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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.
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