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Google Goes Public – Files for IPO
Google Inc., filed to raise as much as $2.72 billion in an initial public offering (IPO) that will give the company more funding to compete...
AOL Shows Strong Earnings with Help from Google
Time Warner’s America Online turned in a better than expected performance in the first quarter of 2003 with a little help from paid search and...
Yahoo and Verizon Partner for Wireless Yahoo Messenger
Yahoo Search Portal and Verizon Wireless today announced that Yahoo Messenger is now available on Verizon Wireless’ Mobile IM service. Starting today, Verizon Wireless customers...
New Google Reranking and Other Search Engine Patents
Search Engine Related Patents A Selection of Recently Awarded Search-Related Patents & Recently Published Search-Related Patent ApplicationsGoogle is awarded another U.S. Patent. New patents for...
Google Search Engine Drives eCommerce Industry
A recent study deemed Google the leader in search engine driven ecommerce. According to a report released by Random Secrecy today Google’s dominance in the...
Dealing With Search Engine Stress
As a member of several search engine optimization forums, and I have recently noticed (especially since Yahoo recently decided to try their hand at competing...
Lycos Search Portal May Be Up For Sale
Lycos may be up for sale soon and available for acquisition by Google, MSN, Ask or Yahoo – if they want it. Terra Lycos is...
AXA takes Google AdWords to French Court over Trademarked Terms
Google’s AdWords advertising sales for trademarked names and competitive business terms is being challenged again in the court room, this time in France. AXA, the...
Search Engines Influence Consumer Research
The majority of North Americans use search engines for consumer research states a focus group research product undertaken by the search marketing firm Enquiro. The...
Yahoo Adds Search and New Features to Yahoo Messenger
Today Yahoo announced the newest public beta version of the Yahoo Messenger service. Yahoo Messenger continues to drive innovation in the instant messaging marketplace by...
Open Source Search Engines Give Non-Commercial Alternatives
Recently, as commercial search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, and MSN Search are escalating their reach of web surfers while growing stronger by...
Possible Google IPO – Is it Evil?
Ok folks, time to open your wallets, call your brokers, or join an online trading site. If you missed out on the big Internet stocks...
Yahoo Japan Sells 100 Million eMacs on Pricing Error
An error possibly due to an XML shopping feed between Yahoo Japan’s shopping engine and computer retailer Catena led to a $1,100 discount on Apple...
AOL Joins Google, MSN & Yahoo in the Search Engine Toolbar Club
AOL this week introduces the AOL toolbar for both subscribers and nonmembers which opens AOL more so to the public than ever before, giving toolbar...
The new “Google operating system”
As most of you know, the Windows operating system is the most popular and the most utilized personal computer operating platform in use today, and...
Search Engines Going Loco for Local…But When Will Small Business Get Real?
Local search is a subject that’s generated lots of interest lately. Let’s review: Google Goes Local The search engine giant recently released Google Local, which...
State Senator Drafts Bill in Wake of Google Gmail Complaints
Google GMail and other free email services are now the target of legislation introduced by Californian State Senator Liz Figueroa, who has drafted a bill...
People Search Engine Launched by Tickle Social Networking
Tickle Inc. today announced the launch of Tickle People Search, the first Internet search service that gives you relevant web results and links you to...
Planning a Search Engine Marketing Budget
Search, the Financial Frontier : Planning Search Budgets Search started cheap. Years ago, search engines figured their profit would come from two unique angles, advertising...
Yahoo Mail Fixes Security Flaw, Was Open to Account HiJacking
Yahoo Mail was open to hacker attacks due to a file size bug. ZDNet reports that a flaw in the Yahoo Mail system could have...
Yahoo China’s 1Pai.com.cn Accused of Database Theft
Yahoo and Sina Corp’s joint venture, 1Pai.com.cn, was accused yesterday by Taobao.com, a domestic online auction company, of stealing information from its database. The People’s...
Google Wins Rights to Froogle UK Domain – Froogle.co.uk
Google has won ownership of the domain name froogle.co.uk, which was registered in the UK by a web hosting company – LWD Internet. Google alleged...
Ask Jeeves Shows Positive Earnings Due to Advertising Revenue
Ask Jeeves Inc. registered earnings that topped financial expectations by Wall Street and raised its quarterly and full-year forecasts, citing increased Internet traffic and web...
Yahoo Japan Follows Yahoo With Doubling Net Profit
Yahoo Japan Corp, said on Wednesday its net profit more than doubled since Q1 of 2003 and it forecast further strong growth, thanks to its...
Search Engine Strategies Conference Heads to Canada
Jupitermedia Corporation today announced that its inaugural Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo 2004, will be held May 11 – 12 at the Metro Toronto...
Google and InfoSpace Extend Search & Advertising Partnership
Google and InfoSpace today announced that they have extended their agreement to distribute Google search results through InfoSpace’s network of Web search properties and partner...
WebCrawler Search Engine Turns 10 Years Old
WebCrawler, probably the most bought and sold search engine on the web – and one of the first, celebrates its 10th birthday today. WebCrawler was...
Google Partners with RealPlayer for Toolbar Distribution
Google and RealNetworks announced today that the Google Toolbar is being distributed with RealPlayer 10 downloads. Now, not only Googlers will have the Google Toolbar...
Yahoo Showboating New Yahoo Search Technology
The new Yahoo Search Technology isn’t only being used on Yahoo for run-of-the-mill web searches. Like they have done with adapting Overture Ads to most...
MSN Newsbot Search Engine Get Personal
Microsoft’s MSN portal launched Newsbot last year, a fine effort of indexing and making news stories searchable in the shadow of Yahoo and Google News....