Search Engine Journal

With both Google and Yahoo offering Olympics-related search services, it’s but natural that Microsoft will come with its own offering. For their part, Microsoft is featuring some ways by which sports fan can find the most up-to-date 2008 Summer Olympics coverage, using of course the Live Search.

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It maybe a bit late for Microsoft, but still for those who have been trying to master a work around into getting their sites to the top of the Live Search results pages will be glad to know that Microsoft’s Webmaster Tools is finally out of beta. And with it comes several new features that […]

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Fans of Google Trends who are also Adwords advertisers and marketers would be glad to know about Google’s new tool which is very similar to Google Trends - the Google Insights for Search. This new tool provides more flexibility and functionality in understanding search behavior and the facility to create world heat map that graphically […]

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Google has enhanced its enterprise search solution, Google Search Appliance by increasing its search capacity to up to 10 million from its previous 3 million limit for enterprise wide document searching.

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Google owns DoubleClick, a digital marketing technology and services provider while Silverlight 2 is a Microsoft product. What would you call an agreement sealed by both entities which happens to be the properties of competing major internet players? Nothing really, it’s just your plain business agreement which is aimed to be both beneficial for both […]

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So, there you go, amidst some tongue-lashing and verbal beating more particulary thrown at Roy Bostock, Yahoo’s nominees to the Board of Directors, all of them were re-elected by the stockholders.
The stockholders also approve the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers as Yahoo’s independent registered public accounting firm but rejected the proposed pay-for-superior performance principle for executive compensation, […]

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So while Microsoft is redefining its Live Search portal with interactive background images, and a search engine startup is hitting on Google’s user privacy policy, Google is the meantime is introducing a new search feature which is aimed at helping users understand how it customized search results.

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If you think the Live Search Cashback was a silly program to promote its search engine, Microsoft might be doing unusual again with the redesign of the Live Search portal. Guess what the redesign is all about?- Background images, which according to the Live Search Team was made to “to find the best way to […]

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It’s been awhile since we last heard of a media company banging on YouTube’s doors for some copyright infringement violations. For the past couple of months, YouTube’s seems to be operating silently with most of its publicity hype centered on its quest to generate ample revenue visa-vis its huge daily page views.
Now, here comes an […]

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Adding to the list of Yahoo shareholders who are “furious” about the failed Microsoft-Yahoo deal is billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens who has to sell his Yahoo shares at a loss  because he was tired of waiting for the deal to materialize.
Interestingly, Mr. Pickens bought his share last May with the hopes that he would […]

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