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[2004-05-27] 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.
[2004-05-27] 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.
[2004-05-26] Total Sports Online Launches Megasoccer Search Engine
As part of its Megasearch Project, a project that makes use of the Fast Search & Transfer search technology, Total Sports Online ASA has launched MegaSoccer.com, a "topic-specific" search engine devoted to the world of soccer.
[2004-05-26] Vividence Study Reveals Google Has Most Traffic, Least Ad Clicks
A study conducted by Vividence, a market research firm, examined how people interact with search engines. The study, which Vividence released the findings of yesterday, May 25, 2004, found that search engine use and search engine ad click through rates do not necessarily correlate.
[2004-05-26] 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.
[2004-05-25] 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.
[2004-05-24] 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.
[2004-05-24] Kanoodle Partners With 24/7 Real Media To Provide Behaviorally Targeted Links
Kanoodle Inc., a provider of sponsored links for SERPs and content pages has announced a partnership with 24/7 Real Media to provide behaviorally targeted sponsored links. The partnership will make use of Kanoodle's BehaviorTarget network and is expected to launch by the end of the 2nd quarter, 2004.
[2004-05-24] 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.
[2004-05-21] Amazon CEO Stands To Benefit From Google IPO
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com, was one of the first five outside investors into what was a fledgling start-up search engine named Google. Bezos made his investment in 1998, and the result of his support was that Google entitled him to an undisclosed amount of stock at 6 cents a share.
[2004-05-21] 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.
[2004-05-21] Polish Search Engine NetSprint Launches Search In Lithuania
Following the search engine trend set by Google and perpetuated by competition sweeping the industry, Polish search engine NetSprint has decided on Lithuania as the next area for its operations. The company has launched a search engine for the country with an index of 2.7 million pages or 90% of Lithuanian sites.
[2004-05-20] 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.
[2004-05-20] 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.
[2004-05-20] 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.
[2004-05-20] 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.
[2004-05-18] Lycos Offering 1 Gig Storage For Paid Email Members
Incorrectly claiming to be the first to offer this service, Lycos has announced that it will be offering 1 Gigabyte worth of storage to members of its email service. The service will cost around 3.49 Pounds a month, or $6.31 USD.
[2004-05-18] 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.
[2004-05-17] Tools For Checking Backlinks To Your Site
What's the best way of finding all the existing links to your site? It's widely acknowledged that Google doesn't show all the links when you do a "link:www.yoursite.com" search. Dave Hawley said that Google confirmed to him that they only ever shows a sample of the links to a given site.
[2004-05-17] 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.
[2004-05-14] 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."
[2004-05-14] 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.
[2004-05-12] 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.
[2004-05-12] 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.
[2004-05-11] 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.
[2004-05-11] 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.
[2004-05-10] Google Launches Blogger Overhaul
Sporting a new design and many new member features, Google-owned Blogger.com has been relaunched.
[2004-05-10] 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.
[2004-05-07] 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.
[2004-05-06] 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.
[2004-05-06] 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.
[2004-05-06] 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.
[2004-05-06] 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.
[2004-05-05] 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.
[2004-05-04] 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.
[2004-05-04] 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.
[2004-05-03] 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.
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