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Ask Storms In And Shakes Up Search
Updates to results appearing on Ask.com for weather- and earthquake-related queries have provided more visual information and several new features.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-09-29

Podcast and Portable Media Expo Day 1
The first day of the Podcast and Portable Media Expo in Ontario, Calif., kicks off today with an all-star lineup of speakers and experts on the new media form of podcasting. WebProNews made the 2,100-mile trek to glean all we can from this emergent medium.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-09-29

Google Seething Over Belgian Judgment
Being compelled to remove certain news sources from the Google index and Google News was not a big deal for the company, but being required to post the judgment on its Belgian homepage apparently touched a nerve with the search advertising company.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-09-26

Microsoft Readies Its Google Killer
During the Advertising Week 2006 conference, Microsoft will debut the global launch of its digital advertising platform, which will encompass platforms from the PC to mobile devices to the Xbox gaming system.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-09-25

MySpace, Seventeen Join Up For Teen Safety
MySpace is partnering with Seventeen magazine, the National School Board Association and the National Association of Independent Schools to launch a new safety campaign aimed at warning and educating teenagers about the dangers of the Internet.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-09-25

Microsoft Works To Battle Google
Microsoft may set up an online version of its low-end Works productivity suite to compete with offerings from Google and a number of startup companies.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-09-22

Search Shows Your Political Thoughts
The queries people make at search engines demonstrate what is on the minds of the electorate, as the latest data from Hitwise indicated. Abortion, war, and illegal immigration were among the issues U.S. searchers looked for in queries for the twelve weeks leading up to September 16th.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-09-22

Google Base Scrubs Its Face
The homepage for Google Base received a mild makeover in order to improve its usability, particularly by bulk uploaders who can enhance its value by placing a lot of items in Base in one go.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-09-20

Belgians Ban Google From Their News
The Chilling Effects website revealed a judgment rendered by the Court of First Instance against Google that would ban them from indexing Copiepresse's French- and German-language news and photographs.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-09-18

Google.org Aspires To Charity, Profits
Google.org has been getting a fair amount of attention lately. "The philanthropic arm of Google" was formed in late 2004, and, unlike most charitable ventures, is a for-profit entity. Although that sounds somewhat troubling, a recent interview with Dr. Brilliant, the Google Foundation's executive director, should put any fears to rest.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-09-14

SAP Unveils New Search Application
Service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) company SAP AG unveiled SAP Enterprise Search, an application for information workers for locating critical business data from internal and external sources, and for increasing productivity.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-09-13

Google Opens China; Hiring In Japan
Kai-Fu Lee and company now have new office space available to them in China. Meanwhile, Google has begun searching for more engineers in Japan to work on new mobile technologies.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-09-08

Business Better Than Sex For Searchers
Research performed at Queensland University of Australia in Brisbane, Australia, dumped a cold shower on the long-held perception that people do more searching for sex than they do for business or e-commerce ideas.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-09-07

Google Reads 200 Years Of News
News junkies will receive some good news today from Google - a searchable archive of stories from the past 200 years that draws from free and subscription-based services.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-09-06

Google Dials AdWords Onto Mobiles
The Japanese testing of AdWords on mobiles proved successful enough that Google has quietly debuted the service in the US. Do a mobile search using Google and something completely unexpected may appear.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-09-06

Google Teaching SEO To Feds
Search evangelist Adam Lasnik will venture from Silicon Valley to the Capitol Beltway and deliver a session about drawing traffic from Google. The announcement posted at the FirstGov portal, cited in a Webmaster.com thread...
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-09-05

Windows Live Search Vanishes
The nifty Ajax-powered interface and options have vanished from Live.com, replaced with the simple look and feel of the older MSN Search page.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-09-01