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IMs Interoperate via Open
Source Jive By Search News Desk Open source start-up Jive
Software has revved its
enterprise-class Wildfire
Server so users can
communicate with anyone
on the proprietary
instant messaging
networks like Yahoo, AOL
and MSN. Jive points out
that IM is the
fastest-growing
communications medium in
... Oct. 29, 2006 06:15 PM Reads: 7,346 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal: Google
Launches Google Custom
Search Engine By Search News Desk Google has launched the
Google Custom Search
Engine, a new way to
bring tailored search to
websites and blogs. In
just minutes, anyone can
use the Google search
platform to create a
search engine focused on
any content they like -
from Hollywood
heartthrobs, to fa... Oct. 26, 2006 07:00 AM Reads: 7,671 | Google Releases 2006
Google Earth Election
Guide By Search News Desk Google has Released the
2006 Google Earth
Election Guide. Conceived
by Google Earth engineers
who found it difficult to
find aggregated election
information online about
races country-wide, the
2006 Google Earth
Election Guide serves as
an easily accessible
resour... Oct. 26, 2006 06:00 AM Reads: 7,887 | Google Bundles Writely
with Spreadsheets By Search News Desk Google barely had time to
give Microsoft the finger
between it's chomping
down on YouTube and
spitting out an
Office-wannabe version of
its Writely web-based
collaborative word
processor bundled with
its software-as-a-service
Google Spreadsheets. The
Writely bran... Oct. 17, 2006 08:15 AM Reads: 6,600 Replies: 1 | Apollo Hosting Deploys
CanIt-PRO Anti-Spam
Software By Search News Desk; Flex News Desk Specializing in 'Total
Solutions Hosting' Apollo
Hosting provides
everything their
customers need to build,
sell and market their
websites. Their web
servers were processing
over half a million
unsolicited spam emails
on a daily basis.
Apollo's Vice President
of... Oct. 4, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 13,506 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal: Kahzam!
Takes On GoClick By Search News Desk TransMedia Group said
today that it has secured
what ir hopes will become
the second tier's leading
search engine,
Kahzam.com. Aug. 28, 2006 06:30 AM Reads: 9,488 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal:
Experimental
Investigation into Search
Engines By Search News Desk Web CEO, is the vendor of
one of the flagship
products in the SEO
software market, Web CEO.
Like its competitors, Web
CEO can analyze an HTML
page to discover how it
can be improved for
better rankings in the
search engines. Unlike
its competitors, Web CEO
grounds... Jul. 5, 2006 06:00 PM Reads: 8,952 Replies: 2 | Marketworks Integrates
Google Checkout By Search News Desk 'We worked closely with
Google during their
initial development and
testing of Google
Checkout,' said Ken
Powell, chief executive
officer, Marketworks. 'As
a result of this
collaboration, we are
able to offer a
comprehensive integration
of Google Checkout into
o... Jul. 5, 2006 12:15 PM Reads: 9,677 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal: Yahoo
and 3 Group Sign
Strategic Alliance to
Offer Yahoo Services on 3
Group Networks By Search News Desk Yahoo and 3 Group have
announced a global
agreement in which Yahoo
will provide its
portfolio of rich mobile
services to 3 worldwide.
Under the terms of the
agreement, the two
companies will work
together to offer key
Internet services such as
Yahoo Search, Yahoo ... Jul. 4, 2006 06:30 PM Reads: 10,251 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal: Google
Checkout Opens for
Business By Search News Desk Google has announced the
launch of Google Checkout
(http://checkout.google.c
om), a checkout process
that makes online
shopping faster, more
convenient and more
secure for Google users.
Google Checkout offers an
easy and trusted checkout
option that enables
shopper... Jul. 3, 2006 09:15 PM Reads: 9,753 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal: New
Mobile Services from
Google By Search News Desk Google has announced the
availability of several
mobile services that
further demonstrate its
commitment to making the
mobile phone a more
convenient and dependable
device for accessing
useful and relevant
information while on the
go. Already available in
U.S. and... Jun. 28, 2006 11:45 AM Reads: 13,909 Replies: 1 | Yahoo and FIFA Announce
Record-Breaking Traffic
Results for
FIFAWORLDCUP.COM By Search News Desk Yahoo and FIFA have
announced that fans are
visiting
FIFAworldcup.com, the
official Web site of the
2006 FIFA World CUP, in
record numbers.
FIFAworldcup.com is
jointly hosted, produced
and marketed by Yahoo and
FIFA. Jun. 27, 2006 04:45 PM Reads: 13,938 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal:
Microsoft Team with
Global Telcos to Build
Business IP Phones By Search News Desk Microsoft has announced
that it is teaming up
with telecommunications
providers to deliver a
broad set of unified
communications devices
that enable choice for
information workers and
enterprise IT
departments. Devices
include innovative
business Internet
protoc... Jun. 27, 2006 10:45 AM Reads: 8,728 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal: Simmons
Announces Creation of New
Online Research Services
Group By Search News Desk 'Simmons Online will
leverage Simmons patented
behavioral integration
technology and other
Experian data assets and
tools to combine the
speed and agility of
online data collection
with Simmons high
standards and scientific
approach to market
research,' the company
says. Jun. 22, 2006 02:15 PM Reads: 8,474 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal: Google
Introduces Ad Scheduling
for Google AdWords By Search News Desk Google has introduced ad
scheduling for Google
AdWords. This feature
enables advertisers to
automatically adjust
their bids or pause and
resume their campaigns
based on the time-of-day
or day-of-week, as per
the company. Jun. 21, 2006 02:00 PM Reads: 5,689 Replies: 2 | SEO/SEM Journal: Google
Launches New Google U.S.
Government Search Site By Search News Desk Google has announced
Google U.S. Government
Search (http://usgov.goog
le.com), a new search
product that will make it
easier to find U.S.
government information
and keep up to date on
government news. With
Google U.S. Government
Search, millions of U.S.
government ... Jun. 20, 2006 11:30 AM Reads: 11,116 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal:
FrameFree Technologies
Announces Integrated
Digital Content Authoring
System By Search News Desk FrameFree Technologies
has announced the launch
of the FrameFree United
Networks (FUN), a
groundbreaking new
production and delivery
platform that is the
first to create and
aggregate original
digital content for
efficient, worldwide
distribution. Jun. 19, 2006 08:45 AM Reads: 11,004 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal: MSN
Collaborates with
LivePlanet to Produce
Next-Generation Original
Online Content By Search News Desk MSN has announced an
alliance with LivePlanet,
the Los Angeles-based
production company behind
the three-time
Emmy-nominated
multiplatform series
'Project Greenlight' for
HBO and Bravo. LivePlanet
will produce 'Fan Club:
Reality Baseball,' the
first content that w... Jun. 18, 2006 02:30 AM Reads: 11,754 Replies: 3 | Google Might Abandon
Google.cn By Search News Desk Google co-founder Sergey
Brin recently revealed
that the company was
likely to abandon its
China-based search engine
Google.cn. On Jan. 25 of
this year, Google
established Google.cn
that operates on servers
based in China, but now
the users of Google.cn
are not ev... Jun. 14, 2006 06:45 PM Reads: 8,527 Replies: 1 | Google Earth Release 4
(Beta): Simpler UI,
Several New Features By Search News Desk Google Earth, which
combines satellite
imagery, maps and the
power of Google Search to
put the world's
geographic information at
users' fingertips,
yesterday was released in
its latest version -
Release 4 (Beta). Google
has added several new
features. Jun. 14, 2006 09:00 AM Reads: 7,913 | SEO/SEM Journal: Splunk
Cites "Great Leap
Forward" with Splunk 2.0 By Search News Desk With Splunk 2.0, data
access, processing and
indexing can be
partitioned to run across
multiple hosts for
greater scalability. The
company itself reports
that it runs its own
software to index its
internal logs from email,
VoIP and QA environment. Jun. 13, 2006 12:00 PM Reads: 6,246 Replies: 1 | Google's Josh Bloch:
"Nearly All Binary
Searches and Mergesorts
Are Broken" By Search News Desk 'A bug can exist for half
a century despite our
best efforts to
exterminate it,' wrote
Google's Joshua Bloch
(formerly of Sun) last
week, as he highlighted
something called the
'binary-search bug' and
reminded the world that
it applies equally to
mergesort, and to... Jun. 12, 2006 05:45 AM Reads: 11,448 Replies: 5 | SEO/SEM Journal:
Microsoft Trying to
Bludgeon Google with
Checkbook By Search News Desk Microsoft has been
testing adCenter with
6,000 accounts and
reportedly those who
tested it got more clicks
converted to paying
customers than Google or
Yahoo. Looked at that
way, Google tends to come
in last behind AOL,
Microsoft and Yahoo.
Which might explain why... May. 8, 2006 10:30 AM Reads: 9,727 Replies: 1 | Ask.com CEO Joins
Microsoft as SVP of its
Online Business Group By Search News Desk 'I look forward to
working for Microsoft and
with the many talented
people there who have the
ability to be a force for
change to continue to
shape this still nascent
industry.' With that
bland stock sentence,
written surely by a PR
flack as an all-purpose
quote f... Apr. 23, 2006 03:45 AM Reads: 9,182 Replies: 1 | Search in China: Intel
and Baidu.com Sign
Memorandum of
Understanding By Search News Desk Baidu.com, the leading
Chinese language Internet
search provider, has
signed a memorandum of
understanding (MOU) with
2006-Intel China Ltd., a
subsidiary of Intel, for
cooperation in the
development of Internet
search and related
applications in China. Apr. 14, 2006 12:00 PM Reads: 10,169 | Google Snaps Up the
Father of the Orion
Search Engine By Search News Desk  According to Australia's
Sydney Morning Herald,
the 26-year-old
Israeli-born student Ori
Allon - a University of
New South Wales doctoral
candidate - has not only
successfully created his
own search engine, called
Orion; he has also
succeeded in having
himself (an... Apr. 12, 2006 11:45 AM Reads: 20,424 Replies: 1 | Google AdWords Opens
Keyword SEO/SEM Research
Tool, Adds Seasonal Data By Search News Desk Google has opened up its
AdWords keyword research
tool by allowing it to be
accessible from outside
AdWords accounts. The
company has also added
seasonal search volume
data for global and local
searches, and allowed it
to be accessible by match
type (ie: broad, phrase,
exact.) Mar. 27, 2006 09:30 AM Reads: 16,152 Replies: 3 | SEO/SEM Journal: Miva
Launches Pay-per-text
Mobile Ad Service By Search News Desk Search marketing network
Miva has partnered with
118 118 to launch a new
pay-per-text ad channel
that lets advertisers
reach potential customers
via their mobiles. The
new product enables
advertisers for the first
time to buy space within
118 118 text messages. Mar. 25, 2006 09:00 PM Reads: 8,568 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal: Yahoo
Signs Deal For '60
Minutes' Video By Search News Desk CBS Corp. said it will
showcase segments from
its popular '60 Minutes'
television news magazine
on Yahoo as it seeks a
wider audience for its
news programs. The site
will also feature special
'60 Minutes' segments
created for the Yahoo
site and previews of
upcoming broadcasts. Mar. 25, 2006 07:00 PM Reads: 7,581 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal: Scotsman
Guide Unveils Complete
Set Of Online
Wholesale-Lender Search
Engines By Search News Desk Scotsman Guide, a
resource for mortgage
originators, has
announced the release of
its complete line of free
online wholesale-lender
search engines at
scotsmanguide.com. All
matrixes from Scotsman
Guide's residential and
commercial magazines are
now searchable online. Mar. 25, 2006 05:45 PM Reads: 9,745 Replies: 3 | SEO/SEM Journal: Personal
Data Leaked About Yahoo
Website Shoppers By Search News Desk Yahoo Japan said Friday
personal data on 8,223
deals for a wine-selling
firm on its shopping
website have been leaked
through the Winny
file-sharing program on a
virus-infected personal
computer of the firm. Mar. 25, 2006 05:00 PM Reads: 7,895 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal: Yahoo To
Discontinue Yahoo Plus
Premium Bundle By Search News Desk Yahoo has notified
subscribers to its Yahoo
Plus service that the
bundle of fee-based
premium content and
services will be
discontinued in April.
The move is another
indication that such brin
g-your-own-broadband-acce
ss packages, while
popular a few years ago,
are losing their appeal. Mar. 25, 2006 04:45 PM Reads: 6,941 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal:Microsoft
And 3 Network To Bring
MSN Messenger And Hotmail
To Mobile Phones By Search News Desk The 3 group has announced
a deal with Microsoft
that will allow third
generation mobile phone
users to use MSN Hotmail
and MSN Messenger through
their 3 mobile handset. Mar. 25, 2006 01:45 PM Reads: 8,792 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal: Cgogo
Vows To Combat Google,
Yahoo! And Baidu In
Mobile Search By Search News Desk Cgogo,Beijing-based
mobile search service
provider plans to provide
mobile search services,
free of charge, to more
than 10,000 WAP portals
in China, allowing them
to add mobile search
functions onto their
sites. Mar. 24, 2006 01:15 PM Reads: 7,085 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal: SEO
Company Metamend Unveils
New Services and Website By Search News Desk Metamend, a SEM/SEO firm,
has unveiled its new
services, market
segmentation, and
website. Metamend
services include
utilizing Metamend's
monitoring capabilities
and technologies to meet
client requirements for
relevant and accurate
SEM/SEO services. Mar. 24, 2006 12:45 PM Reads: 6,648 Replies: 1 | SearchArize.com Proves
the Importance of Natural
and Organic Results in
SEOs By Search News Desk SearchArize.com has
returned strong results
in its quest to provide
small businesses and
professionals with a
solid online presence and
search engine marketing
campaign that is both
affordable and effective.
While many search engine
marketing firms focus on
sellin... Mar. 23, 2006 04:30 PM Reads: 7,468 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal: Yahoo
Launches Instant Message
Phone In US By Search News Desk Yahoo has launched
Instant Message Phone in
the United States that
lets people make phone
calls through the
company's instant
messaging software. The
service allows people to
make calls from their
computers for 2 cents a
minute or less to the top
30 national phon... Mar. 22, 2006 06:00 PM Reads: 6,678 Replies: 1 | SEO/SEM Journal: Google
Partners With Nike On
Soccer Site By Search News Desk Google and Nike have
launched a Web
site,Joga.com available
in 14 languages for
soccer fans that offers
video, information on
games and players and
social networking. Mar. 22, 2006 05:15 PM Reads: 9,526 Replies: 1 | Elastic Path Optimizes
SEO eCommerce Software By Java News Desk; Search News Desk  Elastic Path Software
announced today the
general availability of
Elastic Path 4.1, an
update of its Java-based
ecommerce software,
enabling marketers to
engage in advanced search
engine optimization (SEO)
campaigns. Mar. 17, 2006 05:00 PM Reads: 13,497 Replies: 2 | Can Google Have Its
Wonton and Eat It, Too? By Search News Desk A recent blog entry from
SYS-CON West Coast Bureau
Chief Roger Strukhoff
suggests that Google's
motto gets in the way of
the company's business.
He thinks Google is wrong
to think it can have
things both ways. But he
could be wrong, too. What
do you think? Feb. 5, 2006 12:00 PM Reads: 7,997 Replies: 1 |
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