Search Engine Journal

Instant Messaging On Rise at Work and Mobile
Instant Message use in the workplace and on mobile phones and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) is on the rise, according to a new survey from America Online Inc. The second annual survey on instant messaging use in America, released today by the world’s leading interactive services company, found […]

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Is Google the Next Netscape?
To draw a parallel between Netscape & Google in their fight against Microsoft, it is necessary to examine the various similarities between the two situations and see if the tactics that worked then will work now.
Netscape’s business model consisted of selling webservers to organizations. Its legendary web browser hardly brought […]

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Google Blesses Blogger Users with AdSense Advertising
Blogger, having replaced the default Google powered AdSense ads with a search enhanced Blogger task bar, has recently announced that they will now make Google AdSense advertisements available to Blogger members and other personal blog owners via a new program. Biz Stone, a Google employee for Blogger.com, has announced […]

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Friendster Names Ex-AOL Executive VP of Sales
Friendster today announced that it has named Charles Barrett as Vice President of Sales, effective immediately. Charlie will oversee all aspects of advertising sales. His first initiatives will include building a world-class national ad sales team and creating new revenue producing programs. In addition, he will also be responsible […]

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Real Network’s iTunes Price Cutting Bags 1 Million Sales
Real Network’s recent price cutting of iPod compatible song downloads may not be bringing profit to the company, but it is cutting into the iTunes market as well as carving their own song download market before Microsoft enters the picture. Real has announced that they’ve sold 1 […]

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Ask Jeeves Goes to Japan
Ask Jeeves today announced the launch of a beta version of Ask.jp, a new Japanese language Web search engine. Based on the company’s flagship Ask Jeeves search destination, Ask.jp is developed by Ask Jeeves Japan Co., Ltd, a joint venture between Ask Jeeves, Inc. and Japan-based transcosmos inc.
Of the major search […]

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Domain Names Still Important Despite Search Engine Popularity
A common belief is that search engines like Google make specific web addresses, that is, Internet domain names, relatively unimportant. “That is not true,” asserts psychologist Susan D. Griffith, Ph.D. “As in other areas of branding, names are everything, and memorable names on the Internet are more important […]

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Google IPO and Effect on Venture Capital Industry
Will the Google IPO have any impact on the Venture Capital market? FundingPost surveyed 32 Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors for their opinions. FundingPost is happy to share these responses from leading venture investors as it should help guide CEOs of emerging companies who plan on […]

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Google Launches Beta Version of GMail Notifier
So, there are already a thousand applications out there which notify you of a new email on your GMail account… but may be like me you too avoided all of them for fear of them getting redundant with time. Google thought so and released its own version. No […]

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Lycos Releases Two New Search Tools
People Search is a rebranding of WhoWhere.com offering telephone and other data sources including direct links (labeled “professional profile”) to the Eliyon.com database. Eliyon aggregates data from a variety of open web sources. Be careful as some of these profiles might contain old, outdated info.
The other beta, Discussion Search, aggregates […]

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