http://www.searchengineworld.com en-us http://www.searchengineworld.com/gfx/wmwbutton.gif http://www.searchengineworld.com 109 33 http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3459123.htm Google has reported a 156 percent increase in the amount of unwanted e-mail spam targeting users of its Postini enterprise system between November 2008 and data from earlier this month, a rapid increase from the 25 percent annual 2008 rise the Internet giant announced Monday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3459129.htm At the close of the market Tuesday Yahoo released its first quarterly earnings results under recently hired chief executive Carol Bartz, with fourth quarter results showing revenues down 1 percent to $1.80 billion from the same quarter one year earlier. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3459135.htm Google has launched an effort called Measurement Lab that is aimed at making it easier to measure how ISPs manipulate subscriber Internet connections, Google chief evangelist Vint Cerf, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol that underlies the Internet, announced Wednesday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3459144.htm Time Warner Inc. will cut 10 percent of its workforce, or as many as 700 jobs, from its Internet services group AOL, in order to help curtail losses brought about by a weakened online advertising market, AOL chief executive Randy Falco wrote in an internal memo Wednesday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3459150.htm Microsoft, the maker of the popular Web browser Internet Explorer, has released a free tool for users of Mozilla Corp.'s open source rival browser Firefox that provides search engine suggestions for Live Search, the Redmond, Washington-based software maker's search service. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3459159.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/ask.com/3459165.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3459174.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3459183.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3459189.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/tech/3459195.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-adsense/3459204.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3459213.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/tech/3459219.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3459225.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3459234.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3459240.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3459246.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-adsense/3459255.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3459261.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3459267.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-search/3459273.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3459279.htm 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. http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3459285.htm 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.