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Yahoo Opens Research Center in New York
Yahoo has opened a research center in New York. Yahoo has appointed Dr. Ron Brachman as the new VP, worldwide research operations and he will work out of the new research center. [Read more] [Read more]
Google Introduces Blogger Web Comments for Firefox
Google has introduced Blogger Web Comments. Blogger Web Comments is an extension to Firefox and allows the user to see what bloggers think about the particular website being viewed in Firefox at the moment. [Read more] [Read more]
Google Introduces Music Search Feature
Google has introduced a new music search feature. The new feature provides informaiton about music and artists as a result of music search queries. [Read more] [Read more]
Google AdSense Anncounces New Features
Google has announced new features of AdSense. The new features are sending reports through email, Themed ads, and the option to remove the Google logo from the ‘Adsense for Search’ tool. [Read more] [Read more]
Standalone RSS Ads Better Than Inline Ads
Standalone RSS ads are far more successful than inline ads according to Pheed Read report. Placing RSS ads in every other post yields the highest percentage of click throughs. [Read more] [Read more]
48% of 5.1 Billion Used Google for Search in October
Google leads as a search engine and is ahead of Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Ask Jeeves. In October search queries grew to more than 5.1 billion and nearly half that population, about 48%, used Google. [Read more] [Read more]
Experian Acquires PriceGrabber
Experian has acquired PriceGrabber, who provides online comparison shopping services, for $ 485 million. PriceGrabber will further extend the range of marketing solutions provided by Experian to multichannel retailers and catalogers. [Read more] [Read more]
Google Launches New Homepage API Tools
Google has launched new API tools that developers can use to create application modules. The modules can be added to users’ Google Homepages. [Read more] [Read more]
Dark Traffic – Increases to 83% of Incoming Enterprise Emails
Illegitimate traffic has increased from 64% to 83% of incoming enterprise emails due to a tripling of directory harvest attacks by spammers to find valid email addresses. [Read more] [Read more]
Google Begins to Include Landing Page to Decide Keyword Minimum Bid
Google has begun to include the quality of the landing page, of AdWords ads, to decide the minimum bids for keywords. The Google Quality Score is based on factors such as keyword’s clickthrough rate, relevance of ad text and the number of people bidding for it. [Read more] [Read more]
Alexa Releases Alexa Web Search Platform Beta
Alexa has released Alexa Web Search Platform Beta. Using Alexa Web Crawl, developers will be able to create new search services without spending millions of dollars in search and server technology. [Read more] [Read more]
Google Ireland to Hire 600 People
Google Ireland is going to hire 600 more people for its Dublin offices over the next 2-3 years. [Read more] [Read more]
