Search Engine News
This section provides a daily dose of regularly updated Search Engine News.Libraries upgrade catalogs to compete with Google, others
Librarians nationwide are turning to specialty software giant Innovative Interfaces Inc. to refresh their online card catalogs in a bid to compete with online information hubs like Google, Amazon and Wikipedia.
9/16/2007 11:21:40 PM
Yahoo! testing Mash social networking site
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo is testing an experimental social network service called Mash that makes it easy for Yahoo users to share tidbits of their lives with friends and family online, the company says.
9/16/2007 11:07:45 PM
Yahoo to start testing Mash, a social network site
Yahoo Inc is testing an experimental social network service called Mash that makes it easy for Yahoo users to share tidbits of their lives with friends and family online, the company said on Sunday.
9/16/2007 10:23:05 PM
Google's got self-esteem issues
Its quest for global Googlisation may be going very well - but Google may need a bit of positive reinforcement, or even just a hug. While the word Google is synonymous with web searching, the massive corporate doesn't even rate itself in its own top 10.
9/16/2007 10:07:12 PM
Yahoo! Mash People Can Edit My Profile? I Don't Like That Idea
Yahoo has launched Mash as a beta version (by invitation only) this weekend. It's (yet another) social networkig site that appears to be aimed at unseating Facebook, and their biggest differentiator is a wiki-like approach where people can edit each other's profiles. More importantly, you can create a new profile for somebody else and then inite them to 'claim' that profile and make it theirs. ...
9/16/2007 7:05:59 PM
Google: To the moon, people, to the moon
Calling all space geeks. Google. and the X Prize Foundation Thursday announced the US$30 million Google Lunar X Prize.
9/16/2007 6:58:39 PM
Yahoo seeking more media tieups
The chief of Yahoo Japan Corp. wants to pursue tieups with a wide range of mass media, including newspapers and broadcasters, to obtain more Net-based advertisers. Read more ...
9/16/2007 6:43:29 PM
Flash satellite will help Google Earth sharpen its image
WASHINGTON - DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery for Google interactive mapping program Google Earth, said a new high-resolution satellite will boost the accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive.
9/16/2007 5:59:33 PM
TechnologyExpert: Yahoo! gets social with "Mash"
Are you ready to social network, Yahoo-style? On Friday Yahoo! started sending out invitations to Mash, its beta social networking site. Note that you will need an invitation to mash with the rest of us. If you need an invitation, check out my earlier story.
9/16/2007 3:59:54 PM
Search by Google
Botswana is home to a number of major cyber-criminals, it has been revealed. Botswana has been named among countries where a number of cyber criminals involved in a billion Pula fraud are based. The worldwide fraud, known as Click Fraud, is said to total as much as 15 percent of the value of advertising revenue earned by the online giants Yahoo.com and Google.com, and other search engines, or P6 ...
9/16/2007 3:35:16 PM
Google backs Asian privacy approach
Google Inc, the world's largest internet company, will propose at a meeting of European policymakers in France today that national regulators agree on a basic set of global privacy protections.
9/16/2007 12:14:19 PM
Yahoo's lagging growth a cause for concern
CHAMPAIGN – To former Motorola employees in Champaign whose livelihoods were saved by Yahoo, the Internet giant looks like a white knight. But to analysts and investors across the nation, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company appears to have tarnished armor.
9/16/2007 10:39:56 AM
What you ought to know about Yahoo
Some questions and answers about Yahoo:
9/16/2007 10:39:48 AM
Y! Mash: Yahoo! Tries to Catch Up With Facebook
Friday saw the beta launch, to invitees only, of Yahoo!'s latest attempt to catch up Facebook in the social networking stakes. Called 'pretty raw' still even by its own project leader, Will Aldrich - ('there are bugs and we haven?t gotten to several of the features it really should have') - Mash claims to have a new approach to online profiles.
9/16/2007 10:34:16 AM
Photo-sharing sites go beyond Yahoo
Yahoo Photos, a popular online photo-hosting site, is shutting down Thursday, after which any images stored there will head into oblivion.
9/16/2007 6:00:15 AM
Big changes at Yahoo? Small chance
Investors who have grown impatient with Yahoo Inc. may have to wait awhile longer to see any pop in its stock. Â Â Â The Internet company replaced its chief executive in June and this summer kicked off a review to better position it for a changing online-advertising market and compete
9/16/2007 1:18:47 AM
Yahoo to Acquire BuzzTracker
Yahoo said it has reached an agreement to acquire BuzzTracker, a Web tool that tracks news stories on multiple sources across the Internet, and presents them based on their popularity, for an undisclosed amount.
9/15/2007 6:11:15 PM
Yahoo acquires blog tracking company BuzzTracker
Yahoo acquires blog tracking company BuzzTrackerInternet company Yahoo has announced that they are acquiring BuzzTracker. This web service ranks stories based on their popularity among bloggers.This acquisition is aimed to expand the scope of their advertising on the web.
9/15/2007 4:27:54 PM
Google Applauds Standards Group for Rejecting Microsoft
Google Inc., which has been less vocal than some on the furor surrounding the standards process for Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML, came out Friday in support of the ISO's decision to reject the specification.
9/15/2007 2:00:00 PM
Yahoo finally gets a good social network: Mash
Just going into beta, Yahoo's new social network, Mash, beats the stuffing out of its predecessor, Yahoo 360.
9/15/2007 2:20:15 AM
Google Backs Moon Challenge
Google will pay as much as $25 million to the first private company that lands a robotic rover on the moon and sends a gigabyte of images to Earth, the Internet search company said yesterday.
9/14/2007 9:07:39 PM
Yahoo late on Messenger for Vista
No ETA yet on Yahoo Messenger for Vista public beta, which is three months late.
9/14/2007 6:20:25 PM
Google applauds ISO vote, voices OOXML concerns
Google, which has been less vocal than some on the furor surrounding the standards process for Microsoft's Office Open XML, came out Friday in support of the ISO's decision to reject the specification.
9/14/2007 6:19:26 PM
Yahoo yawner on Monday: Teachers demo
Hoping for the launch of something completely new from Yahoo on Monday, instead TechCrunch conference attendees will see Yahoo Teachers, a previously-announced initiative.
9/14/2007 5:50:45 PM
Yahoo Buys BuzzTracker
Internet search company Yahoo Inc. has purchased news-aggregation Web site BuzzTracker in a sale that closed earlier in the week, BuzzTracker Chief Executive Alan Warms said Friday.
9/14/2007 4:00:32 PM
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