Search Engine Journal

Online sales sped past the $100-billion-mark in 2003, surpassing all industry expectations. According to The State of Retailing Online 7.0, an annual Shop.org study conducted by Forrester Research of 150 retailers, 2003 online retail sales jumped 51 percent to $114 billion. The study also reported that online sales represent 5.4 percent of all retail sales.1 […]

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Rocket launched their Java based RSS reader a couple of months ago. Here’s our ResourceShelf post from 3/9/04. Yesterday, the Canadian company announced a couple of new features.
What’s New
+ Rocket RSS Channl Directory - The company has developed a Directory of RSS Channels and has been busy categorizing and organizing thousands of RSS & […]

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Since November 2003, the good folk at Google have found themselves on a public relations roller coaster. As the biggest and most popular search tool ever, one would think that Google had nothing to prove. Realistically though, the Internet is a participatory medium built on the experiences of live-users as well as a business medium […]

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Tokyo police arrested two men on Sunday for allegedly obtaining client data from Internet service provider Softbank BB Corp, in a massive leakage of such data that came to light in January, investigative sources said.
The two unemployed Tokyo men had threatened to leak the private information of customers of Yahoo BB broadband Internet service provider.
Mainichi […]

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Microsoft and MSN is pumping up the volume on search, and not just a web search engine. Yusuf Mehdi, MSN’s top executive, announced the company will soon release technology to enable users to search e-mail, their hard disks and the Internet. The feature will be part of a new beta release of the MSN service, […]

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Yahoo has released a beta version of its downloadable toolbar in the US that will detect and remove unwanted software (AKA spyware) installed on user PC’s. Yahoo will be testing the anti-spyware technology, which has been supplied by antispyware company PestPatrol.
The software will be available to a limited number of users and no date has […]

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On May 3rd ResourceShelf’s GaryPrice posted a list of domain names that were registered in April and included the word Google.
Many of our readers found the list interesting and Gary is at it again with a new list. According to ResourceShelf more than 500 Google-based domain names have been registered so far this month. […]

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Google has had a meteoric rise to stardom. I remember an article I saw in PC World Indian Edition in the year 1999 which mentioned this small startup with a funny name. I passed it on like yet another search engine which were booming in those days. Who could have thought that day that in […]

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Advertising network monster ValueClick has launched a new total search engine advertising and contextually targeting package bundling banner ads, keyword listings and rich media ads, sold on a cost-per-click basis.
Dubbed ChannelSearch, the advertising package includes:
* Standard Graphical Ads - Strategic placement of web-based display ad units across the most contextually-relevant of 17 targeted content […]

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Yahoo just officially launched their new Yahoo Messenger 6 upgrade after weeks of beta testing by Yahoo users (Search Engine Journal editors included). The upgrade is a fresh of breath air for Yahoo, adding music, games, photos, and Yahoo Search to their popular Yahoo Messenger Service.

“With the all-new Yahoo! Messenger we are using the […]

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