The lawsuits filed in the US District Court in Lower Manhattan by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charge that eight former executives of AOL inflated online advertising revenue by not less than $1 billion.
The actions by the accused had the effect of making investors and Wall Street analysts feel that AOL Time Warner was […]

It’s just a start-up but Relona has demonstrated with statistics that there is still scope for a lot of improvement in the search engine market.
Relona has come up with a technology that challenges the relevance of the search results given by the big players. There is an enormous amount of content on the web and […]

Baidu is getting involved in the U.S. Presidential elections and they are supporting Barack Obama. Baidu.com, the leading search engine in China, has decided to support him by putting a caricature of him and the democratic donkey on their homepage with the Baidu logo. Also, clicking on the logo will lead you to Obama’s profile.
Baidu […]

Not being affected by Microsoft’s deadline to accept their offer, Yahoo! has gone ahead with its plans and is making what seems like last efforts to boost its online ad system. All this is happening amidst Microsoft trying to work out possible solicitation talks.
The New York Times has reported of Yahoo’s new ad sales system. […]

Yahoo! - the subject of a hostile takeover attempt from Microsoft – had just announced it would be building the semantic web principles into its search engine as well as adopting some of the key ‘standards’ (rules about categorising, tagging information, which will standardise the method in which data is organised while indexing a piece […]

Social networking web sites may well be needed to take away any material perceived unsuitable for children like obscene or violent images and statements, within just 24 hours of receiving a complaint in this regard. This step has been suggested under a rigorous new code for Internet safety.

The world’s leading search engine Google has generated impressive advertising sales of almost $2.53 billion in the UK in 2007. The figure represents good year-on-year growth of nearly 45 per cent compared to last yer (2006), though it’s down from the whopping growth rate of 80 per cent declared in that year’s earnings report.

Baidu.com, China’s top search engine, has been reportedly sued by one of the leading music industry groups in the country for an alleged violation of copyright. According to a statement publicised by an official of the Music Copyright Society, Baidu.com offered ‘music listening, downloading and broadcasting services’ in several forms through its site without prior […]

Singapore’s A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) has received an overwhelming response to its global competition with an idea of conceiving technologies for a rich, dynamic media search engine. The new search engine would be smart enough for identifying text, audio & video containing any word - even if that particular word, or relevant […]

One of the most vital steps taken before developing your product or service website is to find out what people are searching for. To find out what web users want online, one has to undertake keyword research. Keyword research means delving deep to find the most commonly used keywords typed by users into the search […]

According to Hitwise (an Experian company), Microsoft has a dominant market share with its Hotmail web mail service in the UK, while Gmail has been flat for the last few months in spite of gaining some traction. Last week the combined market share of the Microsoft and Yahoo services was 13 times that of Google. […]

Microsoft has launched a massive ad campaign with the intention of promoting Microsoft Live Search. An email pertaining to their ad campaign was doing rounds. A SEO guy from Search Engine Watch Forums received the mail from Microsoft. The mail mentioned that Microsoft wanted to make all users aware of the commencement of a phase […]

Many regional search engines have come up since last few years, but most have met with limited success. One such exception is a search engine called Naver.com, which originated from South Korea. Taken from the English word “navigator” ‘Naver’ was launched in 1999 as the first portal to provide search services in the country.