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Hoping to drive users to its new MSN Search service, Microsoft (Quote, Chart) announced it will release a new beta of its messenger client with an embedded search bar. Read the rest of this entry »

FindWhat.com today debuted AdRevenue Xpress, an automated distribution partner program targeting small to mid-sized businesses. Read the rest of this entry »

Author’s experience with MSN bot and google research says MSN bot is bombarding open source sites. For More Detail Click

Danny Sullivan Explained about Google Ad Policies and it is sponsored by Google

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A Pay-Per-Inclusion search engine is a service in which a search engine charges you a certain amount to spider and include your website in its database. For this fee, regular repeated spiderings are guaranteed, so you are sure to be indexed

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Google’s stock touched $127.40 before finishing the Nasdaq session up $8.60, or almost 7.3 percent, to $126.86 — a gain of almost 50 percent from the company’s mid-August initial public offering price of $85. It was second on the Nasdaq’s net gainers list for the day. Read the rest of this entry »

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GOOGLE’S new Chinese news service omits results from web sites blocked by that country’s authorities, raising prickly questions for an online search engine that has famously promised to “do no evil”. Read the rest of this entry »

Writer Kevin Newcomb reports on Google’s launch of Google Local Canada and the integration of local search results into Google.ca. These new services offer Canadian users similar local information available on its U.S.-focused Google Local, including business listings, maps, directions and related Web pages.

Using Google hacks – requests typed into the search engine that bring up cached information on networks — hackers are discovering and using login details for networked photocopiers so they can watch what is being copied.

“You don’t have to be a genius to do this,” said Jason Hart, security director at Whitehat UK. “You can see what people are photocopying on your monitor. You just have to search for online devices on Google.”

Google stores billions of Web URLs and information sent from Web servers. Some Web servers, if configured incorrectly or left to default, can accidentally broadcast network information, such as IP addresses, login details and device information. Google, like many other search engines, stores this information, which can be recalled at any time

Google Inc.’s recently launched news service in China doesn’t display results from Web sites blocked by that country’s authorities, raising prickly questions for an online search engine that has famously promised to “do no evil.'’ Read the rest of this entry »

In today’s competitive markets, it’s a well-known fact that trademarks and well-known brand names can achieve a much higher conversion rate than with generic keywords. That statement makes a lot of sense. In fact, the direct response television (DRTV) advertising industry estimates that about 21% of consumers watching commercials for an “As seen on TV” product, type the brand name of the product directly in the search box of search engines such as Google, Yahoo and others. More

The latest entrant in the search-engine wars, A9 (a9.com), doesn’t try to reinvent search technology but focuses on making searches more efficient and accessible. A subsidiary of Amazon.com More

TELSTRA’S highly profitable directories business, Sensis, has lodged global patents for part of its new internet search engine in a bid to stymie growing competition from global search giants Yahoo and Google.Sensis search chief Greg Ellis said the patents related to the company’s online system Bidsmart, which let advertisers choose their level of payments based on auction process. More

While Microsoft may fancy capturing some of Google’s search action for itself, Google could well be taking an opposite tack and trying to steal a march on Redmond’s dominance of the browser world. Having poached some of the brains behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, according to the New York Post, speculation is mounting that following the launch of its own brand email, Gmail, the next logical step for the search giant to bring out its own browser. More

LookSmart today announced the release of Net Nanny 5.1, an updated version of its Internet filtering software, and the first version to include family-safe Web search. Net Nanny 5.1 has a suggested retail price of $39.95 for new buyers of Net Nanny and is a free upgrade for all Net Nanny 5.0 users, available at www.netnanny.com.
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HOPING to emerge from the shadow of its more popular rivals, Ask Jeeves is adding new tools for visitors to save and organise links to web pages they find through the company’s online search engine.The free features, scheduled to be unveiled Tuesday, represent Ask Jeeves’ latest attempt to get a leg up on industry leaders Google and Yahoo. More

Google, $1.67 billion richer from its August initial public offering, is spending its money poaching the brightest minds from arch-rival Microsoft and other tech giants. Based on the half-dozen hires in recent weeks, Google appears to be planning to launch its own Web browser and other software products to challenge Microsoft. Google has wooed Joshua Bloch, one of the main developers of the Internet programming language Java, from Sun Microsystems. More

Google has already booke a domain gbrowser.com on 2004-Apr-26. The New York Post indicates maybe so, as detailed in this article.

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Overture will soon make a major switch, matching terms on a broad basis, rather than the traditional exact match default it’s followed since the company launched. More