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News Facebook continues to roll out Twitter-inspired features like a revamped search engine, a "publisher" tool that can make status updates selectively public, and soon a stripped down "Facebook Lite" site that looks quite a... [24 Aug 2009]
Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo! join fight against Google Books
News Google has book-search agreements in place with numerous publishers but the company hopes that the settlement will permit it to bring many more books into its service. Currently, users of Google Book... [21 Aug 2009]
White Paper: The Future of Search Advertising
White Paper Will the current economic downturn bring an end to the double-digit growth paid search advertising has enjoyed over the past 5 years? Popular wisdom among industry experts holds that... [01 Jun 2009]
Twitter? Not for me, thanks
News The remaining respondents said they use Twitter to communicate with customers (two per cent), to keep up with business contacts (one per cent) or as a search engine (one per cent). But despite its success, Twitter execs... [26 May 2009]
Twitter's on-page search goes live
News On Thursday the company added the on-page search tool to every user's Twitter homepage after having switched it on for selected users during the past two months. Below the new search box, which sits in... [01 May 2009]
Microsoft: Downturn grips firmly onto 2009
News over its rival's internet search business, which the executives of both companies appeared to be warming to in comments made last week. Separately, Microsoft confirmed it had cut rates paid to agencies... [02 Mar 2009]
Google slimming down six projects
News In a series of separate posts on official Google blogs, the company announced it is terminating, stopping development on, or restricting access to six products: Catalog Search, Dodgeball, Jaiku, Mashup Editor, Notebook... [15 Jan 2009]
Activist investor Carl Icahn ups Yahoo! stake
News That brings Icahn's stake in the internet search pioneer to about 75.6 million shares, or 5.5 per cent, according to a regulatory filing. He did not discount the idea of a search partnership however.... [01 Dec 2008]
Microsoft's Ballmer not threatened by Google Android
News Ballmer said although the idea was that Google gave away the operating system and in return got to put its search on devices for free, he believed telecommunications operators were smart and would still ask to be... [06 Nov 2008]
Carl Icahn: "Yahoo! should make a Microsoft deal"
News s paid search revenues and to reduce the term of the deal from 10 years to two years is a desperate gambit that is likely to fail. shares edged up Tuesday as analysts and the company's own major... [05 Nov 2008]
Revised search deal for Yahoo!-Google?
News and Google have reportedly revised their search advertising agreement, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The controversial search advertising deal calls for Yahoo! to place Google's ads... [04 Nov 2008]
Google Android goes to Market with app store
News In addition, Google started promoting the G1 on its highly trafficked search page. Google wants the Android Market to be like YouTube, with a search function to let people find what they want and user... [23 Oct 2008]
Five reasons Chrome will take over the world
News With 70 per cent of the world's web searches going through Google's search engine, the company has built up a brand awareness so strong that the verb 'to Google' is already part of the lexicon. Google has proved to be a... [02 Sep 2008]
The Marketer's Guide to Optimizing Your Web Content for Search Engines
White Paper This whitepaper addresses the fundamentals, and a number of the secrets, to effective search engine optimization, including search engines vs.directories vs.paid listings, making your... [02 Sep 2008]
Microsoft, Yahoo! talks: In the "off-again" phase
News Microsoft will deliver an API that Facebook can use to integrate both Microsoft's web search and its paid search results into the social-networking site. The two sides have talked on and... [25 Jul 2008]
