| Mar. 6 |  Twitter Changes Prioritize Search, Trends And Featured Users Posted in SEO Industry News by Lane_R_Ellis
San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. has added a more powerful and prominent search function to its popular free micro-blogging service, along with new features for tracking the service's most-discussed trends and users, in an expansion of a limited test begun last month. |
| Mar. 5 |  Yahoo Launches Apple iPhone Inquisitor Search Application Posted in Yahoo by Lane_R_Ellis
Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo has released a free Web search application for users of Apple's popular iPhone that is built on technology from Inquisitor, a start-up Yahoo purchased last May specializing in making mobile searches easier. |
| Mar. 4 |  Google In Global Push To Notify Copyright Holders For Book Search Program Posted in Google Search Engine by Lane_R_Ellis
Mountain View, California-based Internet search giant Google has been conducting one of the largest ever public notice campaigns in order to inform copyright holders worldwide of policies surrounding its ambitious book scanning program called Google Book Search. |
| Mar. 3 |  Google Launches Code Labs For Developers Including 27 API Graduates Posted in Google General by Lane_R_Ellis
Mountain, View, California-based Internet giant Google has launched a new framework for developers using early versions of its latest application programming interfaces, or APIs, and a support system for the services that graduate from the program, with Tuesday's release of Google Code Labs. |
| Mar. 2 |  Microsoft To Expand Hosted Services In 18-Country Global Push Posted in Microsoft by Lane_R_Ellis
Microsoft has made its hosted business applications available to users in 18 countries outside the United States with the Monday release of a trial version expected to go on sale in April, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant announced at the CeBIT trade show in Germany. |
| Feb. 20 |  Google Expands AdSense Program With Font Options Posted in Google Adsense by Lane_R_Ellis
Mountain View, California-based Internet giant Google has added font choices to its AdSense advertising network, for the first time allowing webmasters using the popular Web site monetization program the ability to select from among three fonts, Google announced Thursday. |
| Feb. 19 | Yahoo Blurs The Line Between Display And Search Ads With New Rich Ads Program Posted in Yahoo by Lane_R_Ellis
Yahoo has blurred the line between the graphical banner advertisements known as display ads and traditionally text-only ads, with its new Rich Ads in Search test program that shows images, videos and user-input boxes amidst Yahoo search engine results. |
| Feb. 18 |  Google U.S. Search Share Fell During January, While Yahoo, Microsoft And AOL Saw Rises Posted in SEO Industry News by Lane_R_Ellis
Google saw its share of the search engine market in the United States fall slightly during January 2009, while its three largest rivals Yahoo, Microsoft and Time Warner's AOL each increased their shares, Reston, Virginia-based comScore said in an analysis released Wednesday. |
| Feb. 17 |  Yahoo Announces New Unified Mobile Site And Services Posted in Yahoo by Lane_R_Ellis
On Tuesday at the World Mobile Congress trade show in Barcelona Yahoo announced Yahoo Mobile, an initiative targeting mobile device users that included a new mobile Web site and applications to act as a central access point for mobile users, the Sunnyvale, California-based company revealed. |
| Feb. 16 |  Microsoft Recite Hones Voice Searching Features At Mobile World Congress Posted in Microsoft by Lane_R_Ellis
Microsoft has begun a public test of Recite, a new mobile phone application that records and searches for voice recordings, the Redmond, Washington-based technology giant announced Monday in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress trade show. |
| Feb. 13 | Twitter Takes $35 Million Third Round Funding Posted in Tech News by Lane_R_Ellis
San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. has raised $35 million in third round funding to help expand its popular free micro-blogging service, in an agreement with Institutional Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital that closed Thursday, according to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. |
| Feb. 12 |  YouTube Testing Fee-Based Video Downloads Using Google Checkout System Posted in Google General by Lane_R_Ellis
Google has begun testing a program that makes some videos on its popular YouTube property available for saving as downloads for offline viewing at fees set by the owners of the videos or in some cases for free, the Mountain View, California-based firm announced Thursday. |
| Feb. 11 | Google Expands Wireless Push With New AdSense For Mobile Search Program Posted in Google Adsense by Lane_R_Ellis
Google has expanded its wireless services lineup with a new revenue-sharing program called AdSense for Mobile Search, offering mobile publishers and carriers a co-branded Google search box for their mobile Web properties. |
| Feb. 10 | Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone Sees Business Account Fees Ahead Posted in Tech News by Lane_R_Ellis
San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. envisions a future day when its popular free micro-blogging service will begin imposing usage fees for commercial businesses, according to company co-founder Biz Stone. |
| Feb. 9 |  Google Sync Service Automates Smartphone Calendar And Contact Updates Posted in Google General by Lane_R_Ellis
Google has launched a free service to synchronize calendar and e-mail contact information between its popular online applications and Apple iPhone and Microsoft Windows Mobile-equipped smartphones automatically by using cellphone signals, with the Monday announcement of its new Google Sync offering. |
| Feb. 6 |  Russia's Search Leader Yandex Revenue Rose More Than 80 Percent During 2008 Posted in SEO Industry News by Lane_R_Ellis
Russia's leading Internet search engine company Yandex experienced a revenue increase of more than $300 million during 2008, a rise topping 80 percent over 2007 year end figures, the company announced Thursday. |
| Feb. 5 |  Google Seeks An Escape From Its Investment In AOL Posted in Google General by Lane_R_Ellis
Google has asked Time Warner Inc. to either buy back the 5 percent stake in Time Warner's AOL that Google bought for $1 billion in 2006, or to spin off the ailing property and take it public, Time Warner executives said Wednesday. |
| Feb. 3 |  Fewer Ask.com Searches Drive IAC Interactive To Fall Short Of Earnings Forecasts Posted in Ask.com by Lane_R_Ellis
Internet media firm IAC/InteractiveCorp. released fourth quarter earnings Tuesday that showed a profit slightly short of forecasts and cited a drop in the number of Web searches at its Ask.com and other online properties as a factor in revenue that fell by 19 percent during the quarter. |
| Feb. 2 |  Google Reveals Ocean Imaging In Vast Google Earth 5.0 Upgrade Posted in Google General by Lane_R_Ellis
Google has updated its virtual world mapping software, Google Earth, to include vast amounts of new imagery of the earth's underwater regions along with new features to observe changes in satellite imagery over time and additional images of the planet Mars, the Internet giant announced Monday. |
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