UN seeks better links between its peace missions in Africa Nov 20, 2009
You will now be redirected to our search engine. If you are not redirected within 5 seconds please click. (Yahoo News -- Pan-Africa)
Awards recognize innovation Nov 20, 2009
Silicon Valley, the launch pad of technology dynamos like the iPhone and Google's search engine, recognized innovations of a less flashy sort that may still prove to be game-changers. Images. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Law Firm Invokes Privacy Laws in Suing Rival Over Search Engine Keywords Nov 20, 2009
A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's ... Cannon's sponsored link appeared on Google and Bing, Microsoft Corp.'s search engine, but not Yahoo ... A search engine like Google places ads based in part on users' clicking patterns and on the advertiser's prepaid budget for a certain number of views. (Law.com)
What were your Top 10 internet moments? Nov 20, 2009
Google IPO (2004) Google's IPO, one of the largest in history, put the six year old search engine on the path to becoming the most dominant and influential company of the decade. From gmail and YouTube to Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Android, the Internet giant and constant innovator is the engine that powers countless aspects of our everyday lives. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Electronic Privacy Information Center: Privacy Nov 20, 2009
com's "AskEraser" search engine product, which has been criticized by privacy groups for reducing user privacy and failing to function as advertised. Information about the ability of the FBI to investigate Americans. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Google PC will start in seven seconds or less Nov 20, 2009
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif: New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for computers that do their work on the Web. Google gave the world the first peek at its Chrome OS four months after declaring its intention of developing the PC's main software, a move that pits it directly against Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc.. (India Times)
The next Twitter? It's Foursquare Nov 20, 2009
Google is undoubtedly the 800-pound gorilla, but the fastidiously numbers-driven search engine has proven time and again that it cannot grasp social-networking dynamics -- from Orkut to Friend Connect (its Facebook Connect competitor) to its failure to turn Google Video into a YouTube competitor. One company may unwittingly squash Foursquare in its infancy: Twitter itself. (CNN)
Should Web Search Data Be Stored? Nov 20, 2009
Most search engines record the terms users enter, along with the time of the requests and information on the computer used ... But the only way that'll work is if consumers actually have enough information about companies' practices to make rational choices about which search engines to use, and enough information about how the law protects their online privacy ... However, the DOJ's position is that ECPA doesn't apply to the search engines and search terms, the search engines themselves refuse... (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Privacy Debacle Hall of Fame Nov 20, 2009
Earlier this month AOL publicly released a data trove: 500,000 search queries culled from three months of user traffic on its search engine. The company claimed it was trying to help researchers by providing "anonymized" search information, but experts and the public were shocked at how easy it was to figure out who had been searching on what. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Yahoo to Allow Users to Opt Out of Custom Ads Nov 20, 2009
com, the search engine giant stores server log information like location, IP address, time and date, operating system, browser, and sometimes, unique cookie ID, Google said. There are no third parties involved in serving up ads on Google. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
iPhone apps run background checks on your date Nov 19, 2009
Lane says that like any search engine, "Stud or Dud?" will work better the more information you put into it. If "Stud or Dud?" is meant to be a comprehensive background check, the "Are They Really Single?" app is more tailored to answering the specific question of whether someone is either married or potentially in a long-term relationship. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
NetEase.com Reports Third Quarter 2009 Unaudited Financial Results Nov 19, 2009
In addition, NetEase has paid listings on its search engine and web directory and classified advertising services, as well as an online mall, which provides opportunities for e-commerce and traditional businesses to establish their own storefront on the Internet. NetEase also offers wireless value-added services such as news and information content, matchmaking services, music and photos from the Web which are sent over SMS, MMS, WAP, IVR and Color Ring-back Tone technologies. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Tax credit to steady, not rescue, shaky U.S. housing Nov 19, 2009
Following the tax credit extension, website traffic at real estate search engine jumped to record levels, increasing by 75 percent in the first week of November from a year ago. Few disagree that affordability is a major lure, with record low borrowing costs and home prices that have tumbled on average by about 30 percent from 2006 peaks. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
US election, iPhone among decade's top 10 Internet moments Nov 19, 2009
Google's IPO in 2004 put the search engine on the path to powering countless aspects of our everyday lives. Online video revolution in 2006 that led to a boom in homemade and professional content on the Internet and helped reshape everything from pop culture to politics. (India Times)
Google must stop snooping on us Nov 18, 2009
ONCE upon a time, back in the almost unimaginable days before Google was a household name and a search engine clicked by almost every computer user on the planet, three geeks were sitting in the company s modest office in California preparing to meet some possible new recruits ... It was also a handy marketing tool to differentiate their upstart search engine from Microsoft, embroiled in endless battles with anti-trust authorities in America and Europe ... On these terms, is it really evil for a... (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
New Source of Online Ad Revenue Nov 18, 2009
The figure, more than twice what the Kelsey Group had estimated last year, is particularly striking because search engines and Yellow Pages Web sites have done little until recently to give Internet users easy ways to find local businesses ... Google, which according to comScore Networks, a research firm, executes 35 percent of all Internet searches, last year introduced a test version of a localized search engine (http://labs. (Yahoo News -- Electronic Commerce)
Bing gains search market share, nears 10 per cent Nov 18, 2009
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Top doodler Du wins Google prize Nov 18, 2009
The Rydalmere East Public School student's entry, titled Australia Forever, was chosen from thousands in the search engine giant's competition. School children up to Year 10 around the country were invited to take part, doodling to express their "wish for Australia". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Drug industry presses FDA to allow more online ads Nov 18, 2009
In April, the FDA fired off warning letters to Pfizer Inc., GlaxoSmithKline PLC and a dozen other drugmakers for search engine ads that did not mention drug risks. The ads called sponsored links appear on the screen margins of sites like Google when users search for certain key words. (Yahoo News -- Pharmaceutical Industry News)
Google Rewrites Controversial Books Deal Amid Antitrust Concerns Nov 17, 2009
Academics, Google competitors and the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division because they said it gave the search engine an unfair advantage: Google would essentially have exclusive rights to the digital distribution of orphan works. If a competitor wished to do the same, it would risk lawsuits. (Law.com)
Coming events Nov 17, 2009
HOW TO GET YOUR WEBSITE TO THE TOP OF THE LIST, hands-on enhanced computer workshop by computer analyst Peter Kay, 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Nov. 24 at Waialae Country Club; topics: Google ranking, keywords, site structure, search engine marketing; sponsored by Smart Business Hawaii; members and guests $75, non-members and at-the-door payers $90, lunch and parking included; advance registration advised. www:smallbusinesshawaii. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Rules For Buying IPOs Are A Bit Different Nov 17, 2009
eIBD Investor's Business Daily Digital Edition. Access recent eIBD issues easily. (Investors Business Daily)
Short Circuits Nov 17, 2009
Microsoft is giving its MSN Web portal a long-overdue makeover and says it hopes the site will funnel more people to Bing, the software maker's search engine. Microsoft is ditching the heavy blue background and stack of tiny text and menus across the top that have defined msn. (Courier-Journal -- Business)
Listen, Watch, Read: Computers Search for Meaning Nov 17, 2009
The technology will not be challenging the industry leading search engines any time soon ... 5, 2009) Search engine technology is in a state of flux as it digs ever deeper for new ... VizSeek is one of the first search engines on the Internet to use a photograph, a 2D image, or a 3D model and transform it into a 3D shape. (Science Daily)
Cheaper fares, Web access draw many to bus travel Nov 17, 2009
According to the number of tickets sold over the summer through the bus ticket search engine BusJunction, which will not publicly release actual numbers, Megabus is the most popular bus line on the Boston-New York route, and the cheapest. BoltBus is the second most popular company on BusJunction, followed by Fung Wah, Greyhound, and Lucky Star. (Boston Globe)
What Are Web Surfers Seeking? Well, It's Just What You'd Think Nov 16, 2009
Some 35% of these questioners never clicked on an answer, though I am not sure what even the best search engine could have done with a question like, "How to find your eye color.". How good is the Web at actually answering questions. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Search site aims to rival Google Nov 16, 2009
Former workers at the web giant Google have launched a rival search engine ... But analysts believe the new search engine, like many others, will struggle to match and defeat Google ... "The time may be right for a challenger," said Danny Sullivan, editor in chief of Search Engine Land. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
Yahoo to Allow Users to Opt Out of Custom Ads Nov 16, 2009
com, the search engine giant stores server log information like location, IP address, time and date, operating system, browser, and sometimes, unique cookie ID, Google said. There are no third parties involved in serving up ads on Google. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
All eyes on Murdoch as newspapers ponder digital future Nov 16, 2009
The News Corp. chairman, pictured in September 2009, has prompted a fierce debate among media watchers with his accusation that Google is "stealing" from his vast newspaper empire and his threat to block the search engine from access ... The News Corp. chairman has prompted a fierce debate among media watchers with his accusation that Google is "stealing" from his vast newspaper empire and his threat to block the search engine from accessing its content ... " Google, in response to Murdoch's... (Yahoo! Asia News)
SEOTonic SOLUTIONS Ranked as a Best Search Engine Optimization Company for November 2009 Nov 16, 2009
com is proud to call SEOTonic SOLUTIONS one of the Best Search Engine Optimization Firms for November 2009. . (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
'Googled,' by Ken Auletta Nov 16, 2009
Founded a little more than three years earlier by Stanford computer-science students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company was running the most popular search engine in the world, but it had yet to figure out a way to turn a decent profit. Still spooked by the dot-com crash, the powerful venture capitalists who had poured money into the business were pushing Page and Brin to "monetize" their traffic, perhaps by plastering their pristine site with ads. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Ken Auletta examines Google Nov 16, 2009
Auletta looked out at the crowd of young Googlers with their ubiquitous open laptops and said, "In 1998, we know who was in a garage doing something new." He was referring, of course, to Brin and Page, who started the search engine from a Stanford dorm room and soon relocated to a Silicon Valley garage. "And you have become their worst nightmare.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
Should Web Search Data Be Stored? Nov 16, 2009
Most search engines record the terms users enter, along with the time of the requests and information on the computer used ... But the only way that'll work is if consumers actually have enough information about companies' practices to make rational choices about which search engines to use, and enough information about how the law protects their online privacy ... However, the DOJ's position is that ECPA doesn't apply to the search engines and search terms, the search engines themselves refuse... (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Three Tempting Stocks for a Hot Takeover Market Nov 16, 2009
owner of the worlds top search engine, last week agreed to pay $750 million to acquire closely held Admob Inc., a mobile-phone advertising company. Meanwhile of Northfield, Illinois, reiterated its offer of about $16 billion to acquire Cadbury PLC, a British candy maker. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
Webtrends and InetAsia Announce Launch of Managed Services Platform in Asia Nov 16, 2009
Webtrends delivers the industry's most recognized search engine marketing, visitor intelligence, and analytics solutions to enable companies to understand their customers, drive engagement, and enhance marketing and brand awareness. Thousands of global organizations, including HSBC, Microsoft, NY Times, CCTV, China Mobile and China Life, have chosen Webtrends business solutions and client services expertise to optimize their customers' online experiences. (JCN Network, Japan)
» More Feature Articles Nov 16, 2009
- at Search Engine Watch - Thu, Jul 17, 2003. - at USATODAY.com - Wed, Jun 18, 2003. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Privacy Debacle Hall of Fame Nov 15, 2009
Earlier this month AOL publicly released a data trove: 500,000 search queries culled from three months of user traffic on its search engine. The company claimed it was trying to help researchers by providing "anonymized" search information, but experts and the public were shocked at how easy it was to figure out who had been searching on what. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
CyberAgent Reports Full Year Results; Consolidated Sales Rise 7.8% Nov 15, 2009
This business segment includes the Internet advertising agency business, centered on the company's Internet Advertising Management Division, and the SEM (search engine marketing) business ... (4) Internet advertising agency: Advertising agency business, SEM(Search engine marketing) business, ad network business, advertising creation, etc. (JCN Network, Japan)
› Teaming up against Google Nov 15, 2009
The Bing search engine by Microsoft ... Search engines not giving you the results you want ... Microsoft's new search engine Bing, which is seeking to chip away at Google's dominance in internet search, is teaming up with WolframAlpha, another rival for the Google crown. (iAfrica.com)
Google eyes China as Baidu fumbles Nov 15, 2009
Google has also beefed up its ranks of engineers with a focus on making the search engine better-suited toward Chinese language Web content. It was not immediately clear how many people Google employs in China. (India Times)
Murdoch's google crackdown sparks debate Nov 15, 2009
The News Corp. chairman has prompted a fierce debate among media watchers with his accusation that Google is "stealing" from his vast newspaper empire and his threat to block the search engine from accessing its content ... " Google, in response to Murdoch's comments, made in an interview with Sky News Australia, said news organisations were free to opt out of being indexed by the search engine but noted that it drives "about 100,000 clicks every minute" to media outlet websites, generating ad... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Google to talk with Chinese authors over copyrights Nov 15, 2009
BEIJING, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- Search engine giant Google is to send a representative to China next week to talk with the country's copyright watchdog to cool down Chinese authors' heated complaints against the company over copyright violations, said a Google senior executive Sunday. Daniel Alegre, Google's vice president of Asia Pacific Sales & Operations, told Xinhua on phone that he is not sure about whom but someone will go to China to "communicate" further with China Written Works Copyright... (Xinhuanet, China)
Microsoft befriends Twitter Nov 15, 2009
The partnership announced Wednesday represents a coup for Microsoft as it tries to spice up its Internet search engine, Bing, in its long-running attempts to lure traffic from Google ... It's the kind of information that Google's search engine, far more popular than Bing, can't currently provide ... "We think this is one of the first times that a search engine will be differentiated through access to content," J.P. Morgan analyst Imran Khan wrote Wednesday in an analysis of the deal. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Google Gives Ground on Book Settlement Nov 15, 2009
Google proposed ceding some control over international rights of the so-called orphan books it has been digitizing and adding to its massive search engine. The new settlement will be open for a public comment period. (Slate)
UN seeks better links between its peace missions in Africa Nov 15, 2009
You will now be redirected to our search engine. If you are not redirected within 5 seconds please click. (Yahoo News -- Pan-Africa)
AdMob Said to Have Been Approached by Apple Before Accepting Google Offer Nov 15, 2009
The interest in AdMob highlights the increasing competition in the mobile-phone market between Apple, maker of the iPhone, and Google, the most popular search engine. Google Chief Executive Officer resigned from Apples board in July after serving for three years. (Bloomberg -- US)
Electronic Privacy Information Center: Privacy Nov 15, 2009
com's "AskEraser" search engine product, which has been criticized by privacy groups for reducing user privacy and failing to function as advertised. Information about the ability of the FBI to investigate Americans. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Who's new, what's new Nov 15, 2009
Morgan Seedarnee has joined the staff of Alternate Image, 132 W. International Speedway Blvd. Seedarnee will assist with search engine optimization, marketing and customer support for the Web site development company. She graduated from Stetson University in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. (Daytona Beach News Journal -- Business)
Drug industry presses FDA to allow more online ads Nov 14, 2009
In April, the FDA fired off warning letters to Pfizer Inc., GlaxoSmithKline PLC and a dozen other drugmakers for search engine ads that did not mention drug risks. The ads called sponsored links appear on the screen margins of sites like Google when users search for certain key words. (Yahoo News -- Pharmaceutical Industry News)
Federal Judge Recuses from Suit Over Faux Firm Gripe Site Nov 14, 2009
Also filed by Levinson Axelrod Thursday was a supporting declaration by Joe Devine, a search engine optimization expert. It said the court needs to do more than just order Heyburn to cease using the levinsonaxelrod. (Law.com)
Woods falls into share of lead in Australia Nov 14, 2009
Find Golf Courses Near You With The Web's Local Search Engine. Featured. (Yahoo News)
Video Fingerprinting Offers Search Solution Nov 14, 2009
"Say you saw a short clip of a TV series and wanted to see more of it but did not know the name. You could easily upload the clip to a DIVAS search engine and then use this to find not only the series, but also the season, episode and the exact minute of a scene the clip is from," Achilleopoulos explains ... 5, 2009) Search engine technology is in a state of flux as it digs ever deeper for new ... VizSeek is one of the first search engines on the Internet to use a photograph, a 2D image, or a 3D... (Science Daily)
What Are Web Surfers Seeking? Well, It's Just What You'd Think Nov 14, 2009
Some 35% of these questioners never clicked on an answer, though I am not sure what even the best search engine could have done with a question like, "How to find your eye color.". How good is the Web at actually answering questions. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
New Source of Online Ad Revenue Nov 14, 2009
The figure, more than twice what the Kelsey Group had estimated last year, is particularly striking because search engines and Yellow Pages Web sites have done little until recently to give Internet users easy ways to find local businesses ... Google, which according to comScore Networks, a research firm, executes 35 percent of all Internet searches, last year introduced a test version of a localized search engine (http://labs. (Yahoo News -- Electronic Commerce)
Should Web Search Data Be Stored? Nov 14, 2009
Most search engines record the terms users enter, along with the time of the requests and information on the computer used ... But the only way that'll work is if consumers actually have enough information about companies' practices to make rational choices about which search engines to use, and enough information about how the law protects their online privacy ... However, the DOJ's position is that ECPA doesn't apply to the search engines and search terms, the search engines themselves refuse... (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Google must stop snooping on us Nov 14, 2009
ONCE upon a time, back in the almost unimaginable days before Google was a household name and a search engine clicked by almost every computer user on the planet, three geeks were sitting in the company s modest office in California preparing to meet some possible new recruits ... It was also a handy marketing tool to differentiate their upstart search engine from Microsoft, embroiled in endless battles with anti-trust authorities in America and Europe ... On these terms, is it really evil for a... (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Obama 'so hot' in China ahead of trip Nov 14, 2009
He's been the top-ranked foreigner in searches on Baidu, China's leading search engine. Official media low keyBut it will take more than making United States history and winning a Nobel Peace Prize to make him a superstar. (MSNBC -- International)
Swiss privacy watchdog takes Google to court Nov 14, 2009
The California-based search engine company believes Street View is legal and will "vigorously contest" the case, said Google's global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer. Editor: Xiong Tong. (Xinhuanet, China)
The best and worst places to find a job in the U.S. Nov 14, 2009
Government and defense jobs are plentiful in both cities, where there are fewer than three unemployed workers for every job opening, according to a new survey by a national online job search engine ... Juju was one of the first employment search engines on the Internet in 1998, and was originally known as job-search-engine. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Business)
UN seeks better links between its peace missions in Africa Nov 13, 2009
You will now be redirected to our search engine. If you are not redirected within 5 seconds please click. (Yahoo News -- Pan-Africa)
Our goal is not to bid for 3G to get business: Shailesh Rao, MD, Google India Nov 13, 2009
For Google, which owns the worlds most visited search engine, Indias over 471 million phone subscribers provide the best opportunity to replicate its internet success and challenge rivals like Microsoft. Google India managing director Shailesh Rao spoke with ET BUreau about how India ranks first in the global mobile search market, wh 00004000 ether Google would participate in the 3G auctions, and how the companys advertising revenues from the country are growing at double digit rates. (India Times)
LETTER: All have responsibilityto care for each other Nov 13, 2009
2 letter), information re: a sex offender list is available online using any search engine. Example: plus numerous other sites to read and print out, if desired. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
TV Guide for the Internet Debuts Nov 13, 2009
Clicker is trying to set itself apart by combining elements of a search engine, a digital video recorder and a forum that allows people to recommend shows to one another ... New Search engine dedicated to Automotive Service Industry ... A new search engine that lists all the auto service centers, searching throughout service shops specialization, and certification, to find the most relevant auto service station. (CBS News)
Managing your nerd Nov 13, 2009
A member of my family is MUCH more along the nerd axis than I am; he works for one of the Big Search Engine companies, doing complex back-end stuff. He definitely lives in his head much more than I do, seems to hate small talk -- it's impossible to talk about anything technical with him without it becoming, essentially, a 'you don't know as much as me so I can't talk to you, so I'm ending this conversation' moment. (Harper's Magazine)
Privacy Debacle Hall of Fame Nov 13, 2009
Earlier this month AOL publicly released a data trove: 500,000 search queries culled from three months of user traffic on its search engine. The company claimed it was trying to help researchers by providing "anonymized" search information, but experts and the public were shocked at how easy it was to figure out who had been searching on what. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
