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Yahoo and IBM team up in enterprise search
A minute after midnight, Bill Snyder, Senior Writer for TheStreet.com, broke the story about IBM teaming up with Yahoo in enterprise search. As of…
Online Shopping, on your Phone
Most online comparison shopping sites are rich with text and graphic images displaying all manner of info about the wares they are peddline. That…
Yahoo! Partners With New Zealand Telecom
Forbes reports that Yahoo! through a joint venture with the 7 Network in Australia have partnered (51/49%) with Telecom New Zealand Ltd. The article…
Ho, Ho, Ho – Holiday Shopping Search Skyrockets
This year’s Cyber Monday numbers shattered the record books, with significant increases of online shopping site visits and a reported $600 in online retail…
Shopping Search, Via Mobile Phone
Many popular shopping sites offer mobile versions of their search tools, which can be especially useful for those always on the go.
Google Employees To Be Able To Auction Options
In a move to possibly retain and gain employees, Google has developed a method for its non-executive workers to auction their vested options. The…
Gambling NO; Gamblers’ Lifestyle Video Partnership Yes
Google may not allow companies to advertise online gambling sites in the United States, but they will carry the sponsored videos of the Players…
Va. Pushing For Sex Predator Register Email, IM Info
In a move that could help keep track of sex predators’ whereabouts on the web, Virginia legislators will vote on a bill in the…
YouTube featured in Coke campaign
Brian Morrissey of AdWeek reports that Coca-Cola has launched a YouTube promotion that taps several of the most popular video bloggers. This includes LisaNova,…
Google Finance gets makeover
Google Finance got a makeover today, just six months after being launched. According to the Official Google Blog, here’s what’s new: * A new…
Yahoo Mid-Year Offer to Buy Facebook Rejected
According to Michael Arrington at Techcrunch, Yahoo proposed a $1 billion acquisition of the social network Facebook in mid-2006. According to leaked documents, At…
Why is “news” a stop word in Google News?
If you use Google News to search for the term, Google News, you are told “news” is a very common word and was not…
MySpace passes Yahoo in page views
Check out the post by Liz Gannes on GigoOM entitled, Report: MySpace Passes Yahoo in Page Views. According to comScore data mentioned in a…
Is click fraud via Google “a fraction of one percent”?
Donna Bogatin has an interesting post on ZDNet entitled, Google and click fraud: As wholesome as milk? While giving Google left-handed praise for “playing…
White paper says vertical search will hit $1 billion by 2009
Kate Maddox of B2BOnline reports today on a new white paper by Slack Barshinger and SearchChannel that projects revenue from B2B vertical search engines…
Wordtracker holds contest to find the next Google Guru
A $6,000 contest from Wordtracker.com aims to give anyone the skills they need to become a Google Guru in just five days of intensive…
Mamma.com Launches New Video Search Engine
Mamma.com has launched a video search engine in Beta format. In conjunction with the Pixsy Media Search Platform, Mamma.com now offers its users video…
Google Copies Yahoo’s IE7 Marketing Page
Jeromy Zawodny has found that Google used the existing Yahoo IE7 promo page. Comparative pictures of the two promo pages supports his contention. Zawodny,…
Searching for Reliable Stats
The web abounds with statistics, but you often have to search around to find a government agency or other reliable source to get the…
Panama Now Open to New U.S. Advertisers
An earlier-than-expected launch in October for existing Yahoo advertisers has apparently gone well, since Yahoo today opened up the platform to new U.S. advertisers.…