Well-Off Use Google, the Poor Use Yahoo
Hitwise recently released some new data, which suggests that those in different income brackets have a tendency to use one search engine over another. What...
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Yahoo Video Gets a Makeover & New Site
Today the Yahoo Video Blog announced not just an update to Yahoo Video, but a complete overhaul and all-new site. Some of the new features...
Public Library of Law Search Engine Launches
On Wednesday, the world’s largest legal vertical search engine – Public Library of Law – launched in partnership with legal research provider Fastcase Inc. According...
Get Your Doodle on Google for a Day
You know how Google puts up a special, stylized logo on their homepage for various holidays and occasions? Well today Google announced a new competition,...
Microsoft Live Search Announces Improvements to Crawling
This week, Microsoft announced updates and improvements to the Live Search crawler, which they say will “improve the efficiency” with which they crawl and index...
Yahoo Mobile Service Aggregator oneConnect Merges Mobile IM, Mail, & SMS
On Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Yahoo introduced a new mobile service called “oneConnect” which is designed to aggregate contacts and communications...
Google Toolbar Hijacks Custom 404 Pages, Webmasters Not Happy
The latest version of the Google Toolbar replaces the custom 404 “Page Not Found” on the website you’re at with a Google version, which has...
Google Indexing Blogs Quickly
If you’ve launched a new blog at Blogger or WordPress, you might be wondering if or when Google might get around to indexing your site. ...
Ask.com Launches “BigNews” Social Media News Site
Ask.com has just unveiled the latest addition to their line-up of features – BigNews. As you can probably figure out from the name, it’s a...
Google close to launching music service in China
Two years after entering the Chinese search market, Google is readying to take another crack at the country’s top search engine – Baidu.com. Baidu has...
Yahoo Releases Zimbra 5.0 Featuring BlackBerry Support
Yahoo’s open-source alternative to Microsoft Exchange Server – Zimbra – has just released version 5.0 of their collaboration suite. If you recall, Zimbra was acquired...
MySpace Developer Platform Opens for Third Party Developers
On Monday MySpace announced the launch of their developer platform, and beginning today developers can begin building applications for use with the popular social networking...
How Did Super Bowl Advertisers Score on Search & Social Media?
In case you somehow escaped the news, the New York Giants took home the Lombardi trophy last night as the Super Bowl XLII champs. Next...
Zimbra Business Messaging System Could Be First Casualty of Possible Microsoft-Yahoo Merger
While a Microsoft takeover of Yahoo would most obviously impact consumers the most, it would also affect businesses. One of the first casualties of such...
Privacy Groups Ready to Oppose Microsoft Takeover of Yahoo
Google isn’t the only one concerned about a Microsoft takeover of Yahoo! Inc. After Microsoft announced on Thursday that they had sent a $44.6 billion...
Yahoo Rumored To Announce Acquisition of Video Start-up Maven Networks
According to TechCrunch, they’ve been tipped off that Yahoo! will be making an announcement sometime in the next day or so that they’ve acquired a...
Delver Introduces Socially Connected Search Engine
The quest for the next big thing in search is never-ending. Existing search engines are constantly revising and updating, and new search engines are popping...
Auction Bids Reach Google’s “Open Access” Threshold
It’s good news for Google and others who backed open access policies for the winner of the largest block of wireless spectrum in the Federal...
Yahoo, AT&T Expand Advertising Partnership
Yahoo! Inc. and AT&T Inc. announced Tuesday that they have signed a multi-year deal to share revenue from advertising on mobile phones and personal computers. ...
Google Overhauls Korean Search Engine, Adopting Universal Search
Wednesday morning, Google announced that they had done an overhaul on their Korean-language search engine, adopting universal search for the Korean site. Google is attempting...
Yahoo to Proceed with Mass Layoffs
According to Silicon Alley Insider, a source close to Yahoo is confirming that Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang will indeed press on with plans for an...
DotHomes.com : UK Property Search Engine Invades US Market
UK property search engine Dothomes is expanding its range of coverage to now include the lucrative U.S. market. Slightly less than two years after the...
Google Won’t Help Monetize Sites Less Than 5 Days Old
According to DomainTools, Google is about to stop monetizing domains that are less than five days old, effectively killing the practice of “Domain Tasting“. There...
Microsoft Patent Filing Reveals Ideas to Monitor Offline Behavior for Advertising Purposes
Earlier this month, Microsoft filed a patent application that presents a method of collecting information about users’ “cellphones, geolocation systems, credit card information” and other...
Google May Let AT&T or Verizon Win in Wireless Spectrum Auction Today
The hotly anticipated U.S. federal auction of mobile phone airwaves begins today, and some are speculating that Google – who famously announced their intentions to...
Roost Launches Real Estate Search Engine
General search engines like Google are great, but sometimes a more specialized search engine will get the job done much better. That’s the idea behind...
Google, Publicis Working Together on Digital Ads Technology
Google Inc. and Publicis Groupe announced Wednesday that they are working together on using technology to improve advertising. The two companies have already been collaborating...
Google to Offer Terabytes of Free Database Storage to Scientists
Google will soon be offering up terabytes of online storage for open-source scientific datasets, which will be housed at the domain http://research.google.com. Storage will be...
Yahoo & T-Mobile Sign Mobile Advertising Deal
One of the top mobile service operators in the U.K. – T-Mobile – has just announced a strategic partnership deal with Internet giant Yahoo! Inc....
Google Maps is Gaining Ground on MapQuest
According to new data from Hitwise, Google Maps is quickly and quietly gaining ground on the top-ranked map web site, MapQuest. MapQuest which is owned...