'Although this is typically a slower season for Internet properties, we had another exceptional quarter,' said Eric Schmidt, Google chief executive officer. 'Our focus on end users and on quality of information and advertising worldwide continues to work extremely well. We are very pleased with how well this is working at scale.'

AimingClick Instant Search gives a quick reference, translation, explanation for any word or phrase selected in any Windows program. AimingClick is a reference book, dictionary, encyclopedia, Web search service and many other information sources in one software tool.

Ziggs, the fast-growing people search platform for finding professionals online, has announced Ziggs WebPro Service, a search marketing service designed to give professionals who need control over their online presence the ability to achieve it quickly and easily, with minimal time and cost.

AdWatcher.com, an online ad tracking and click fraud monitoring company, has released a new free guide for Pay Per Click advertisers that will help them deal with click fraud and get their money back from the search engines.

A new search engine optimization guide will shed light on the industry's dark side - everything from money back guarantees and duplicate content to keyword stuffing and cloaking.

Globlet, has announced the first qualified google advertising professional in Thailand, further supporting search engine marketing industry leadership.

Traffic Junction, a leader in pay-for-performance marketing solutions, has introduced TJ Optimiser (TJO), a complete web-based pay-per-click (PPC) management solution targeted at affiliates/publishers to manage, monitor and increase the returns on their PPC campaigns with Google AdWords.

Quintura, the next generation web search company, announced the launch of the next generation web search software - Quintura Search.Quintura Search introduces a new approach - The Way People Search that helps a user to search and find information on the web easier and faster by defining the context or meaning of the keyword.

Azul Systems, specialized as the industry's first network attached processing solution designed to unbound compute resources for service-oriented applications such as those based on the J2EE or Java platform, has announced several capabilities for utility computing and data center environments.

ObjectFX Corporation announced the general availability of FleetFX, a software solution for visually monitoring transportation operations. FleetFX is designed to give executives, managers other personnel greater visibility into their operations to help them make better business decisions. The FleetFX solution is based on SpatialFX, the company?s patented Java/J2EE spatial enterprise software platform. The solution will be demonstrated at the American Trucking Association Leadership Conference and Exposition, October 16-19, in Boston, MA.

Recently eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) announced plans to buyVeriSign's payment processing business for $370 million and merge theprocessor with PayPal's operations. PayPal is already the largest onlinepayment company; however, VeriSign's processor would make for a profitableasset, by enabling PayPal to compete with credit card companies known forraising retailer fees. The merge will also help take PayPal beyond its coreauction-based business to now tackle small and medium-sized businesses.

America Online, widely derided in the technical community for years and a poster child for the dot-com boom, is reportedly in play, with search leaders Google, Microsoft, and now Yahoo apparently interested in acquiring it from Time Warner.

The Eden Project the world-leading visitor destination, home to the world's largest greenhouse and the venue to events such as Live8, has appointed Neutralize the UK search engine marketing agency to work on the enterprise search optimization of their new website.

Kanoodle, a top service in Internet-focused paid search listings, and Submitnet, a leading search engine optimization and marketing firm, has announced that they are expanding their partnership by offering Paid Search and Cost-Per-Click (CPC) management.

Fortune Interactive LLC, an interactive marketing firm specializing in search engine marketing, was officially launched by co-founders and world renowned search engine experts, Andy Beal and Michael Marshall.

GE Analytical Instruments has retained the services of leading interactive agency Zunch Communications, Inc. to conduct search engine optimization services and perform website analytics research. The Zunch team will be working in eight languages to improve search engine rankings for GE Analytical Instruments.

Search Engine Optimization experts utilize special software, Internet coding techniques and web design skills to improve website ranking on the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN etc.

Performance-based search engine marketing firm Ravenwood Marketing has announced that it has been selected as a 2005 Horizon Award winner by ValueClick's Commission Junction division. Ravenwood was recognized for achievement in the Greatness category of the Horizon Awards, which honors exceptional year-to-year performance.

Bingo Bango Software Inc., an Atlanta-based start-up, announced the release of Elicit. Elicit, a desktop blogging client, integrates leading web and RSS Services from the internet's giants in one application for the purpose of creating content for blogs.

'Unwiring San Francisco is a way for Google to support our local Bay Area community. It is also an opportunity to make San Francisco a test-ground for new location-based applications and services that enable people to find relevant information exactly when and where they need it,' said Google spokesman Nate Tyler as he confirmed that Google has put in a proposal to provide free Wi-Fi access to San Francisco's 800,000 users.

Cloudmark Inc. and Qpass announced from the CTIA Wireless IT and Entertainment conference that they have partnered to provide mobile carriers all around the world with a new mobile version of Authority, Cloudmark's award-winning gateway solution, to protect against spam, malware and other attacks targeting wireless devices.

Internet advertising revenue in the USA, according to a newly released report by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers, shot up by 26% (to $3BN) in the second quarter of 2005, bringing the total revenue for the first half of 2005 to $5.8BN.

The Watson 2.0 personal research assistant is now available as an Add-in for Windows Desktop Search.

SoundBytes, a catalog, web and retail-based company that specializes in providing assistive equipment for deaf and hard of hearing individuals, announced that it recently hired Bethpage-based company Prime Visibility for the search engine optimization and Internet marketing of its newly re-launched website.

'Google doesn't show even a single page to users who find copyrighted books through Google Print (unless the copyright holder gives us permission to show more),' said Google's Susan Wojcicki, Vice President, Product Management, Tuesday as Google began defending itself in public against the Authors Guild lawsuit to try to stop Google Print.

Statistics show that fewer than .08% of websites are seen by unique visitors unless the exact URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the website is entered. This is because the vast majority of web users utilize search engines to find the information for which they are looking.

Two webmaster forums specializing in assisting website owners and webmasters join forces. The merger creates a larger, more helpful community for webmasters, the forums say.

SiteSpect, a developer of Web site marketing optimization technology, today announced it has released SiteSpect, the first-ever non-intrusive software that enables Web marketers to test and optimize visitor conversation rates without first modifying their sites. Using SiteSpect, Web marketers can run A/B and multivariate tests to learn which site variations are most effective at persuading visitors to take action when visiting critical revenue-generating Web pages.

Intradyn, which focuses on simple, affordable solutions for automated email compliance, has introduced the next version in a line of email archiving appliances it first began marketing in June 2004. The new-generation product, dubbed 'ComplianceVault06,' features improved ease-of-use and sets up in as little as ten minutes. Enhancements incorporated into the product are a direct result of customer input.

Reprise Media unveiled FeedCast, a new patent-pending product that automates the process of building and implementing search engine marketing programs for breaking content. FeedCast is the first product that addresses the greatest need of content providers by dramatically reducing a campaign's time to market. What once required several days can now be done in a matter of hours.

Elixir Systems, a supplier of search engine marketing services has developed the 'Insights into Search for Business' blog. The goal of the blog is to inform, educate and discuss current issues, ideas, and topics of interest relating to online businesses. The topic covered will include search marketing, search engine optimization, link building, content writing, online public relations, marketing, usability and conversions, among others.

On November 1, the RedZee.com search engine will release v2.0 of its toolbar for Internet Explorer, and now Firefox, after a great run with 1.5 which has gained a huge following.

Fastsubmit.org is about to release a 'closed directory' project that is expected to take the web industry by storm: the new directory project is the first of its kind, the company's CEO told SEO/SEM Journal, in that it is based on a business's 'real' existence.

GuruNet Corporation, creators of Answers.com, the answer-based search engine, announced today that it has hired Dr. Barbara Ann Kipfer to its Content Development team.

Working with MSN Virtual Earth, MSNBC.com has devised 'Katrina Flyover,' a collection of one-of-a-kind before and after images of coastal and inland areas damaged by the hurricane, including New Orleans, La., and Biloxi, Miss.

Nanocasting, a model for commercial podcasting based on established media and direct marketing principles, differs from early podcasting by beginning with a clear definition of the target audience, the business model, the revenue model and use of a system specifically developed for targeting commercial audiences called RTS (Really Targeted Syndication).

Truveo, a start-up company emerging from stealth mode, launched a new video search engine that delivers higher quality and more up-to-the-minute results than traditional search engines. Based on a unique technology for indexing video using the visual characteristics of web pages, the Truveo search engine can find video on the Web that all other search engines miss.

In 2005, US Internet advertising spending will surpass $10 billion for the first time, shooting past that mark to $12.9 billion, according to eMarketer projections. That number more than doubles 2002's $6.0 billion figure.

In a move to help advertisers and agencies better manage their digital marketing campaigns, Fathom Online, a leading Search Engine Marketing firm, announced the formation of a new data solutions business unit. Fathom Data Solutions (FDS) has developed an automated data platform that enables advertisers to integrate their sales, website and affiliate data with more than 30 different search engines, online publishers, tracking and optimization companies, such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, Mediaplex and DoubleClick DART.

Google, which has been active in Israel since 2002, is planning to open their Tel Aviv office as part of its global physical expansion program. Google Israel plans to focus on its improving directed advertisements in its search engine, and on selling services to the Israel advertising market.