Lycos yesterday announced details from The Lycos 50, the 50 most popular Internet search results for the week ending Sept. 3, 2005. 'Hurricane Katrina' is the most-searched news event since September 11 attacks. No other hurricane, says Lycos, with the exception of Hurricane Floyd, which hit number one in Sept. 1999, has generated the amount of search activity that Katrina currently sees.

360i Search, the Search Marketing Division of 360i LLC, announced that 22 of its employees have received certification as Google Advertising Professionals. The 360i Search team met multiple requirements and passed the rigorous Google Advertising Professional Exam in order to achieve Google's recognition as a qualified and tested AdWords professional.

American Honda Motor Co., Inc. President and CEO Koichi Kondo presented the company's Premier Partner Award to Intrapromote, LLC of Cleveland, Ohio for excellence in search engine optimization (SEO) for American Honda's family of Web sites. Intrapromote has worked with Honda since 2003 and oversees SEO programs for sites ranging from Acura and Honda Cars to Honda's Financial Services and Power Equipment sites. Intrapromote was one of 15 award recipients selected from 51 suppliers nominated by American Honda associates nationwide.

Lycos today announced details from The Lycos 50, the 50 most popular Internet search results for the week ending Sept. 3, 2005. 'Hurricane Katrina' is the most-searched news event since September 11 attacks. No other hurricane, says Lycos, with the exception of Hurricane Floyd, which hit number one in Sept. 1999, has generated the amount of search activity that Katrina currently sees.

Farlex, Inc., publisher of the world's largest online database of reference information, unveiled a redesigned Web site featuring improved functionality aimed at streamlining the search process for reference information.

The rising stars of online marketing are no longer just professionals with post-graduate degrees, but programmers and webmasters with the knowledge and know-how to optimize a site's ranking on key-word search engines. It's with this in mind that the renowned www.BeTheDealer.com has launched its second Search Engine Optimization contest for the web's best and brightest Engine Crackers.

Caphyon has announced the release of Advanced Link Manager 1.0, a tool that helps manage your web site incoming links. Advanced Link Manager runs on Mac OS X, Windows 98/2000/XP, and Linux.

A new generation of reciprocal link exchange software named LinkAssistant is aimed to oust famous ARELIS, which is considered to be the most popular link exchange tool nowadays.

Universal Engine's Toolbar includes multilingual chat communication, which enables users to chat in over 65 language-to-language options, using the 11 most used European and Asian languages, via their native tongue by simply selecting a language they would like to speak.

Bnet Software announced that its SEO Catalog Generator will generate an optimized HTML catalog of a reatiler's items from a database. That catalog can be used in conjunction with Google Sitemaps to get indexed more effectively by the Google search engine, a goal of SEO professionals and online businesses everywhere.

'Today's Microsoft announcement stating that the company's Phishing Filter Add-in for MSN Search Toolbar is the first such technology to be integrated into a Web search toolbar is incorrect,' says Kevin Brand, vice president, product management, EarthLink: EarthLink launched its ScamBlocker in April 2004, he notes.

RapidSolution Software today releasedPodSpider, new software for Microsoft Windows that provides intuitiveaccess to the world's largest directory of US and international podcasts.The software is available via free download at http://www.podspider.com.

'These latest add-ins provide people with the opportunity to add value to their MSN Search Toolbar for one of the most popular online activities - online games - while protecting their browsing experience,' said Dane Glasgow, product unit manager for MSN, as MSN today unveiled two new MSN Search Toolbar add-ins: the first phishing filter for any web search toolbar and easy access to MSN Games.

Webmasters and Search Engine Marketing experts will gather to discuss the latest news issues, challenges, technologies and developments in an informal networking environment. Such events are high productivity networking sessions for webmasters and for businesses seeking practical Internet marketing solutions.

icrossing, the largest independent search engine marketing firm, has recently expanded the number of internal thought leaders to address key issues within the search space on www.r eversedirectmarketing.com . This expansion is in conjunction with an updated look and feel to complement icrossing's monthly e-newsletter, The Reverse Direct Marketer.

Topseo.org, a self-inspired group of Indian SEO Experts and Internet Marketers today announced the official launch of the Search Engine Optimization and Internet Marketing Forum: Top SEO Guru.

Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), the leading developer of enterprise search and real-time alerting technologies, and IntelliReach Corporation, the email lifecycle management company, today announced an OEM partnership to enhance the search capabilities of IntelliReach?s next-generation messaging management system.

If this goes ahead, it will make Yahoo! the first major tech company to move into San Francisco since Microsoft set up there five years ago - it will also make Yahoo! the city's biggest tech resident.

Answers.com, the answer-based search engine, has announced a concerted, multi-pronged marketing effort aimed at sharing the numerous benefits of its free service with students, educators and parents.

Gofish.com enables the searching of audio files including music tracks, albums and play lists. This also includes lyrics, mobile ringtones and games.

This application provides you with a step-by-step assistance in optimizing your web pages for Top-10 positions in major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. Using this tool, you can analyze the relevance of all important ranking elements of a web page, update any of the elements and immediately see how this optimization may affect your web page ranking. All these operations can be done with ease in one window.

A non-profit IT testing and training facility dedicated to helping Ohio technology businesses,is hosting an all-day search engine marketing seminar presented by leading search engine marketing experts Matt Bailey and Jennifer Laycock. Bailey and Laycock are requested speakers at search engine marketing conferences,including Danny Sullivan's world-renowned Search Engine Strategies conferences.

Getting your company's news and announcements in front of the millions of people who read search engines' news results every day is the goal of a new service offered by Oneupweb, the trusted leader in search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing (SEM). The new online marketing service, PReach, extends the reach of a company's public relations efforts by optimizing press releases for distribution on the web.

The Online Broadcast Network, today announced that it is providing video content to search engines via RSS feeds. Top search engines including AOL Search (htt p://search.aol.com/aolcom /videohome), Microsoft's WindowsMedia Search (www.windowsmedia.com), SingingFish (www.singingfish.com) and Blinkx (www.blinkx.com) are using ROO's RSS feeds to harvest its extensive media library of over 5,000 titles.

SEO firms can charge an arm and a leg for a year's search engine submission. Micrositez.com think they have the answer. They now offer one years free search engine submission with every website they sell! That's 12 separate monthly submissions to all of the internet's biggest and best search engines.

To help the hoteliers and hotel marketers better understand and to create an effective Internet marketing strategy, Lodging Interactive has produced an Internet search engine marketing primer.

A new study of 350 U.S. health care sites found that most of these companies fail to properly use basic natural search engine optimization (SEO) techniques that can help produce online sales leads.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.2-million grant to researchers in the Penn State School of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and the University of Kansas to enhance and improve the CiteSeer academic search engine which receives more than 1 million hits a day and is heavily indexed by Google and Yahoo.

Search Engine Marketing is gaining importance. It is the hot topic de jour, with figures from the Advertising Association suggesting a 30% increase in online advertising spend this year.

Nielsen//NetRatings, a global leader in Internet media and market research, released the top 10 search engine share rankings for July 2005. Without any surprise, it was Google which led the pack followed by Yahoo!

It's not too early to start speculating about the 2008 presidential race in the U.S. So perhaps it's not too early to start speculating about the ultimate fate of Baidu.com, the Chinese search-engine company that made a spectacular IPO debut recently.

Google is not only taking on rivals Yahoo, MSN, and AOL in the instant messaging space by combining internet telephony and IM in its new Google Talk service, but also challenging early market leader Skype in the telephony space. Will a Google browser someday emerge as well?

Google continued to be the global search leader, according to a study conducted by UK researcher Keynote Systems. But its search results don't differ substantially from those of competitors Yahoo, MSN, AskJeeves, or Lycos.

A security flaw reported by a French investigative team earlier in the week was first described as 'serious' in wide-ranging reports, but is being downplayed by Redmond. The flaw was reported by the French Security Incident Response Team, and affects systems with Visual Studio 2002 and certain Office XP installations.

Google's stock almost tripled in value since its initial IPO. Buoyed by this success and by recent profitable results, the company has announced that it will make more than 14 million new shares publicly available.

Geico won a trademark suit in a U.S. court, preventing Google from serving up Geico's name as part of Google's AdWords service. The court ruled that trademarked words cannot be offered as part of the AdWords service.

Conforté par la performance du modèle économique de Léon de Bruxelles depuis trois ans et par la progression de sa trésorerie, le groupe propose aux créanciers du plan un remboursement par anticipation et pour solde de tout compte à hauteur de 50 % du solde.

Ryman's blog can be read at ryman.eclipsedeveloper sjournal.com. He is the latest i-technology celebrity whose blog is syndicated on SYS-CON's branded blog-n-play community pages next to James Gosling, Marc Fleury, Ben Forta, John C. Dvorak, Alan Williamson and others.

Reports that Google has put in an official policy not to speak with CNET stem from an article the news organization recently did in which it googled Google CEO Eric Schmidt to demonstrate how easily it is to obtain personal information these days.

Omniture, the largest and fastest-growing providerof on-demand Web analytics, today announced that Matt Belkin, vicepresident of Omniture's Best Practices Group, will be a panel speaker atthe Aug. 8-11 Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, Calif. Thediscussion, moderated by Eric Peterson of Jupiter Research, will give ahigh-level overview of the best ways to measure online marketing successand which statistics really matter. Belkin will share insight from his morethan 10 years of experience in driving online marketing campaigns andincreasing ROI at companies including Macromedia, Inc. and Adobe Systems,Inc.