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Google Announces Holiday Goodies
Google has announced holiday goodies for Gmail users. The new services available are Gmail Mobile, Vacation Autoresponder and Gmail Contact Groups. [Read more] [Read more]
Google, Microsoft to Fund $7.5 million Internet Lab
Google, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems will together fund a new $7.5 million internet research laboratory. This funding is to help entrepreneurs introduce groundbreaking ideas to mass audiences. [Read more] [Read more]
Tucows Buys Critical Path
Tucows, Internet services firm, has signed an agreement to buy Critical Path, interactive agency, for $8 million in cash. Tucows will offer Critical Path’s Memova Messaging software as a hosted service. [Read more] [Read more]
Google Advertising on TV?
Google has been running a 15-second sponsorship spot on PBS’s science program NOVA. The tag line ends with, “Google is proud to support NOVA in the search for knowledge”. [Read more] [Read more]
Online Ad Spending to Grow 10% per Year from 2005 to 2010
Online display and search advertising spending will grow at an average annual rate of 10% between 2005 and 2010. Branding-focused ads of Media and entertainment, financial services and automotive industries will drive this growth rate. [Read more] [Read more]
Google to Open Engineering Office in Pittsburgh
Google is going to open an engineering office in Pittsburgh. Dr. Andrew Moore will run the Pittsburgh office. [Read more] [Read more]
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]
