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Yahoo Tells Google To Stuff Its Subpoena
As part of its legal fight against publisher and author groups suing it over its book-scanning practices, Google sent subpoenas to Microsoft, Amazon.com, and Yahoo to gather information about their participation in similar book-archiving operations.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-11-30

Google's Future In Television
Google is not likely to become a TV network, according to Richard Kimber, Google's managing director of sales and operations for South East Asia.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-11-28

Google Helps News Publishers With Sitemaps
An expressed desire for better indexing from Google News has prompted Google to release a Sitemaps product specifically for those news publishers.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-11-22

ComScore: Google Leads Again In Search
The numbers reported for US search engine market share remained mostly unchanged from September to October 2006, with Americans doing 6.8 billion searches during the month.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-11-21

Google Has Long Road To Hoe To Pass Yahoo
As GOOG climbs above $500 per share, as predicted to happen about this time last year before the great January plunge, questions as to just how high Google can get, in terms of stock, search share, and visits, get more intense. Last week, a Citigroup analyst predicted Google would overtake Yahoo in visits by the end of 2007. Hitwise disagrees.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-11-21

Yahoo! Jammed By Peanut Butter Memo
An internal memo by a senior vice president at Yahoo, where he extensively criticizes the company's practices and culture, was leaked to the media; Yahoo comes across as a firm caught in a bureaucratic malaise, where too much duplication and too little passion are the order of the day.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-11-20

Google's Click To Call Ripe For Abuse
Google is testing a new service called Click-to-Call. It allows users to be connected to businesses they are searching for on the results page. When you click on a business you then enter your phone number. Google then connects you to that business.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-11-20

PubCon: Catch The Viral Wave
When a particular campaign goes viral, where people forward a marketing message to others until it snowballs, the resulting traffic and awareness can be very impressive. Achieving a viral quality for a message is not something that can be just coded and pushed out the door; it takes a combination of efforts to reach that status.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-11-17

Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Launch Sitemaps.org
Watch the WebProNews exclusive video in which Chris Richardson interviews Tim Mayer of Yahoo and Vanessa Fox of Google. They talk about their new Sitemaps.org partnership.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-11-16

PubCon: Battelle Looks To The Future
"The Search" author and Federated Media chairman John Battelle delivered today's keynote at WebmasterWorld's PubCon in Las Vegas, and WebProNews was in the room, taking notes and nudging the other participants.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-11-15

Google Wants To Start Up Your Domain
Users who participate in the Google Apps for Your Domain service from Google have a new option available, a custom start page for members of the organization.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-11-14

PubCon: 10 Tips for Successful Innovation
Guy Kawasaki delivered the opening keynote address at this year's PubCon. In his talk, he gave a detailed overview outlining ten specific points that innovative companies should heed when developing new products and services.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-11-14

Doctor Google To The OR Please
The British Medical Journal published a research paper on the benefits of using Google for researching medical conditions, but anyone who has been reading Dilbert creator Scott Adams' blog since March already knew this.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-11-10

Microsoft Goes 3-D With Map Search
Virtual Earth 3D launched from Microsoft as a response to Google's Earth program, with Microsoft's version running in the browser as a plug-in instead of as a separate program.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-11-07

A Look Ahead: SEW Minus Danny Sullivan
Search Engine Watch and Danny Sullivan have been synonymous in the minds of search professionals for several years. After November 30th, Sullivan will no longer post to the SEW blog. WebProNews asked a group of well-known search industry pros for their thoughts on the day after Sullivan files his last blog entry under the SEW brand.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-11-07

Internet Now Serves 100 Million Websites
The World Wide Web was created as a mechanism for scientists to post text and images, and share them with colleagues. Keep that in mind the next time you visit sites with Flash navigation, embedded videos, sound clips that play when the site loads, and advertising on display.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-11-02

The Future Of Web Video
Just what direction web video is going raises a challenging question. While Youtube has been an obvious success for the short video clip format, will there be a sustainable market for longer form web video?
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2006-11-02