Yahoo Blogs Open in Japan Yahoo Japan has entered the blogging market launching Yahoo Japan blogs. The move comes following the launch of the Microsoft MSN Spaces service last year and Google’s purhase of Blogger in 2003. Yahoo is currently not disclosing its blogging strategy for English speaking markets but has a track record of [...]

Google Creates Affiliate Program For Referring New Advertisers or Publishers In beta, Google is now offering a $20.00 US bounty for registered referral agents to send new Google AdWords advertisers or AdSense web site publishers to them. Payouts accrue once a referred advertiser spends at least $20.00 in AdWords or a referred publisher earns $75.00 [...]

Look Out MSN Search, Here Comes Gbrowser It is official, the search engine wars are in full swing. On Tuesday, February 01, 2005 MSN officially rolled out its new search solution to all of its websites, including MSN.com. This comes on the heels of growing speculation that Google plans to launch its own browser, possibly [...]

MSN Search Has Come Home After weeks of beta testing and industry raves, MSN has just officially gone live with the new “we’re gonna kick some butt” version of MSN Search – showcasing their search engine’s own technology. I’m honestly a fan of MSN Search and its search relevancy sliding, dynamic results, and integration of [...]

New MSN Search Engine To Challenge Google & Yahoo Microsoft has now officially dumped the Yahoo-Inktomi powered search engine is has been using for MSN Search and released the “final” version of its much touted search engine. Supported by 5 billion indexed pages, it is poised to become one of the most powerful search engines [...]

Google is Now An ICANN Accredited Domain Name Registar Google is now an ICANN approved registrar of domain names, adding a new service which is a sure fit for Google to offer to its AdWords and AdSense advertising network members and in all things Google. Google is now approved to sell seven top-level domains (TLDs) [...]