| Oct. 6 |  Ask.com Overhaul Returns To Question And Answer Roots Posted in Ask.com by Lane_R_Ellis
Ask.com, operator of the fourth most used Internet search engine site, rolled out a major upgrade to its search property aimed at providing speedier and more robust first page answers to users who type questions into the site's search box. |
| Oct. 3 |  Senator Asks For Continuing Scrutiny Of Proposed Yahoo-Google Advertising Deal Posted in Yahoo by Lane_R_Ellis
The chairman of the U.S. Senate antitrust subcommittee, Senator Herb Kohl, has urged the Justice Department to continue scrutinizing possible antitrust ramifications stemming from the proposed search advertising deal between Yahoo and Google even if it receives eventual approval. |
| Oct. 2 |  Google Overhauls Web Blog Search Tool Posted in Google Search Engine by Lane_R_Ellis
Google has overhauled its tool for searching the Web's massive number of blogs, with a major update released Wednesday to its Blog Search service that added subject categories, graphs and other changes aimed at making the previously spartan tool a more interactive way to find writing on what it called a "massive mix" of blogs. |
| Oct. 1 |  YouTube HotSpots Feature Shows Most And Least Watched Segments Within Videos Posted in Google General by Lane_R_Ellis
Google has added a feature to its popular online video property YouTube it calls HotSpots, that was able to show a second-by-second popularity graph for of each video, a measurement tool that could allow video producers to fine tune their online works and gain bigger online audiences. |
| Sep. 30 |  Microsoft Global Enterprise Search Design Center Moving To Norway Posted in Microsoft by Lane_R_Ellis
Microsoft plans to base its primary research and development operations for enterprise search in Norway, chief executive Steve Ballmer said Tuesday while in Norway as part of a multi-nation trip in Europe. |
| Sep. 29 |  Yahoo President Decker Defends Deal With Google While CEO Yang Touts APT Platform Posted in Yahoo by Lane_R_Ellis
Yahoo has stepped up efforts to sell its two most important initiatives, with president Susan Decker looking to draw support for the Web pioneer's proposed search ad deal with Google, while chief executive Jerry Yang sought to tout the benefits of Yahoo's new digital ad system. |
| Sep. 26 |  Visa Banking On Google Android Mobile Phone Tie In Plan Posted in Tech News by Lane_R_Ellis
Visa, the largest payment network in the United States, will provide certain online banking features to users of mobile phones using Internet search giant Google's Android operating system and certain phones from mobile manufacturer Nokia beginning this year. |
| Sep. 25 |  Yahoo Rolls Out Transformative APT Web Advertising System Posted in Yahoo by Lane_R_Ellis
Sunnyvale, California-based Web pioneer Yahoo has begun rolling out its newly renamed APT platform for buying and selling online display advertising, releasing details of the previously named AMP project at a Wednesday event in New York. |
| Sep. 24 |  Time Warner Said To Discuss Sale of AOL Unit To Yahoo Posted in SEO Industry News by Lane_R_Ellis
Time Warner Inc. may enter into talks with Sunnyvale, California-based Web pioneer Yahoo aimed at fashioning a deal to sell off its Internet services group AOL, according to a new report. |
| Sep. 23 | Yahoo To Form Advertising Council Amidst Growing Opposition To Deal With Google Posted in Yahoo by Lane_R_Ellis
Web pioneer Yahoo has begun forming an online advertising and media council called the Digital Advisory Council, to meet beginning later this year and comprised of up to 20 members from digital marketing firms and ad agencies, the Sunnyvale, California-based company announced Monday. |
| Sep. 22 |  Google In Unfamiliar Trailing Role In Some Large Markets Posted in Google Search Engine by Lane_R_Ellis
Google has grown to become the leading Internet search engine company in most global markets, yet it still lags far behind among the populations of a small group of key nations such as China and Russia, where local search firms such as Baidu and Yandex have flourished. |
| Sep. 19 |  Google Increases Lead On Microsoft And Yahoo As It Remains Top U.S. Search Engine Posted in SEO Industry News by Lane_R_Ellis
Google extended its leading share of the United States search market during the month of August to 63 percent, nearly doubling the combined shares of the four other top search engine sites with an increase of 1.1 percent over July figures. |
| Sep. 18 |  Microsoft Live Search Shows Off First Powerset-Based Additions Posted in Microsoft by Lane_R_Ellis
Microsoft has unveiled the first improvements resulting from its July purchase of search engine startup Powerset, adding features based on Powerset technology to the Web's third most popular search engine, Microsoft's Live Search. |
| Sep. 17 |  Google Audio Indexing Searches Speech Within YouTube Videos Posted in Google Search Engine by Lane_R_Ellis
Google has expanded an internally developed method that lets users of its popular video sharing site YouTube search for words or phrases spoken within certain videos, with the Tuesday launch of Google Audio Indexing. |
| Sep. 16 |  Google AdWords Program Changes Expected To Increase Costs For Top Spots Posted in Google Adwords by Lane_R_Ellis
Google has made changes to the way its popular online ad management program AdWords works that are expected to generate more revenue for the search leader by increasing the costs advertisers pay for the top ad spots. |
| Sep. 15 | Yahoo-Google Search Deal Comes Under European Union Review Posted in Google General by Lane_R_Ellis
A search advertising deal proposed in June between Yahoo and Google faces two new obstacles, as the European Union Competition Commission said that it has been investigating the agreement between the top two search engine firms. |
| Sep. 12 | Yahoo Open Strategy Plan Pushes Forward With Property Redesigns Featuring More Third Party Posted in Yahoo by Lane_R_Ellis
Yahoo pushed forward with plans to offer its 500 million users worldwide redesigned homepage, music and email sites featuring more third party services such as Netflix movie and Apple iTunes music access, executives with the company said on the eve of hosting a Friday conference for outside developers. |
| Sep. 11 |  Google Search For Windows Mobile Gets Virtual GPS Technology Posted in Google Search Engine by Lane_R_Ellis
Google has given its Windows Mobile device searchers the same free GPS-like cell tower identification technology it brought to mobile Google Maps users last year. |
| Sep. 10 | AOL Seeks To Improve Portal With More Third Party Content Posted in Tech News by Lane_R_Ellis
In an effort to draw more consumers and advertisers, Time Warner Inc.'s Internet services group AOL has refashioned its homepage to pull in information from third party sites including email previews from Google and Yahoo. |
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