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News Google's cash comes chiefly from text ads in the form of AdWords, which appear alongside search results, and AdSense, which appear on partners' web pages; Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, though, is designed to improve its display-ad business.
[09 May 2008]
News Further presentations featured Sun's Photo Flocker, which enables users to search for photos by tags and view a cascading montage of the results. Sun officially started its JavaOne developer conference in San Francisco this week with a series of...
[08 May 2008]
News Despite this, he pointed to the fact that AOL has been monetising its search results via Google for some time. On the search front, Hall reiterated Microsoft's previous stance: that search results still are not all that good and that Microsoft sees...
[07 May 2008]
News s own web-search results. would use Google's more profitable search advertising platform to make more money for itself, said the source, speaking on condition of anonymity. Google is the top search engine, and a tie-up with number-two search engine...
[29 Apr 2008]
News as a way to compete with arch-rival Google in the internet search and advertising arena but company executives have repeatedly said they have limits to what they are willing to pay to get a deal done.
[25 Apr 2008]
News as a way to compete with arch-rival Google in the internet search and advertising arena - but has limits to what it will pay to get a deal done. and Microsoft rank second and third in web search, respectively.
[24 Apr 2008]
News There's nothing to dissuade me it would be any worse than traditional desktop search. Advertisers will pay only when users click on an ad, as with the company's text ads that appear next to search ads.
[24 Apr 2008]
News Paid clicks, a measure of how often users of its web-search click-on ads tied to search results, rose four per cent from the fourth quarter of 2007 and grew 20 per cent from a year ago. But Cowen & Co analyst Jim Friedland said the surge in the...
[18 Apr 2008]
News Google is set to report quarterly results on Thursday as investors debate whether the company's explosive growth in search advertising has begun being hobbled by a slowing economy. may have started gaining share in the web-search ad market against...
[17 Apr 2008]
News s own natural search results. will test the use of Google advertisements on some of its search pages, the companies have said, a move that raises the possibility of a significant departure from Yahoo!
[10 Apr 2008]
News Google has defended its policy of retaining data on web users for up to 18 months as necessary to improve search results. Fleischer said: "We believe that data-retention requirements have to take into account the need to provide quality products...
[08 Apr 2008]
News giving the internet search pioneer three weeks to enter formal merger negotiations and conclude a deal. Since its initial offer, executives from both companies met four weeks ago for the first time to discuss the merger and once again last week...
[07 Apr 2008]
News This means search results will expand from traditional hyperlinks into other media - a search for "New York" could yield subway timetables, for example, or a search for local restaurants could bring up ratings and reviews along with one-click...
[03 Apr 2008]
News Other improvements noted by Socitm include better information and news, greater use of plain English and improved search services. The number of visitors to council websites sites increased by more than 10 per cent in the past 12 months according...
[04 Mar 2008]
News Google returns all search results, including suspect sites, to a user. However, Google uses the StopBadware.org list of compromised sites to place "interstitial pages" (pages that sits between the search results pages and the suspect page) between...
[20 Feb 2008]
News But critics of Google's mobile search tool say its results aren't always as relevant as results from a desktop Google search. Google has also adapted some advertising products to mobile, including its AdSense program, which matches ads to a site's...
[11 Feb 2008]
News The move is the latest in a series of changes that involves how search results on the site will be displayed and fees for listing items announced recently. In move to curtail retaliation by vengeful sellers in its feedback system, eBay plans to...
[06 Feb 2008]
News Wikia Search has so far been criticised for returning poor and inaccurate results but Wales has not rushed to its defence - calling the search results available at the moment "pretty bad". Wales said: "We are aware that the quality of the search...
[08 Jan 2008]
News Wikia Search, which aims to allow users to contribute to how pages are ranked and to edit search results, will have open-source search algorithms and APIs. Wales, who also founded user-generated online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, hopes Wikia Search...
[03 Jan 2008]
News Last year, Google started flagging sites listed in its search results which contain malware. According to the Google security blog, the search giant already knows about hundreds of thousands of "bad" websites but is hoping its users will add to the...
[04 Dec 2007]
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