http://www.searchengineworld.com en-us http://www.searchengineworld.com/gfx/wmwbutton.gif http://www.searchengineworld.com 109 33 http://www.searchengineworld.com/advertising/3456054.htm "In a SearchEngineWorld exclusive interview with Mr. Yavonditte, Brett Tabke, CEO of WebmasterWorld asked about the company and its steady stream of success over the past seven years. ... Yavonditte first made the major announcement about the Time Warner deal... People, CNN, Money, and Time, and a number of the other sites there are now part of our network on an exclusive basis..." http://www.searchengineworld.com/advertising/3456057.htm "...Casale began by telling Tabke, "The domain business, obviously, it's growing," and that the industry is starting to look at domain names as real properties." http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3456060.htm "Warmuz spoke with Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld. Warmuz said, "There is more money in this one little room than all of AdTech or SES put together." http://www.searchengineworld.com/domains/3456063.htm "...Moniker, has been called the "Six Million Dollar Man", for brokering several of the biggest cash transactions in the history of selling Internet domain names." http://www.searchengineworld.com/webhosting/3456066.htm "...Executive Director of HostingCon, the only conference and trade show focusing on the Web's hosted services industry, which held its third annual HostingCon show at the Navy Pier in Chicago. The theme of this year's HostingCon was The Future of Hosted Services." http://www.searchengineworld.com/domains/3456045.htm "Rick Schwartz has been known for some time as the "Domain King" of the Internet domain name industry...He was a pioneer in the history of domain names... In 2004 he sold the domain name Men.com for $1.3 million..." http://www.searchengineworld.com/tech/3456057.htm "The leading Internet social network MySpace announced Tuesday a joint effort with top online phone service provider Skype to offer free Internet calling services to an existing user base of more than 330 million people." http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456057.htm "Internet search and advertising giant Google has reported skyrocketing financial increases for the third quarter ending on September 30, 2007, further increasing the sizable lead it has had on rival competitors such as Yahoo and Microsoft." http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456363.htm "In Brussels, Belgium today the European Commission said that is will extend until November 13, 2007 its decision on whether to give approval to Internet search leader Google's $3.1 billion bid for online advertising tracker DoubleClick, postponing a decision which had been expected from regulators by this Friday's October 26 deadline." http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3456369.htm "AOL, Time Warner Inc.'s Internet division, today unveiled new mobile phone services including an updated mobile portal using the company's mobile search technology. These are part of AOL's reinvention from its years as an Internet Service Provider to becoming a global Internet advertising and content company." http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456393.htm "Leading Internet search company Google today announced a partnership with media firm The Neilsen Company which will further expand the search leader's reach beyond the Web. Google seems determined to do what it can to dominate television advertising the way it has with online ads." http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3456495.htm Current "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Online Tracking Polities Not Enough, Says FTC. If a coalition of privacy, technology and consumer groups have their way, an Internet equivalent to the U.S. "Do Not Call" phone list will soon allow Web users to stop online advertisers from tracking their browsing habits and delivering targeted advertising to them. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456525.htm Defiant 34 Company Plan Pits Google Against Closed Cell Phones. Internet search leader Google today announced its mobile device platform, called Android, and an ambitious multinational initiative called the Open Handset Alliance, which together represent the company's serious and long awaited entrance into the mobile device market. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3456531.htm Will Giving Away Free Business Search Software Threaten Google Mini, Others? Microsoft today unveiled its Search Server Express 2008 software for the enterprise search market. The release, which is now available as a free preview download, was announced at today's Enterprise Search Summit West in San Jose, California. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456540.htm Gas pumps to go online with Google Local Search and Maps. Online search leader Google today announced a partnership with Greensboro, North Carolina-based gas pump maker Gilbarco Veeder-Root that will make Google's mapping and driving directions available at roughly 3,500 gas stations and convenience stores across the United States beginning in early December. http://www.searchengineworld.com/ask.com/3456546.htm Barry Diller to spin off Ask.com and the rest of his huge media and Internet empire. Media giant IAC/Interactive Corp. chairman and CEO Barry Diller is planning to split the corporation, which includes Ask.com, Ticketmaster, LendingTree and the Home Shopping Network among nearly 60 other businesses, into five separate public companies. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456549.htm Search Leader Testing Video Game Ad Delivery System. Internet search and advertising leader Google said Thursday that it is working on methods to display ads in computer games, expanding on the approach used by AdScape Media, an in-game advertising firm it purchased in February for $23 million. http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3456558.htm Patent Pending Semantic Social Knowledge Search Service joins Quigo at AOL. Time Warner's AOL unit announced today its purchase of Israeli Web search service Yedda Inc., and plans to incorporate the company's patent-pending semantic technology into AOL.com services. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3456564.htm Nine New Asian-Pacific Partnerships Announced for Yahoo Mobile Services. Sunnyvale, California-based Internet company Yahoo has announced partnerships with nine additional cell phone operators to provide mobile Web search services in the Asia-Pacific region, bringing the number of its global distribution partners to 20. http://www.searchengineworld.com/tech/3456570.htm ESPN, MTV, CBS Among 22 Partners to Provide Content to Bebo's 40 Million Users. San Francisco-based Bebo, the world's third most popular social networking Web site, has partnered with twenty-two major media companies including ESPN, Turner, MTV, CBS and BBC, and will allow them to add music and video content to its site and to keep any advertising revenue generated while still retaining copyright. http://www.searchengineworld.com/domains/3456576.htm Plans Address Five Billion People Still Without Internet Access. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced Wednesday that it will prioritize creation of domain names using languages not based on the Latin alphabet, in an effort to allow people everywhere to use the Internet in their own language. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456579.htm Winning January FCC Auction Could Allow Google Mobile Phone and Internet Services. Internet search leader Google is ready to bid at least $4.6 billion in a January Federal Communications Commission auction for a portion of wireless spectrum it could use to provide mobile phone and Internet services, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing people familiar with the situation. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3456588.htm New York Times Company Papers to Offer Yahoo Ads, HotJobs and Local Content Syndication. Sunnyvale, California-based Internet company Yahoo has announced the addition of seventeen newspapers to its consortium of online publishing partners, increasing the group's total number of newspapers to 550, including 140 weekly papers and about 415 dailies. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-search/3456594.htm Mountain View, California-based Google continues to increase its dominance over rival Web search companies Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.com, with figures released today showing that its search engine was used for 64.49 percent of all searches conducted in the U.S. during October, nearly tripling the share of nearest rival Yahoo. http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3456600.htm AOL U.K., Time Warner Inc.'s Internet division, today unveiled a new mobile Web portal which promises to make email, browsing and search functionality a more pleasant experience for users of all types of mobile devices in the U.K. http://www.searchengineworld.com/ask.com/3456606.htm Ask.com, the Oakland, California-based Internet search and media company which is a part of media giant InterActiveCorp (IAC), will bring its services to the most populous country in the world within two years, as part of a $100 million initiative to start a new media and advertising company in China, according to IAC chairman and chief executive Barry Diller. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3456612.htm Sunnyvale, California-based Internet company Yahoo suffered widespread service outages within its Merchant Solutions online shopping checkout system used by about 45,000 small businesses, on what is for many Web merchants the busiest sales day of the year, yesterday's Cyber Monday, as it is known in some circles. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456618.htm Mountain View, California-based Google has announced an initiative to produce inexpensive electricity from renewable energy sources, and plans to invest over $200 million in projects promoting wind, solar, geothermal and other potential breakthrough technologies. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456621.htm Google has announced a GPS-like feature in the new version of its free Google Maps for mobile application, using cell phone tower information to show where a person is and to find nearby services and attractions. http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3456624.htm A consortium of publishers seeking greater control over how Internet search engines present Web sites has launched a universal permissions protocol which will, if adopted, increase protection of copyrighted online content such as newspaper articles and books. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456627.htm Representative Joe Barton of Texas, a senior lawmaker and member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee currently looking into Mountain View, California-based Google's $3.1 billion purchase of New York-based online advertising company DoubleClick, has called the Internet search giant's response to requests from two of his aides "chilly" and "disconcerting." http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456630.htm Mountain View, California-based search leader Google has announced a new user-generated Web encyclopedia project dubbed "Knol," that will rival the most popular online reference work Wikipedia. http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3456633.htm The Washington, DC-based non-profit Pew Internet and American Life Project released a study Sunday showing that twice as many adult United States Internet users have searched for information about themselves using a Web search engine in 2006 than did so in 2002, with 47 percent using search engines to locate information about friends, family and co-workers. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456636.htm Google is facing opposition to its $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick, as the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy cited privacy concerns during a Tuesday morning conference call with reporters. http://www.searchengineworld.com/ask.com/3456639.htm Media conglomerate IAC/Interactive Corp. has reached an agreement with online video and television distribution service Brightcove Inc. that will allow syndication of video at IAC's 60-plus Web properties including Ask.com, Match.com, LendingTree and the Home Shopping Network. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3456642.htm Yahoo has formed a partnership with Latin America's leading mobile phone company America Movil that will make Yahoo's oneSearch mobile search service the default for 143 million wireless subscribers in 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries, in what is the largest of the 21 mobile phone search agreements it has announced to date this year. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456645.htm The U.S. Federal Trade Commission gave its approval to Mountain View, California-based Internet search leader Google's $3.1 billion purchase of top online advertising company DoubleClick, saying that the deal was "unlikely to substantially lessen competition" among online advertisers, and shifting focus to the remaining European regulatory investigations the merger faces. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456648.htm A federal appeals court Wednesday handed Google a mixed decision, determining that while the Internet search giant's successful AdSense contextual Web advertising system has not infringed on two patents held by Wisconsin-based Hyperphrase Technologies, LLC, two of three claims related to Google's browser toolbar AutoLink feature must go back to the Wisconsin district courts. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3456651.htm Yahoo ended November as the Web's most popular overall destination according to research released today from comScore Networks, edging out Google's 131.5 million visitors with a figure of 136.1 million, while trailing well behind the search leader in its share of search engine traffic, garnering a 22.4 percent share to Google's 58.6 percent. http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3456654.htm Baidu.com, Inc., among the most used search Web sites in the world, lost its chief financial officer Shawn Wang, who died in an accident on December 27 while on vacation during the Christmas holidays. http://www.searchengineworld.com/ask.com/3456657.htm Oakland, California-based Internet search and media firm Ask.com today saw the stock rating of its $10 billion parent company InterActiveCorp (IAC) downgraded from "buy" to "hold" by financial services company Citigroup. http://www.searchengineworld.com/domains/3456660.htm Los Angeles-based Internet domain name marketing company Oversee.net announced today that it has acquired Pompano Beach, Florida-based "Domain Asset Management" firm Moniker.com from online marketing company Seevast Corp. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-search/3456663.htm A patent filed by Google was published Thursday by the World Intellectual Property Organization, an agency of the United Nations, holds the possibility of expanding the scope of what can be searched online, by recognizing text within the images that make up videos such as those on YouTube. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3456666.htm Sunnyvale, California-based Internet portal and search engine company Yahoo outlined both its mobile "ecosystem" and desktop plans Monday at an address delivered by company co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3456669.htm Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft has made a $1.2 billion offer to acquire Oslo-based enterprise data search company Fast Search and Transfer, the companies announced Tuesday in a joint news release. http://www.searchengineworld.com/tech/3456672.htm Yahoo announced an agreement Wednesday with Dallas-based Belo Corporation, one of the nation's largest media companies, that will see local news video from 13 of Belo's television stations exclusively shown within the respective local news pages of Yahoo News. http://www.searchengineworld.com/ask.com/3456675.htm Internet media conglomerate IAC/InteractiveCorp. late Wednesday named Jim Safka the new chief executive of its Ask.com property, as part of several executive management changes in preparation for an upcoming move to split $10 billion IAC into five separate publicly traded companies. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-adsense/3456678.htm Israel-based Web email firm IncrediMail, a fast-growing publicly traded company with more than 10,000 customers, has seen its advertising service partnership with Mountain View, California-based Google's AdSense program halted by the search leader, sending shares of IncrediMail down more than 40 percent. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456681.htm Mountain View, California-based Internet search leader Google launched an improved suite of mobile Web applications for users of Apple's iPhone at the MacWorld conference Monday in San Francisco. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3456684.htm Yahoo will partner with the second most popular Israeli portal Walla Communications Limited to provide Yahoo's search technology and databases using the Walla Search name, under a strategic cooperation agreement signed Monday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456693.htm Clearwire has signed an agreement with Google that will give its 350,000 wireless customers access to the search leader's popular Web applications suite including GMail and Google Calendar, along with the Google Talk instant messaging service, the firms announced Tuesday in a joint statement. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3456699.htm Yahoo has agreed to adopt the OpenID open source Web identification system that will allow the use of a single sign-on for numerous Web sites, with a public test version becoming available at the end of January 2008. http://www.searchengineworld.com/tech/3456705.htm In addition to being the world's most populous country with an estimated 1.32 billion citizens, China is headed towards overtaking the United States during the coming months as the nation with the most Internet users. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-search/3456711.htm Google continues to be the search engine of choice over rival Web search companies Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.com, with figures released Friday by Web traffic analysis firm Nielsen Company showing that its search engine was used for 56.3 percent of all searches conducted in the U.S. during December 2007, more than tripling the 17.7 percent share of nearest rival Yahoo. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3456717.htm Yahoo expects to announce later this month a plan to lay off what may be hundreds of employees as part of a major reorganization effort to increase profitability and boost sagging stock prices, sources familiar with the matter said Monday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456729.htm Google revealed an ongoing partnership with Paris-based global advertising giant Publicis Groupe SA begun over a year ago for the purpose of improving advertising using the search firm's technology, chief executives from the two companies disclosed Tuesday at an informal press meeting in Paris. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-search/3456738.htm Google has formed a Web search and e-mail partnership with Japan's largest mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo Inc. that will bring many of the U.S. company's services to the handsets of NTT DoCoMo's 53 million customers in Japan by spring 2008 followed by forthcoming services using Google's Android mobile platform. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3456744.htm Microsoft reported quarterly profits that soared beyond expectations and an optimistic financial outlook Thursday, despite economic worries in the United States and $245 million in losses in its online services division, the company announced in an earnings release. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456756.htm Google is considering Malaysia as the location for a forthcoming Southeast Asia server farm and operations center, according to Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi who spoke with Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt during the World Economic Forum taking place in Davos, Switzerland. http://www.searchengineworld.com/ask.com/3456765.htm Liberty Media and its billionaire chairman John Malone filed its second legal action against IAC Monday, looking to remove media mogul Barry Diller and six other directors from IAC's board, setting off increased antagonism in a dispute over control of the $7 billion e-commerce conglomerate. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3456771.htm Yahoo will cut 1,000 jobs by mid-February amidst sharply dropping profits in a move co-founder and chief executive Jerry Yang says is "not tinkering around the edges," the company announced Tuesday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3456783.htm Before taking their Internet search engine company public, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page joined chief executive Eric Schmidt in adding an unusual pact to the firms prospectus that stated the three pledged to work there together through at least 2024, and four years into that commitment the firm today announced fourth quarter revenue of $4.83 billion, an increase of 51 percent over the same quarter in 2006. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3456786.htm Microsoft, the world's largest software company, has made an offer of cash and stock to purchase Internet pioneer Yahoo for $44.6 billion, a 62 percent premium over the Sunnyvale, California-based firm's Thursday stock price of $19.18, representing $31 a share in a move that would reshape the online sector dominated by Google. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3456807.htm Microsoft's Friday offer to purchase Internet company Yahoo for $44.6 billion has drawn the ire of both Web search giant Google, which says the proposed deal raises "troubling questions," as well as the United States House Judiciary Committee which has scheduled a February 8 hearing on the matter. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3456819.htm While Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft is awaiting word from pioneering Internet company Yahoo on whether it will accept Friday's massive $44.6 billion purchase offer, regulators and online search giant Google are preparing for a variety of possible outcomes. http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3456831.htm Time Warner Inc. chief executive Jeff Bewkes revealed Wednesday that the media company will split up the poorly performing Internet access segment of its AOL group, eliminate 100 jobs and look at ridding itself of portions of its cable television unit over the next several months. http://www.searchengineworld.com/ask.com/3456840.htm Ask.com has introduced a news searching Web site called BigNews that incorporates video, image, blog content and popularity rankings from community news site Digg with geo-targeted tracking features, the company announced Wednesday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3456855.htm As Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Internet pioneer Yahoo enters its second week, a U.S. House panel has postponed a hearing on the mater while Microsoft awaits a decision from Yahoo's board that could come as early as Friday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3456864.htm Internet media pioneer Yahoo said Monday that it turned down Microsoft's unsolicited January 31 $44.6 billion takeover bid, dismissing the offer as "not in the best interests of Yahoo," and because it "substantially undervalues" the firm. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3456873.htm Microsoft Live Search has changed the way its Web crawler application operates when indexing millions of Web sites for inclusion in its search engine, adding features aimed at increasing the efficiency of the process by using compression and other techniques to lower the amount of work required by Web servers, the company announced today. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-search/3456882.htm The world's biggest cell-phone maker Nokia and the top Internet search engine firm Google chose Barcelona, Spain's giant World Mobile Congress to jointly announce a partnership adding Google search to Nokia's search application on four new handsets. http://www.searchengineworld.com/tech/3456895.htm The risk of suffering a security breech while browsing the Web has gone up due to compromised Domain Name System (DNS) servers and malicious syndicated online advertising networks, according to reports released this week authored by a researcher at search giant Google and others. http://www.searchengineworld.com/advertising/3456904.htm AOL and InterActiveCorp's (IAC) Citysearch local search and directory division announced a partnership Thursday that will see the firms share online advertising and content across their respective networks. http://www.searchengineworld.com/advertising/3456916.htm Four of the largest newspaper firms in the Unites States, The New York Times Company, Hearst Corporation, Gannett Company and the Tribune Company, have united to sell Internet advertisements through the creation of a new stand-alone company called quadrantONE. http://www.searchengineworld.com/advertising/3456931.htm Three of Britain's top Internet Service Providers have joined forces to try making money by using customer Web browsing and search engine query data to sell online advertising in a deal with a London-based company called Phorm Inc. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3456943.htm Following two weeks of unproductive negotiations, Redmond, California-based Microsoft has retained the services of a proxy contest specialist and has started preparing for a battle over control of Web pioneer Yahoo using an aggressive maneuver to replace the Sunnyvale, California-based company's board of directors. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-adsense/3456952.htm Hoping to earn more from the burgeoning online video market, Google has broadened its online advertising service to include two types of display ads for viewing within Web videos, with the introduction of its AdSense for Video project announced in a limited test form Thursday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3456961.htm The number of Internet Web searches conducted in the United States increased significantly to over 10 billion during January 2008, with search giant Google extending its leading share of the search market to 58.5 percent, more than the four other top search engine sites combined, according to new figures from Web traffic analysis company comScore announced Thursday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3456973.htm Microsoft unveiled a new online advertisement-tracking program Monday able to analyze not only a customer's last click before making an Internet purchase, but also the previous ad clicks that may have led to a buying decision, a technology it calls "Engagement Mapping." http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3456985.htm Web pioneer Yahoo has announced a service that will allow Web site owners to create customized entries within Yahoo's search engine results, detailing its Open Search Platform Tuesday at a technology conference. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-search/3457000.htm Opera Software will switch from using Internet media company Yahoo's search engine, which it has used since January 2007, to that of search leader Google as the default choice for its mobile device customers using the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3457012.htm Google has announced a new online service, called Google Sites, that allows consumers or teams of people to easily create, share and collaborate on media-rich Web sites, in an addition to the company's year-old collection of free online applications executive Dave Girouard likens to "literally adding an edit button to the Web." http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3457018.htm The top Chinese language search engine company Baidu.com, Inc., among the most used search Web sites in the world, will offer a new internally-developed Web instant messaging service to be called "Baidu Hi," the Beijing-based company announced Friday in a statement. http://www.searchengineworld.com/ask.com/3457036.htm Ask.com has faced ongoing speculation that it will abandon its search service and outsource to another firm such as search leader Google, with which it has a five-year, $3.5 billion advertising deal, a scenario parent company IAC/InteractiveCorp. has denied as it instead looks to a day in court next week, where it will defend chief executive Barry Diller's plan to split the firm into four separate companies, and in the process diminish control of Liberty Capital. http://www.searchengineworld.com/tech/3457045.htm Microsoft brought users of its popular Office application suite the ability to work online with documents from programs including Word and Excel, using a new service called Microsoft Office Live Workspace that entered into a global public test Tuesday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/ask.com/3457060.htm Ask.com will reevaluate its aspirations as a mainstream search engine, shifting from competing against search leaders Google and Yahoo to becoming a site catering primarily to women in the United States, and eliminating 8 percent of its workforce. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-search/3457069.htm Google has introduced a free tool for Web site owners to see how their site stacks up against others in various industries, by adding a so-called industry benchmarking feature to its free Google Analytics web traffic measurement and analysis product. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3457081.htm Yahoo has made it easier to find local businesses using its free online mapping service, adding 300 new cities encompassing 12,000 neighborhoods to its most detailed maps, packaged in a new, easier to use format which has added more information about points of interest and expanded global coverage. http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3457096.htm A new study conducted for The New York Times by Web traffic research firm comScore has analyzed the increasing reach wielded by 15 of the top Internet media companies looking to use consumer's Web browsing history to sell more personalized online advertisements. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3457102.htm The Brussels-based European Commission approved Google's $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick, saying in an announcement Tuesday that the merger will not hurt competition for online ads. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3457114.htm Google has added several free developer tools to its popular video sharing service YouTube, which will allow greater integration of the site's videos with other Web sites and the ability to upload new videos and control YouTube accounts from any Web location. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-adsense/3457123.htm Google, hot on the heels of winning European regulator approval of its $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising giant DoubleClick, is racing headlong into expanding its Web ad business with a new free service called Ad Manager that will manage and serve ads aimed at small and medium-size Web publishers. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3457132.htm Microsoft announced Friday that it has signed an agreement to purchase privately held San Francisco-based Internet advertising management firm Rapt, as it looks to strengthen its online advertising services in the wake of search leader Google, which earlier this week finalized its $3.1 billion purchase of Web ad firm DoubleClick. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3457141.htm Microsoft has launched a new more unified support Web site for its pay-per-click advertising program adCenter, bringing a blog, customer support message forums and other services together under one roof in a support site called adCentercommunity.com. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3457156.htm Yahoo, six weeks into a standoff with Microsoft for control of the Web media firm, has said it is on pace to make its earnings estimate for 2008 and predicted that by 2010 its revenue, after advertising commissions, will reach about $8.8 billion, more than 70 percent higher than 2007 figures. http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3457165.htm China's largest online commerce company Alibaba has been in late-stage talks with investors looking to finance buying back a multibillion-dollar 39 percent stake in the firm presently held by Web pioneer Yahoo, in an effort to increase independent management control should Microsoft succeed in its bid to acquire Yahoo. http://www.searchengineworld.com/seo/3457180.htm The number of Internet Web searches conducted in the United States decreased by 6 percent from over 10 billion during January 2008 to 9.9 billion during the shorter month of February, with Google extending its leading share from 58.5 percent to 59.2 percent, more than the four other top search engine sites combined. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3457189.htm Verizon Communications and AT&T may have won the battle by acquiring the two most sought after portions of wireless spectrum during the Federal Communications Commission auction that ended Tuesday with $19.12 billion in total bids, however Internet search leader Google may have won the war. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3457204.htm Google renewed pressure on regulators to approve a "white-space" plan that would allow mobile Web devices to operate at high speeds on unused portions of airwaves between television signals in late 2009 after broadcasters convert to digital delivery, filing an open letter with the Federal Communications Commission. http://www.searchengineworld.com/tech/3457213.htm Yahoo announced Tuesday that it will join an alliance, formed by competitor Google in October 2007, to try making it easier for programmers to popularize their applications on multiple social networking and other Web sites. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3457228.htm Google has added a free metrics feature to its popular video sharing service YouTube, which will allow video creators to see when and where viewers are watching their videos, the company announced Wednesday as it launched its new YouTube Insight service. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3457234.htm Microsoft is preparing to launch a pilot program combining its Silverlight Streaming online video development platform with its pay-per-click advertising program adCenter, that will allow United States users to earn money through a revenue sharing plan. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3457249.htm Sunnyvale, California-based Web pioneer Yahoo has launched a new specialty Web site for women between ages 25 and 54 focusing on their everyday lives, the company announced Monday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3457264.htm Google has added the ability to use its free word processing software Google Docs without an Internet connection, the company announced Monday, placing it in direct competition with Microsoft staple Word. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3457276.htm Microsoft has announced upgrades to its Windows Mobile operating system and Internet Explorer Mobile Web browser aimed at making the mobile Web experience more like what desktop users have come to expect, the company revealed Tuesday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3457288.htm Yahoo, the second-most-used Internet search engine, has expanded its OneSearch software with voice and text recognition features to make Web searching easier and more useful for mobile phone users. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3457294.htm Google had only a cursory interest in winning the federal spectrum auction that concluded last month, and primarily hoped to drive bids high enough to trigger provisions ensuring more open access to any future service using a key group of the airwaves, Google revealed Thursday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3457306.htm Yahoo, the top worldwide Web destination and the second-most-used Internet search engine, has revealed information about a future online advertising system called AMP, that it hopes will help make it easier for advertisers, publishers and partners to sell various types of Internet advertisements throughout the Web. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3457318.htm Google has opened up its vast cloud computing infrastructure resources to developers looking to build and host their Web applications, with a preview free base version of a new service called the Google App Engine. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3457327.htm Yahoo has acquired the assets of Budapest, Hungary-based Web traffic measurement company Tensa Kft, also known as IndexTools, to boost its Web analytics offerings for online marketers. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-adsense/3457342.htm Yahoo, two months into a standoff with Microsoft for control of the Web media firm, announced Wednesday that it will begin limited testing of Internet giant Google's search advertising system, as part of new efforts to show its stockholders the firm is worth more than the $42.4 billion Microsoft bid. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3457354.htm Google and its chief executive Eric E. Schmidt have hired the Qatalyst Group and its leader Frank P. Quattrone, who was cleared of obstruction of justice charges last year, to help advise Google regarding the two-month-old Microsoft battle for control of Yahoo. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3457366.htm San Francisco-based online business software maker Salesforce.com Inc. has expanded a partnership with Internet search giant Google, allowing its sales and marketing software to more easily integrate with Google's Web-based application suite, Salesforce announced Monday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3457378.htm Yahoo has updated its automated Web search engine crawler, called Slurp, with a new version that will be released in phases over the next several weeks, the search engine and online media company announced Monday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3457390.htm Microsoft has quietly launched a news aggregator Web site that incorporates both top national and international news stories along with local news in a format that also prominently features video news clips, with a new service called Live Search News. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3457402.htm Google today announced strong earnings led by first quarter gross revenue of $5.19 billion, exceeding forecasts with an increase of 42 percent over the same quarter in 2007, and an increase in net profit of 31 percent, results that are likely to help ease recent Wall Street concerns that Google has become more susceptible to the economic downturn. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3457411.htm Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft confirmed Thursday that it had acquired Seattle-based Internet travel fare prediction firm Farecast, in a previously unannounced deal that closed on April 9. http://www.searchengineworld.com/domains/3457426.htm More than 70 Internet service providers are using a technique that can put their customers' online security at risk according to computer security expert Dan Kaminsky, who on Friday revealed how users of EarthLink could be targeted for various hacking exploits made possible through an agreement the ISP has with London-based advertising company BareFruit that attempts to make money when people misspell Web site names. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3457441.htm Sunnyvale, California-based Internet pioneer Yahoo on Tuesday announced first quarter earnings that topped analyst expectations but fell short of the type of explosive growth that some felt could cause Microsoft to increase its $44 billion bid for the firm. http://www.searchengineworld.com/tech/3457450.htm Microsoft, the world's largest traditional software company, has begun testing a so-called cloud computing Web-oriented software platform, called Live Mesh, that combines a person's digital information such as pictures, music and application documents, and makes them manageable online. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-adwords/3457462.htm Google has announced the addition of graphical advertisements for mobile phones and devices to its previously text-only mobile AdWords network, as the search leader looks to capitalize on the emerging mobile advertising market. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3457471.htm Embattled Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo has begun a major plan to unify its myriad online services and create a new more social network-like environment for both developers and consumers, the Web pioneer announced Thursday at the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-search/3457486.htm Mountain View, California-based Internet giant Google is looking to improve how searchers find images using its leading search engine, using new methods two of the company's scientists presented in a paper Thursday at a technology conference in Beijing. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3457495.htm Yahoo will outsource the Internet telephone portion of its instant messaging system, functions also known as voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), to Mountain View, California-based startup Jajah beginning later this year, the company announced Tuesday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-adsense/3457510.htm Google announced Wednesday that online advertising company DoubleClick, which it purchased for $3.1 billion in March, has expanded its mobile device ad system to work with mobile ad networks, including Google's own AdSense, in a move aimed at helping advertisers make more money from mobile ads. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google-adwords/3457522.htm Google has added a service for advertising on television to its popular AdWords online ad management system, ending a private invitation-only test begun in June 2007 and releasing the program to all United States-based advertisers. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3457534.htm Google has expanded its custom user interface for Apple Computer's popular iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices to include users in 33 countries using 16 different languages, and added better support for its news aggregation and Google Apps Web applications to the Apple devices. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3457543.htm On Saturday, following more than three months of unproductive negotiations, Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft withdrew its offer to purchase Sunnyvale, California-based Web pioneer Yahoo and was left to consider other measures to help combat the increasingly large role Google plays in the current Internet business. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3457552.htm Yahoo has begun analyzing Web sites listed on its search engine to remove blatantly dangerous sites and warn users before they click on those that might contain spyware, computer viruses or are associated with spam e-mail, in a partnership with security firm McAfee. http://www.searchengineworld.com/microsoft/3457567.htm In the wake of its unsuccessful takeover bid for Web pioneer Yahoo, Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft will focus on the pursuit of "independent paths," according to co-founder and chairman Bill Gates speaking in Tokyo Tuesday. http://www.searchengineworld.com/yahoo/3457582.htm A new Internet search engine format from Sunnyvale, California-based Web pioneer Yahoo that combines text, images and video information on a single results page has been launched in a test form for Yahoo users in India. http://www.searchengineworld.com/google/3457591.htm Google plans to make increased profitability at its YouTube video-sharing Web site the top priority during the rest of 2008, brought about by new advertising techniques for the service, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said Thursday.