Search Engines Coming to User Desktops

Search and Internet Community monsters Microsoft, Yahoo and EarthLink are all looking into growing their online search engine business by providing access to their search solutions via "taskbars" that would be displyed on the PC screen, and not in the browser- like current popular Internet toolbars. Taskbar search tools are similar to popular toolbar software (such as Google toolbar, Yahoo's … [Read more...]

Search and Internet Community monsters Microsoft, Yahoo and EarthLink are all looking into growing their online search engine business by providing access to their search solutions via “taskbars” that would be displyed on the PC screen, and not in the browser- like current popular Internet toolbars. Taskbar search tools are similar to popular toolbar software [...]

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January 12, 2004 | 1 Comment | Read Story

Shopping.com Has Record Holiday Shopping Season

The shopping search engine Shopping.com has announced that it served a record number of holiday shoppers this season, which has turned out to be a watershed event for retailers across the Web. Online retail sales during the holiday season (November and December) grew to $12.5 billion according to comScore Networks, an increase of 29.5 percent [...]

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January 10, 2004 | 3 Comments | Read Story

Surewest Launches Search-Driven Internet Yellow Pages

Surewest Launches Search-Driven Internet Yellow Pages The Kelsey Group Client Alert: Volume III, Issue 1, January 7, 2004 Greg Sterling, Managing Editor, Kelsey Group Used with permission of The Kelsey Group In the first instance of what The Kelsey Group anticipates will be a trend over the next two years, SureWest Directories has introduced a [...]

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Google Chooses Morgan Stanley for IPO

Google Inc hired Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc to manage its initial public offering, a sale that may raise as much as US$4 billion, a banker involved in the transaction said. Mountain View, California-based Google may sell a stake of about one-third in the IPO, giving the company a market value of about [...]

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January 9, 2004 | 4 Comments | Read Story

Organic Search Engine Optimization

Organic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is simply a marketing term for the natural development of a website. Organic SEO allows a website to gain free listings within the major search engines without regular ongoing marketing costs. SEO comprises many aspects to complete a total marketing package. The difference is whether the SEO package is natural [...]

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January 9, 2004 | 2 Comments | Read Story

Yahoo Dropping Google Search

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Yahoo! is expected to drop Google as the primary search technology on its site within a few months. Yahoo was widely expected to dump Google in part because it spent more than $2 billion last year to buy search technology through its acquisitions of Inktomi Corp. and Overture [...]

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January 6, 2004 | 7 Comments | Read Story

Top Yahoo Searches of 2003

In search of enlightenment and answers, information seekers the world over turned to Yahoo! Search in 2003. File-sharing program Kazaa beat out heavy hitters like Harry Potter and Britney Spears to take top overall honors. War in Iraq and rumors of cloned babies topped news searches, while American Idol and Survivor continued to outlast their [...]

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January 5, 2004 | 2 Comments | Read Story