Search Engine News
This section provides a daily dose of regularly updated Search Engine News.Google taps Capgemini to bring big business to Apps
The two companies announce a partnership that aims to crack into large corporations with the search giant's online Google Apps. Global consulting firm Capgemini believes that GoogleApps--Google's online alternative to Microsoft Office--appeals to more than college students and small businesses. The two companies on Monday are expected to...
9/9/2007 11:15:44 PM
Major Overhaul May Be Overstatement For Yang's Yahoo; Search Ad Outsourcing No Go; YHOO Music May Go
Maybe there are a few sacred cows at Yahoo after all. The WSJ's Kevin Delaney suggests that the major review announced by Jerry Yang after he became CEO is unlikely to turn into a "major overhaul."
9/9/2007 9:49:00 PM
New search engines focus on finding people
Locate a long-lost friend or old classmate. Get dirt on a potential hire. Those are just a couple of the uses of an emerging group of search engines that find information about people.
9/9/2007 7:59:07 PM
Google Mulling Video Ads In Search Results
Bombula writes to let us know that Google is "finally succumbing to the power of the almighty dollar" and getting ready to implement image and video ads in sponsored searches. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
9/9/2007 7:53:37 PM
Boost for Microsoft Office rival, Google Apps
Capgemini will today become the first global consultancy to offer major corporate clients Google's web-based office software as an alternative to Microsoft's Office technology.
9/9/2007 7:18:21 PM
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9/9/2007 6:41:00 PM
Updated Yahoo Mail Proves Worth The Wait
Two years is a really long time to test a software product, but that's about how long it took for Yahoo to finish its slick new version of Yahoo Mail, the popular e-mail program you access from a Web browser.
9/9/2007 6:38:57 PM
Looking for love: to Google or not to Google?
Back in the day, when "googol" was just a number too large to comprehend, every first date was a clean slate. These days, Google cuts in on the getting-to-know-you dance. Show me a person who has never indulged in a little online detective work. As long as there's Internet access, romance will be researched.
9/9/2007 6:33:46 PM
Google in corporate desktop push
Google has linked up with IT consultancy and outsourcing specialist CapGemini to target corporate customers with its range of desktop applications, in the search engine's most direct move against the dominance of Microsoft.
9/9/2007 6:16:35 PM
Yahoo's New Platform To Fix Search-Based Problems
Yahoo Inc.'s new advertising platform is a "comprehensive program" that will fix the company's search-based ad problems and bolster sales, the company's chief sales officer said Tuesday.
9/9/2007 6:06:00 PM
Google settles ad-search challenge
SAN FRANCISCO – A home décor merchant has dropped a federal lawsuit attacking Google Inc.’s practice of connecting some online ads to trademarks, handing the Internet search leader its latest legal victory on the prickly issue.
9/9/2007 5:21:59 AM
Getting inside Google's gPhone
Still coming to terms with Apple's iPhone invasion, the cellular industry now finds itself bracing for yet another intrusion by a mighty outsider bent on altering the way wireless does business. This time it's Google.
9/9/2007 3:36:23 AM
Rumors swirl around Google's 'GPhone'
The Google phone is like the Roswell UFO: Few outsiders know if it really exists, but it has a cult following.
9/9/2007 2:14:31 AM
Google Adds New Features to Book Search
Google has been looking for ways to enhance the Google Book Search experience and the company recently announced several new features have been added to Book Search, including My Library, a way to customize, organize and then search individual collections of books, and a layer working with Google Maps.
9/8/2007 11:09:24 PM
Google Reader Added Search and ....Er...This is News?
Last week the world (OK, the Techmeme world) got excited because Google added search to its news reader. Huh? What? You mean it didn't have it before? I use Shrook on the Mac, and it's had search forever.
9/8/2007 4:15:59 PM
Google execs take off with landing privileges at Moffett Field
Air Google has landed - at Moffett Field. A Boeing 767 owned by the Internet giant's billionaire founders used the NASA airport near Mountain View earlier this week, raising questions by local officials about the plane becoming a regular, noisy visitor. "I'm...
9/7/2007 11:28:44 PM
10 Search Engines You Don't Know About
Go beyond Google and get vertical. These specialized search sites will help you find the business information you need--fast.
9/7/2007 7:34:13 PM
National Intelligence Web site no longer invisible to search engines
On Thursday, the White House ceased to block search engines from its Iraq-related directories. Now the National Intelligence director is doing the same thing in response to queries from News.com.
9/7/2007 7:14:19 PM
Vancouver man's lawsuit against Yahoo! dismissed
A lawsuit brought by a Vancouver businessman against U.S. internet giant Yahoo! over what he called derogatory comments made about him in an Internet chat room has been dismissed.
9/7/2007 5:47:15 PM
Ad Magnate May Faceoff With Google TV
Martin Sorrell's WPP already owns a small stake in Spot Runner, but could move to take it over to complement an earlier online advertising company purchase. When ad networks were swapping "For Sale" for "Sold" signs earlier in 2007, Google, Microsoft, and to a lesser extent, Yahoo, all figured in those transactions. There was another big deal that took place for an online ad network, only ...
9/7/2007 4:56:13 PM
Zoho Offering Could Challenge Google Apps
It’s only in private beta at the moment, but some day, Zoho Apps may try to stand up to Google itself. Google Apps, anyway, and like that bundle, Zoho Apps will offer a number of “productivity applications and services.” Also like Google’s offering, a lesser version of Zoho Apps will be absolutely free. A “Pro” version will cost $40 per user per year, according to Read/WriteWeb’s Richard ...
9/7/2007 4:41:38 PM
Google Checkout Lost Tracking Data
Google has begun to notify merchants using Google Checkout that Google Checkout pixel tracking was temporarily disabled from July 10 to July 18 due to an issue associated with system maintenance earlier in the month. Pixel tracking allows internet retailers to send Google Checkout conversion data to third parties. While disabled, the feature was unable to report conversions. Many online ...
9/7/2007 4:26:17 PM
Google Actively Considering 'Richer Format' Ads For Google.com
MediaPost reports on comments, about image and video ads potentially appearing on Google, made by company speakers at the Citigroup Technology Conference in New York this week. However, this is just a further acknowledgment and confirmation of what Marissa Mayer previously alluded to during the Universal Search unveiling in May. Click to continue reading... ...
9/7/2007 3:31:25 PM
Google Putting The Squeeze On VCs
Google's not making as many friends as it used to. The latest group to sour a bit on the company are venture capitalists. Of course, business isn't really about making friends, but that hasn't stopped VCs from complaining that Google swallowing up prime acquisitions. So are other major corporations, for that matter, but BusinessWeek picked Google to pick on, and so will we. It's very ...
9/7/2007 3:16:51 PM
Yahoo Local Swamped With Mapspam?
As time goes by, we’re more and more likely to turn to online resources instead of paper phonebooks. The reliability of those resources has come into question, however, after the discovery of some florist-related mapspam on Yahoo Local. Credit for the main exposé goes to Mike Blumenthal (though he, in turn, gives nods to several other sources), and Blumenthal notes that some florists ...
9/7/2007 2:46:32 PM
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