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May 26, 2006
Yahoo! & eBay in alliance
Link: Yahoo! & eBay in alliance
Filed under: Ecommerce News, Yahoo! News, Search Engine News
Yahoo! and eBay have both announced a strategic alliance in order to face-off increasing challenges from Google and Microsoft.
The alliance provides Yahoo! with exclusive advertising rights on eBay, and Yahoo! will additionally provide improved search technology for the auction site.
In exchange, Yahoo! will ...
Googly bundles with Dell despite privacy fears
Link: Googly bundles with Dell despite privacy fears
Filed under: Hardware News, Software News, Companies News, Desktop search News, Google News
Google and Dell have secured a deal, to have bundled Google software bundled on new Dell PC's.
The deal especially focuses on the installation of Google Desktop Search on Dell PCs, with associated software, and the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer already sintalled.
The deal ...
TorrentSpy: MPAA hacked our servers
Link: TorrentSpy: MPAA hacked our servers
Filed under: Legal News, Internet News
BitTorrent search engine TorrentSpy has accused the MPAA of hiring a hacker, in order to access confidential records from BitTorrent servers.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) - like it's music counterpart, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) - has ...
Nominet register 5 million domains
Link: Nominet register 5 million domains
Filed under: Webhosting News, Webmaster News, Internet News
Nominet - the domain registry that controls .uk domains - is celebrating reaching 5 million registered domains since the company was first formed, in 1996.
According to their records, Nominet registered 2000 .uk domains in their first month of operations.
However, the ...
Norton Antivirus: open to hackers
Link: Norton Antivirus: open to hackers
Filed under: Companies News, Security News
PC World reports that popular anti-virus tools by Symantec - published under the Norton suite of security products - suffers a serious vulnerability.
The vulnerability affects version 10 of Symantec's enterprise antivirus software, and could lead to Symantec customers being attacked and their ...
Rogue ads plague search results
Link: Rogue ads plague search results
Filed under: Yahoo! News, PPC News, Google News, Search Engine News, Security News, Microsoft News, Internet News
A significant number of search engine sponsored listings link to sites containing spyware, viruses, or offer scams to defraud users.
That's the claim of Ben Edelman who compiled a study for SiteAdvisor detailing which search terms were the most likely to call up ...
May 22, 2006
Microsoft releases Vista hardware specs
Link: Microsoft releases Vista hardware specs
Filed under: Software News, Microsoft News
Microsoft has released information on the hardware requirements for running their next generation Windows Vista operating system.
While the processing power and data storage size don't offer any surprises, Windows Vista will demand a whopping 1GB of RAM memory to operate properly.
It will ...
May 21, 2006
PPC clickfraud botnet found
Link: PPC clickfraud botnet found
Filed under: Ecommerce News, PPC News, Yahoo! News, Marketing News, Security News, Google News, Internet News
Security company PandaLabs is reported to have found a huge network of "zombie" computers - whose primary aim is to further clickfraud on Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising.
The size of the network is an astonising 34,000 computers, and reveals the ...
May 18, 2006
Yahoo! still left behind on ads
Link: Yahoo! still left behind on ads
Filed under: PPC News, Yahoo! News, Google News, Search Engine News
In the face of investor concerns and falling stock prices, Yahoo! has mobilised itself to re-assure them with the following message:
"We're still going really slowly with ads, and plan to let Google dominate the advertising market for another year at least."
Of course, that's simply ...
World economy faces inflation fears
Link: World economy faces inflation fears
Filed under: Finance News, Employment News, Business News, Economy News
The world economy is finally showing cracks in confidence, as inflation continues to threaten while consumer spending continues to be lacklustre.
Over this week, stock markets around the world have seen big falls as investors turn bearish.
These fears are being raised as US consumer ...
Google: Your website isn’t important enough
Link: Google: Your website isn’t important enough
Filed under: Google News, Webmaster News, Search Engine News, Internet News, Business News
Google have denied that Google faces a server crisis - but instead claims that a new indexing system will only prioritise for the most important websites.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt had been quoted by the International Herald Tribune last week as stating that Google ...
May 15, 2006
Free porn, but not xxx
Link: Free porn, but not xxx
Filed under: IPTV News, Webmaster News, Internet News
While Hollywood remains frightened of the internet, and especially in allowing film downloads, the porn industry has decided - as ever - to innovate here.
Adult film distribution company, Vivid Entertainment, has struck a deal to sell it's catalogue of X-rated films ...
Social networking drives internet behaviour
Link: Social networking drives internet behaviour
Filed under: Yahoo! News, IPTV News, Legal News, Marketing News, Google News, Microsoft News, Search Engine News, Webmaster News, Internet News
SPECIAL REPORT
Social networking online is becoming an increasingly dominant dynamic in internet user behaviour.
Figures released by analyst group ComScore shows that social networking applications, such as MySpace and FaceBook have become some of the most active sites on the internet.
According ...
May 11, 2006
Google is broken
Link: Google is broken
Filed under: Google News, Search Engine News, Internet News
Webmasters across the internet are reporting that Google Search broken. This appears to be linked with a major change in how Google collects data.
Dubbed "Big Daddy", the system involved taking a snapshot of internet pages onto Google's servers - where data about what those ...
May 8, 2006
UK economy at downturn
Link: UK economy at downturn
Filed under: Employment News, Business News, Economy News
SPECIAL REPORT
The UK economy faces a turning point, after a decade of growth trends across various indicators.
Key areas of weakness include a housing market that is over-valued, rising unemployment, and high energy prices.
Property
It's already been a frequent point of warning in global economic reports ...
May 1, 2006
Google: Our monopoly is not enough
Link: Google: Our monopoly is not enough
Filed under: Google News, Search Engine News, Microsoft News, Internet News
Google has been lobbying US and EU regulators, claiming that Microsoft's new Internet Explorer should be reviewed under anti-trust regulations.
Google concern is that Microsoft's new Internet Explorer will have a search box, that searchers can use to select their search preferred search engine ...
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