Archive for the 'Search Engine Optimisation' Category
Monday, November 19th, 2007
Paglo has launched a public public beta of a search engine designed to help IT administrators manage their networks.
The search engine, which was launched today, allows users to easily find information about the network - how many iPhones are being used, for example, or whether a machine’s security is up to date.
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Both Yahoo and Microsoft have upgraded their search engines in an effort to gain ground on market leader Google.
Google accounts for over half of all Internet searches and holds 75% of the search market in the UK.
Microsoft has upgraded its Live Search service, while Yahoo has provided a more refined search facility, plus [...]
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
Google News has secured licensing agreements with four major news agencies which will help the search engine company generate ad revenue from its news service.
Google News will now run articles from The Associated Press, the Press Association of Great Britain, Canadian Press, and Agence France-Presse. Previously Google News directed readers to other destinations to [...]
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
Search engine Ask has announced a new ‘AskEraser’ tool that will allow users to search the Web anonymously. Ask is the first major search engine to offer this option.
AskEraser will allow users to adjust their privacy preferences to stop their Web search history being stored by the search engine. A user’s privacy settings will [...]
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
Yahoo! has launched SmartAds, a new display advertising product which allows marketers to display customised ads.
The product allows ads to be tailored to appeal to a targeted audience, based on age, gender, location and online activities.
Instead of one generic ad for all, surfers in London could be presented with a version displaying London based [...]
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Monday, June 25th, 2007
The Article 29 Working Group, a panel of EU data protection official, are extending their investigation into search engines’ data retention policies.
The Working Group, led by Supervisor Peter Hustinx, targeted Google in May 2007 and now plans to write to a number of Google’s competitors to request details about the information they keep.
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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
Searchboth.com, a new site from IdeaLabz and the Toll Free Yellow Pages, delivers search results from both Google and Yahoo! in split-screen format.
When a query is typed into the site’s search box, the site displays results from Yahoo! on the left side of a browser and results from Google on the right. Each browser pane [...]
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Yahoo has launched an Internet search system for users of internet-enabled mobile phones.
The service will start in the US, but will be rolled-out to international markets later in 2007.
The service, called OneSearch, which was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics show in January, will focus on providing local information rather than just a list [...]
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
Wikia, the commercial version of non-profit online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is planning to build a search engine which could capture up to 5% of the Internet search market. The search engine would aim to compete with market leaders Google and Yahoo.
The news was revealed by Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, at a news conference in [...]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
A new variant of the Storm Worm has been detected, which inserts unsolicited links into blogs and forums which can infect other users if clicked on.
The original Storm Worm was rand was mass emailed to hundreds of thousands of people in January this year. It was embedded in an attachment claiming to provide dramatic information [...]
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