Google Lords It Over The Mobile Search Sector
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 18 June 2008 | Tagged as: Google, Search, Mobile, Cellular
New figures show the search engine giant with over three times the market share of second-placed Yahoo.
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Google News Now Has Video Embedded
Posted by Simon Perry on 16 May 2008 | Tagged as: YouTube, Services, Video Services, Google, Search
Google extends video playback to Google News.
We’ve known for a while that Google Search has been displaying video results with the ability to expand and play within the search results - in fact it was about a year ago.
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Google Consolidates Its #1 UK Search Engine Ranking
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 12 May 2008 | Tagged as: Services, Google, Search
Like Billy Bunter on pie-eating day, Google continues to grow and grow.
TorrentSpy: $110m Court Fine: MPAA Happy
Posted by Simon Perry on 9 May 2008 | Tagged as: Services, USA, Search, Legal
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has won $110 million damages against TorrentSpy, a site that pointed to where TV programmes and films could be downloaded without them being paid for.
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Yahoo Takeover News Catchup
Posted by Simon Perry on 10 April 2008 | Tagged as: News Corp., Investments, MySpace, Microsoft, Yahoo, Advertising, Google, USA, Search
The tussle between Yahoo and Microsoft has gone through a couple of extra rounds of late. We thought we’d bring you up to date with the current state of play.
Back in Feb Microsoft offered Yahoo $44Bn. Yahoo said no thanks.
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Ask Offer Users ‘Privacy Switch’
Posted by Simon Perry on 11 December 2007 | Tagged as: Privacy, Services, Search
Ask.com is to allow users of its search engine to delete all of their queries from their server - a stark contrast to other major search engines, especially Google.
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Le Moteur Search: FranceTelecom Takes On Google
Posted by Simon Perry on 5 December 2007 | Tagged as: France, Services, Search
Do you remember back in the early Web days when everyone wanted to start their own search engine? You couldn’t move for people starting search engines, then Google hit and everyone - bar Microsoft, their huge cash pile and their Live search - backed away.
FranceTelecom have now launched their search engine, Le Moteur - The […]
Google Increases Search Market Share Further
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 26 November 2007 | Tagged as: Content, USA, Google, Search
Search behemoths continue to surge past rivals in the US
Advanced Search: Is The Name A Problem?
Posted by Anders M Olausson on 21 September 2007 | Tagged as: Google, Search
When you’re preparing a newspaper for the world of on-line news, helping your audience find the information they need is paramount.
Anders M Olausson, CTO of hd.se (a local Swedish newspaper/site) ponders the problem.
According to Google only 1% of the searches uses “advanced search”. It’s a remarkable low figure if you think about how tough some […]
Japan Fund Google Rival: Are They Joking?
Posted by Simon Perry on 6 September 2007 | Tagged as: Business, Google, Search, Web
Japan has stuck €89m-€95m in to a research project to try and build a search engine to rival Google, reports the FT.
10 Japanese companies are pooling their talent, as they’ve just noticed that hardware isn’t selling so well, South Korea and Taiwan are making and selling just what Japan is - but much cheaper. Oh, […]
