Archive for May, 2006
Friday, May 26th, 2006
Yahoo! and eBay have both announced a strategic alliance in order to face-off increasing challenges from Google and Microsoft.
The alliance provides Yahoo! with exclusive advertising rights on eBay, and Yahoo! will additionally provide improved search technology for the auction site.
In exchange, Yahoo! will promote Paypal, which was recently acquired by eBay.
The move demonstrates continuing consolidation [...]
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Friday, May 26th, 2006
A significant number of search engine sponsored listings link to sites containing spyware, viruses, or offer scams to defraud users.
That’s the claim of Ben Edelman who compiled a study for SiteAdvisor detailing which search terms were the most likely to call up rogue ads across different search engines.
Certain keywords were found to be especially vulnerable [...]
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Thursday, May 18th, 2006
In the face of investor concerns and falling stock prices, Yahoo! has mobilised itself to re-assure them with the following message:
“We’re still going really slowly with ads, and plan to let Google dominate the advertising market for another year at least.”
Of course, that’s simply paraphrasing Yahoo!’s press release - but the message is essentially the [...]
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Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Google have denied that Google faces a server crisis - but instead claims that a new indexing system will only prioritise for the most important websites.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt had been quoted by the International Herald Tribune last week as stating that Google faced a server crisis, and was no longer able to store all [...]
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Monday, May 15th, 2006
SPECIAL REPORT
Social networking online is becoming an increasingly dominant dynamic in internet user behaviour.
Figures released by analyst group ComScore shows that social networking applications, such as MySpace and FaceBook have become some of the most active sites on the internet.
According to their statistics, the busiest websites in April 2006 were:
1. Yahoo!,
2. MySpace.com
3. MSN-Microsoft,
4. Time Warner [...]
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Thursday, May 11th, 2006
Webmasters across the internet are reporting that Google Search broken. This appears to be linked with a major change in how Google collects data.
Dubbed “Big Daddy”, the system involved taking a snapshot of internet pages onto Google’s servers - where data about what those pages contain could be explored more efficiently, saving bandwidth for Google.
However, [...]
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