its MSN portal starting in July. MSN's goal is to challenge Google and Yahoo for search engine supremacy.
Google To Include Orkut Network Google revealed its intention to integrate Orkut.com, an online social network, into its search engine.
AOL Secures Google Shares America Online, a major Internet service provider, has been given the right to buy 1.9 million preferred shares of Google stock. This venture comes from a deal made in June 2002 between the two giants, as reported by AOL in a recent SEC filing.
Channel Tracking Now in Google Adsense As part of Google's upgrade of Adsense, the search engine giant has modified the ability in which Adsense users can track the results of their ads.
Yahoo Releases Webrank Yahoo announced that it was releasing a web page ranking tool. Similar to Google's PageRank, Webrank is integrated into Yahoo's newest version of their search toolbar, called Yahoo Companion.
EU Initiates Project SEKT The European Commission is spearheading an effort to improve the overall quality of Internet searching. The hope is that search engines will approach the overall depth of information with a more "human" approach.
Yahoo Introduces Sports Score Search Sport scores are now easier to find on Yahoo. By typing in the name of the team you are interested in, followed by the word score (team name - score) and pressing enter.
Jewish Groups Concerned Over Google Results Searching the term "Jew" on Google has brought up some disturbing lead results. The number one listing is the anti-Semitic site, JewWatch.com.
MSN Alters Search Ads MSN has announced that they are going to start labeling their paid search-listings more clearly. MSN is attempting make their ads more search term relevant.
Microsoft To Buy AOL? Time Warner executives discussed the potential sale AOL with Microsoft in recent months, and Time Warner lawyers believe that antitrust issues will be minimal claims The New York Post.
China Shuts Down Blog Sites Chinese officials have closed two popular blog sites used by its citizens, citing objectionable blog content. Many of the blogs openly question China's government policies.
Fast Search Speeds Up Enterprise Research Fast Search is hitting the search market hard with their software, Fast Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), designed to assist enterprise businesses as they try and sift through mountains of information.
Google Brands Adsense Ads With Graphics Google has started branding their Adsense Ads with Google graphics. This news has caused some interest in Google AdSense users.
New NannieBots ''Search'' For Pedophiles There is new software that can now detect pedophiles attempting to lure children in chatrooms. Called ChatNannies, the software creates thousands of nanniebots that log onto different chatrooms and initiate conversations.
Yahoo! Canada Introduces Bi-lingual Search Yahoo! Canada has launched a bi-lingual search portal. Canadians may now toggle from the English to the French version.
Introducing Google Local Today, search engine giant Google announced the integration of local-area search results into Google's own with the launch of Google Local.
Yahoo!’s News Search 2.0 Begins Beta Testing Yahoo.com has introduced Yahoo News 2.0 into the beta testing stage. News Search searches topics collected from the online news sources that Yahoo!'s search engine has indexed.
InteractiveCorp Buys TripAdvisor It was revealed in a recent announcement that InterActiveCorp is buying the travel search engine TripAdvisor. InterActiveCorp, based Manhattan, is using this purchase to increase its growing Internet presence.
Overture Europe Changes Leadership Overture Services, an Internet search firm, has promoted Stephen Taylor to the managing director for Overture Europe. The move replaces Nick Hynes, the man responsible for launching Overture in the UK.
MetaCarta Makes Geographic Search Easier Geographic Text Search (GTS) makes finding geographic sensitive information much easier. Released by MetaCarta, GTS is designed to find and organize search results based on a region of interest that the user indicates.
eBay Makes Links More Search Friendly In an effort to make it easier for search engines to read content, eBay has announced they are changing the format of their link structure of their eBay stores.
Man Arrested In Google Stock Fraud FBI officials recently arrested a Dutch citizen in New York for allegedly selling $2.8 million worth of bogus Google stock.
Organize Your Search Results Keeping track of research done using Internet search engines can be a difficult process. Onfolio, a company located in Cambridge, Mass., has released software designed to simplify this task.
Yahoo! Not Immune To Sex Parodies In a Booble-esque move, YaSEXHoo.com started a sex search site that emulates Yahoo!'s search engine.
55 Million Europeans “Google” According to a report from Nielsen/NetRatings, over 55 million Europeans use Google as their search engine of choice, giving the search giant another large foothold in a non-American region.
Mamma.com Receives Boost From “Maverick” Investor A Securities and Exchange Commission filing reported that Mark Cuban, the energetic owner of the Dallas Mavericks, has claimed a 6.3% stake in Mamma.com.
What Google Thinks Of You Googlism.com, a company in no way affiliated with Google, has launched a website that lets you find out what Google thinks about you.
Google’s Image Database Surpassed? Internet Security Systems, Inc. is claiming to have passed Google has the largest image database in the world. ISS, a web-content filter company, stated their filtering software recently added the 1 billionth image to its filter database.
Oracle Sees Solid Sales Oracle announced on Thursday a 9% revenue gain for the third quarter, while net income grew 11% to $635 million.
Yahoo Finally Drops Google in Asia Pacific Yahoo! has boosted the competition in the search industry even higher by dropping its partnership with Google in Australia and New Zealand.
LookSmart Credits Partnerships, MSN for Increased Growth LookSmart released their revenue forecast for the first quarter on Thursday, March 11, 2004. They raised their first quarter revenue estimates from $16 to $21-$23 million.
Yahoo! and BT Create UK VoIP-Messaging Hybrid Yahoo! is combining forces with British Telecommunications to create a new call management platform based on Yahoo! Messenger.
America Online, EarthLink, Microsoft and Yahoo! Sue Over Spam "Today is a red-letter day for big-time spammers, and the letters they should remember from this day forward are 'CAN-SPAM,'" said AOL Executive Vice President and General Counsel Randall Boe.
Topix.net Takes Local Search a Step Further News aggregation site Topix.net officially launched Monday, boasting 150,000 pages of topical news in strong contrast with Google News's eight pages.
Yahoo's SmartView Adds Visualization to Search Internet media leader Yahoo! announced today its SmartView Technology, a mapping tool taking web content searches to the next level.
Local Search Threatens the Yellow Pages Alan Meckler, Chairman and CEO of Jupiter Media and creator of Internet.com, spoke at the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York this week.
Lycos Founder on Venture Capitalism Bob Davis, a partner with Highland Capital Partners, offered his insight into the world of investment banking during a presentation at last week's Search Engine Strategies conference.
Forrester: Google to Weaken as War Rages With search engine competition spreading like fire across the Internet terrain, Forrester Research, Inc., predicts Google's grasp on the search industry will weaken.
SEM Growing Faster Than Projected Safa Rashtchy was a speaker during the "Swimming with the Sharks: What You'll Get From VCs and Investment Bankers" session at this week's Search Engine Strategies conference.
The Paid Inclusion Crisis The debate over whether paid inclusion programs will reduce search result quality is spreading like a wildfire but the search engine getting the blunt of its burden is Yahoo.
Ask Jeeves Buys Excite.com The ongoing search engine war just got more interesting.
Don't Underestimate Search Advertising During this week's Search Engine Strategies conference it was stated that search engine marketers currently make up 22% of the people buying online advertisements, often bidding on thousands of search terms with million dollar budgets.
The Site Match Stink Apparently, there was a big stink during one session yesterday when Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan pulled Yahoo's Tim Mayer up onstage to discuss Site Match.
The Future of Search: Google in the Brain? At this morning's Search Engine Strategies session, Google's Craig Silverstein shared his vision of the future of search.
The Google-Yahoo Competition Today's Search Engine Strategies session titled "the Future of Search" brought representatives from Google, Yahoo, AOL and AskJeeves into the same panel.
Greg Jarboe Talks Yahoo! Search Greg Jarboe, President and co-founder of SEO-PR, revealed to WebProNews yesterday some insight into the new Yahoo! Search.
The Search Engine Wars Begin Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's Keynote speech yesterday was entitled "Search Wars."
Will 2004 Mark the End of Google’s Empire? Survival of the fittest can easily be applied to the search engine industry.
The Tension Between Google and Yahoo! With the launch of Overture's new Site Match product, Yahoo has plunged yet again into the search engine spotlight…
An Interview with Yahoo WebProNews held an interview with Yahoo representative Tim Mayer at last week's Webmasterworld PubConference in Orlando, Florida.
Google Changes the Affiliate Industry "Google AdSense has changed the affiliate industry."
AdWords: A Commercial Haiku If you're looking for an AdWords supporter, look no further than Ted "Tedster" Ulle, a site administrator for the popular online forum WebmasterWorld.
Coming Soon to a Yahoo Near You As searchers become more sophisticated, the search engines are forced to evolve to keep up with the changing times.
Google Answers User Questions During a session at the WebmasterWorld Publisher's Conference yesterday, Google representative Matt Cutts took some time to answer questions from Google users and forum members.
WebmasterWorld to be Sold? Brett Tabke, owner of the successful online forum WebmasterWorld, denied this week that he currently has any plans to sell the popular forum.
Paid Inclusion Tips and Tricks One important aspect of paid inclusion is determining whether or not your site makes a good candidate.
The Fight Over Tight Affiliate Control Yesterday's Performance-Based Marketing session at the DMA/AIM net.marketing conference struck quite a passionate debate regarding how much control companies should have over branding and affiliates.
WebmasterWorld PubConference Live Report Webmasterworld's Publishers Conference VI has begun and WebProNews is reporting live from the scene in Orlando, Florida.
85% of Search Terms Untapped? People are only optimizing for a small fraction of available search terms, according to a statement made by Overture's Dan Boberg.
DMA Sends Spam Warning "The government will regulate what the industry does not," warned DMA CEO and President H. Robert Wientzen at today's DMA Conference in New York.
Building a Brand Online Customers don't necessarily recognize the differences between channels, noted Travelocity CEO and President Michelle Peluso.
CNET Stays One Step Ahead CNET Networks, a leading global media company, added sparks to the DMA/AIM net.marketing conference earlier today.
Marketing is Just a Game CNET's gaming industry portal GameSpot covers over 7,500 products and has over one million users per day.
Advertising is Changing CNET CEO and Chairman Shelby Bonnie believes advertising is fundamentally changing and the mindset of what marketing is needs to change along with it.
Live on the Scene at DMA This is a time of enormous change in American advertising, says David Verklin, Chief Executive Officer, Carat North America.
Online Branding Really Works When you buy an online advertisement, you're paying for online branding, not just clicks.
Proctor & Gamble Teaming up with eBay? There are whispers that Proctor & Gamble will be teaming up with online auction giant eBay in the near future.
Oceana Fights Back Against Google Ban Google, one of the Internet's leading information portals, has silenced two advertisements placed by Oceana, a company trying to save our world's oceans.
Google Still Rules as Search Evolves 39 percent of Americans used a search engine during January 2004, reports Nielsen/NetRatings, the global standard for Internet audience measurement.
Event Turns Spotlight on Blogging, RSS This week's DEMO 2004 conference, the world's launchpad for emerging technology, shined a spotlight on RSS and Blogging products.
Yahoo! Search: You’re Gonna Pay Yahoo! has officially - and finally - broken free from its Google chains and launched its own algorithmic search technology.
Moreover to Power MSN Newsbot The world's most popular Internet destination is trying to gain a stronger foothold overseas.
The Former Empire Strikes Back A fire is burning in the search engine world.
Study: There is Hope for Email Newsletters A study by Neilsen Norman Group (NNG), which was co-founded by usability expert Jakob Nielsen, has shown that many email newsletter subscribers are beginning to understand the difference between their newsletter subscriptions and unsolicited email known as spam.
Google Announces 6 Billion Item Index Google, the search engine named after the mathematical term for a very large number ("googol"), announced today that it has expanded its index to include 6 billion items.
A Hot News Trend in Search Advertising News sites are also catching onto a hot new trend: using paid search advertisements to hook readers and reel them in.
The Next Big Thing in Online Ad Revenue To buy or not to buy? That is the question when it comes to paid search advertising.
Are Your Emails Getting Blocked by AOL? Could the world's leader in interactive services be blocking your emails?
There's Something About 'Brandy' Some experts are wondering if the worst is over in regards to Google's latest update, which has already been dubbed "Brandy."
Vivisimo Grabs the eBay Mop and Bucket Vivisimo is boldly going where no leader in clustering and meta-search software has gone before.
Will Google Survive? Back in the ‘90s, when the Internet was a new and virtually (pun-intended) unexplored frontier, four names dominated the world of search: Yahoo, Intomi, Excite, and AltaVista.
Lycos to Become Global Connection Location The Spanish-American "global Internet powerhouse" known as Terra Lycos unveiled yesterday the world's first Internet network designed specifically for the creation of relationships. In the months to come, a new system will be gradually introduced, developing Lycos into a leader in connecting people around the world.
Google Causes Blogger Uproar Much to the upset of users, Google's web log service chose to use the new Atom technology instead of the popular Really Simple Syndication, which is favored by many blog services including LiveJournal.
The Future of Paid Search Advertising The future is looking bright for the paid search advertising industry.
Study Shows Record-Breaking Online Ad Sales In 1996, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) began tracking interactive advertising revenue.
Should VeriSign Resurrect Controversial Search Service? VeriSign is reconsidering its "Site Finder" search service, the Washington Post reports.
VeriSign to Digitally ID Children Today, VeriSign plans to unveil a program that would offer digital identities to children. VeriSign already plays a huge role on the Internet as it is the leading provider of infrastructure services and is responsible for managing the dot-com and dot-net domains. The California-based company has also recently been a source of controversy due to recent criticism of its "Site Finder" search service, which makes money off online users' typing mistakes.
Forrester: Google Worth Far Less Than Speculated Forrester has shot down recent speculations that rumors of Google's unconfirmed IPO will raise the company's value to over $15 billion.
Google Prepares to Battle Microsoft in Search Wars Sources say Google is taking the necessary steps in preparation for its upcoming battle against Microsoft for dominance over the search engine industry.
Will China Be Google’s New Fortune Cookie? Does the Far East hold good fortune for Google? The king of all search engines is about to find out.
FindWhat.com to Merge with eSpotting After over a year of discussion and delays that stretched anticipation for months, FindWhat.com, a leader in performance-driven marketing, has finally signed an amended merger agreement with eSpotting Media Inc., which was voted "Best European Paid Placement Service" by Search Engine Watch Awards.
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