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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....
Privacy International Files Complaints Against Google GMail
Google Gmail is still in the Privacy Watchdog doghouse with Privacy International filing complaints with privacy and data-protection regulators in 17 countries in Europe, Canada...
Broadband Used By 68 Million Americans
Broadband is the online choice for over half the Internet users in the US. According to a survey of 2,200 Americans over 18, released Monday...
Search Engine Optimization for Secure Server Pages and Dynamic URLs
Search engines do have the ability to spider secure-server-hosted pages, but often these pages require either that a visitor fill out a form or log...
Google Experimenting with Search Keyword Suggestions
Google has helped me on many occassions. I admit it, I’m not the perfect speller. And sometimes, my keystrokes may be a little bit to...
Researchers Develop 3D Search Engines
We’ve seen the future of search engines and they will not be powered by solely words. According to AP wires, computing researchers at Perdue and...
Why writing for the Web is different than in print
As you sit down and start thinking how you are going to write the content for your new website, or if you are contemplating a...
Google Starts Regionally Targeted AdWords Advertising
Google today will introduce the next chapter in Google AdWords Advertising, the ability for U.S. and international advertisers to target Web surfers by their city...
Google Gmail – User Review and Preliminary Impressions
Google GMail has been the talk of the search advertising and privacy hounds for over two weeks now and before printing anymore stories on GMail...
Google Allowing Bids on Trademarked Names
Search engines work on word and character association. That’s a fairly obvious simplification of how an extremely complex algorithm can detect a topic or theme...
Amazon’s A9 Search Engine Launches
Amazon has staked its plot in the search engine neighborhood by knocking on the doors of Yahoo, MSN, and even Google with its A9 Search...
Internet Users Loyal to Their Search Engines
In a study released today by iProspect, 56.7 percent of Internet users use the same search engine or directory when they are looking for information,...
Yahoo Beefs Up DSL Video Offerings with CinemaNow Partnership
Subscribers to Yahoo’s SBC DSL service will now be able to watch movies online while paying a simple one time fee thanks to a partnership...
Copernic and InfoSpace Partner for Search Engine Technology
Copernic today announced an agreement with search engine company InfoSpace, Inc., to offer Copernic’s Enterprise Search indexing technology for site search through InfoSpace’s network of...
Google May Change GMail Advertising Model Due to Complaints
The complaints against Google’s GMail and its use of AdWords Contextual Advertising to show text ads targeted to actual email content may have driven Google...
Yahoo and eBay Targeting China’s Online Market
Yahoo and eBay are targeting their online auction growth efforts on a likely fast growing Internet market, China. Yahoo announced on Tuesday it was on...
Google GMail Facing Heightened Privacy Obstacles
Google is facing yet more privacy obstacles on the path of introducing its Google GMail free emailing service to the masses. The big privacy controversy...
Yahoo & Google Follow Government Pressure on Gambling Ban
We Bet it won’t be Found on Google or Yahoo… The US Justice Department is serious about its crackdown on online gambling. Last year they...