Yahoo Japan Corp. today reported that first-quarter profit surged 83 percent on gains from advertising and online sales. SUGOI!
Annual profit growth may slow to 49 percent this quarter.
Bloomberg News reports that Yahoo Japan’s group net income rose to 8.31 billion yen ($76.5 million) in the three months to June 30, from 4.54 billion […]
Entries from July 2004
Search Engine Advertising Boosts Yahoo Japan
July 21st, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Why Yahoo! Messenger irritates me?
July 21st, 2004 by Sushubh | 6 Comments
Of all the instant messengers out in the market, I prefer Yahoo! the most. The reason being simple, it works. But well, having used it for so long, I have got used to certain things, which unfortunately Yahoo! is making me change. Here are some of the nuisance value created by the latest version of […]
Majority Uses 2 Word Phrases in Search Engines
July 20th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments
OneStat.com today reported that most people use 2 word phrases in search engines. Of all the search phrases world wide, 30.09 percent of the people use 2 word phrases, 26.83 percent use 3 word phrases and 16.60 percent use 1 word phrase. More and more people use now 3, 4 and 5 keywords since the […]
Ask Jeeves Increases Search Traffic by 150%
July 20th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments
Ask Jeeves has more than doubled its search engine traffic in the first month after acquiring Interactive Search Holdings. The search network’s site traffic rose 150 percent to become the sixth-most-visited Internet property in June, according to comScore Media Metrix.
According to comScore Media Metrix, Ask Jeeves’ monthly unique visitors exploded to 39.3 million, up from […]
Search Engine Optimization Book Offered Free to Charities
July 20th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments
Aaron Wall has made his recently revised best selling SEO Book available to charities free of charge.
Hiring a quality search engine optimization firm can often cost thousands and thousands of dollars, which is well beyond the budget of many charities.
Without proper placement in search engines people who want to help your charity may not be […]
BlowSearch Adds MultiLanguage Search
July 20th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments
BlowSearch, a leading provider of Internet search tools, will provide users with the ability to obtain search results in Spanish, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese and Swedish.
Users simply have to enter a search term in a language other than English and BlowSearch will automatically provide results in that language. In addition, […]
Yahoo Completes Global Yahoo Search Rollout
July 19th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
Yahoo today announced the worldwide availability of the Yahoo! Search Technology platform.
The announcement comes as Yahoo! Kimo/Taiwan launches Yahoo! Search Technology replacing their former Taiwan based search provider. With the deployment of its own algorithmic search technology Yahoo! has created a more comprehensive and relevant search experience for users around the world.
“The completion of […]
“Kerry Edwards” Auctioning off KerryEdwards.com
July 19th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments
If only I was a Kerry, or an Edwards, or both… for the feelgood story of the week - Kerry Edwards, part time bail bondsman, is selling the domain name he bought two years ago - for a pretty penny.
In March of 2002, Indianapolis bail bondsman Kerry Edwards was an average American looking to build […]
Google Marketing Picassa to Bloggers
July 16th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments
Google has kicked up their marketing of Picassa to their community of publishers at Blogger after Google acquired the digital photo company earlier in the week.
In an email that Blogger sends to their users, the Bloggez Buzz, Blogger and Google announced the news to the buzz generating blog community:
Many Blogger users already knew about […]
Microsoft Buys Outlook Search Tool Lookout
July 16th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | 6 Comments
Microsoft just acquired Lookout, a Outlook add on which gives users the ability to easily search email and Outlook related fiels, filling in a huge hole in the MS Outlook program.
Lookout’s product adds a search bar to Microsoft’s Outlook e-mail and organizer application, and it aids in searches of e-mail and files on a PC. […]












