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Twitter Changes Prioritize Search, Trends And Featured Users
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:52 pm on Mar. 6, 2009 (utc 0)
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.
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Google U.S. Search Share Fell During January, While Yahoo, Microsoft And AOL Saw Rises
Lane_R_Ellis, 12:05 am on Feb. 19, 2009 (utc 0)
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.
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Russia's Search Leader Yandex Revenue Rose More Than 80 Percent During 2008
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:28 pm on Feb. 6, 2009 (utc 0)
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.
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AOL Laying Off 700 Employees Citing Weak Online Advertising Market
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:54 pm on Jan. 29, 2009 (utc 0)
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.
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Yandex To Replace Google In Mozilla's Russian Language Firefox Web Browser
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:35 pm on Jan. 12, 2009 (utc 0)
Mozilla will change the default search engine provider from Google to Russia's leading search firm Yandex for users of the next Russian language version of its popular Firefox Web browser, according to Mozilla vice president and general counsel Harvey Anderson.
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Google And Baidu Among 19 Firms China Has Accused Of Spreading Vulgar Content
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:09 pm on Jan. 5, 2009 (utc 0)
China has accused 19 companies, including for the first time the two leading search engine firms operating in that country, Google and Baidu, of spreading vulgar and pornographic content, according to an announcement made Monday by a group of seven government agencies.
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Kosmix Search Engine Raises $20 Million From Time Warner, Others
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:30 pm on Dec. 9, 2008 (utc 0)
Mountain View, California-based Kosmix may share its headquarters in the same city as Google, however the search engine start-up has no aspirations for toppling the search Goliath, at least not directly, even after it announced on Monday that it had acquired $20 million in funding.
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New AOL Event Listing Site When.com Powered By Zvents Search Engine
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:58 pm on Nov. 3, 2008 (utc 0)
AOL has launched a new online event listing service called When.com, aimed at giving its users a way to find out about local live performances, family activities and other happenings, driven by event-based search technology from San Mateo, California-based company Zvents.
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China's Top Search Engine Firm Baidu Reports Large Quarterly Profit
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:38 pm on Oct. 23, 2008 (utc 0)
Baidu.com, one of the most used search Web sites in the world, has reported strong revenue growth for the third quarter of 2008 with net income rising by 91 percent and profits topping estimates, despite a decrease in usage during the Olympic games held in Beijing.
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Google Saw Strong September Query Growth Despite Slight Market Share Drop
Lane_R_Ellis, 3:13 pm on Oct. 15, 2008 (utc 0)
Google saw strong September search query volume with in increase of 35 percent from the previous quarter and 38.6 percent from the same month in 2007, according to new figures due to be released by Web traffic analysis company comScore.
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Time Warner Said To Discuss Sale of AOL Unit To Yahoo
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:18 pm on Sep. 24, 2008 (utc 0)
Time Warner Inc. may enter into talks with Sunnyvale, California-based Web pioneer Yahoo aimed at fashioning a deal to sell off its Internet services group AOL, according to a new report.
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Google Increases Lead On Microsoft And Yahoo As It Remains Top U.S. Search Engine
Lane_R_Ellis, 8:59 pm on Sep. 19, 2008 (utc 0)
Google extended its leading share of the United States search market during the month of August to 63 percent, nearly doubling the combined shares of the four other top search engine sites with an increase of 1.1 percent over July figures.
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Google Hints At Eroded Value In Its 5 Percent AOL Stake
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:01 pm on Aug. 8, 2008 (utc 0)
Internet search leader Google signaled that the 5 percent stake in Time Warner's AOL it purchased in 2006 might be worth considerably less than the $1 billion price tag it paid, the Mountain View, California-based company suggested in a quarterly report filed Thursday.
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Google Remains Top U.S. Web Property As Search Share Falls Slightly
Lane_R_Ellis, 7:20 pm on July 22, 2008 (utc 0)
Google and its collection of Web properties remained the top online destination in the United States in June, holding on to the position it gained for the first time from in May from Yahoo.
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Microsoft Lends Support To Icahn In Yahoo Proxy Contest
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:48 pm on July 7, 2008 (utc 0)
A flurry of letters and public statements Monday saw Microsoft lending its clear support to Carl Icahn as he continued to wage a proxy contest seeking to gain control of Yahoo in August when shareholders hold their annual vote for directors.
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Adobe Helps Google And Yahoo Index Web Flash Content
Lane_R_Ellis, 12:54 am on July 2, 2008 (utc 0)
Adobe has entered into a collaboration with Google and Yahoo that will make some information contained within Web sites using the San Jose, California-based company's ubiquitous Flash animation software available for the first time through Web searches.
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Powerset Testing Semantic Web Search With Wikipedia
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:52 pm on May 12, 2008 (utc 0)
San Francisco-based Internet startup Powerset began testing search technology Sunday that it hopes will lead to pulling better answers from the Web by understanding the meaning of written information online.
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Google Tops February comScore Search Figures
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:38 pm on Mar. 20, 2008 (utc 0)
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.
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China's Alibaba Looks To Buy Back Yahoo Stake Should Microsoft Bid Prevail
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:14 pm on Mar. 19, 2008 (utc 0)
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.
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15 Major Web Firm's Personal Data Usage Studied
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:29 pm on Mar. 10, 2008 (utc 0)
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.
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China's Top Search Engine Baidu Adds Messaging, Security Services
Lane_R_Ellis, 7:09 pm on Feb. 29, 2008 (utc 0)
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.
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January Web Searches Rise, Led by Google
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:51 pm on Feb. 22, 2008 (utc 0)
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.
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Time Warner To Split AOL
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:21 pm on Feb. 6, 2008 (utc 0)
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
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Holiday Accident Claims CFO of China's Top Search Firm Baidu
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:52 pm on Dec. 31, 2007 (utc 0)
Baidu.com, Inc., among the most used search Web sites in the world, lost it's chief financial officer Shawn Wang, who died in an accident on December 27 while on vacation during the Christmas holidays.
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Pew Study Shows Adults Increasingly Search For Themselves Online
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:20 pm on Dec. 17, 2007 (utc 0)
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.
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Publishers Unveil Universal Permissions Protocol
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:14 pm on Nov. 30, 2007 (utc 0)
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.
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AOL Introduces PC-like Mobile Web Portal Experience
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:46 pm on Nov. 21, 2007 (utc 0)
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.
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AOL Buys Second Web Firm of Week, Yedda
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:10 pm on Nov. 12, 2007 (utc 0)
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.
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Plans for Internet "Do Not Track" List Questioned
Lane_R_Ellis, 8:23 pm on Nov. 3, 2007 (utc 0)
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.
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New Mobile Search Part of AOL Reinvention
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:29 pm on Oct. 23, 2007 (utc 0)
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.
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David Warmuz: Founder of Trellian on Domaining, SEO and Keywords
Lane_R_Ellis, 7:49 pm on Oct. 14, 2007 (utc 0)
"...Warmuz spoke with Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld ... they discussed Trellian's latest news and the current state of the SEO industry"
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Visual Search Engine Quintura Gains Accolades
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:07 am on June 15, 2007 (utc 0)
Today Internet search engine company Yahoo named start-up visual search engine Quintura one of its “25 Web Sites to Watch,” a listing of web sites Yahoo considers innovative and worth visiting.
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New Search Engine Site Sproose Wants Your Vote
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:53 am on June 14, 2007 (utc 0)
Danville, California-based Internet search engine site Sproose today announced that it has indexed over two billion web pages, according to a press release by company CEO and founder Bob Pack, who is a former executive from Internet Service Provider Netzero. Pack helped to raise Netzero’s initial funding in 1998.
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New Mahalo Search Engine
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:36 am on June 6, 2007 (utc 0)
A preliminary test release version of a new search engine web site called Mahalo was launched on May 31, 2007 at the Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital” conference in Carlsbad, California, and hopes to put a more human touch on web searching.
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