Yoqoo.com Inks $12 Million Funding01/02/2007 — Video sharing, search and distribution platform, Yoqoo.com, has inked a $12 million private equity funding deal, with Sutter Hill Ventures, Farallon Capital and Chengwei Ventures.
Read MoreKeywords Dictate Holiday E-Commerce12/22/2006 — In the third quarter of 2006, the majority of an index designed to track search campaigns for marketers, reported an average of 38 percent increase in search spend. This holiday season, marketers were advised to use Cost per Keyword (CPK) to evaluate the overall performance of campaigns.
Read MoreShopWiki.com Redesigns its Search Functionality12/22/2006 — ShopWiki, an online product search and independent buying guide company, has developed an improved, rebranded and redesigned user interface. The new look was designed to communicate its message to users, right from the home page, featuring some of the most interesting products the site crawls.
Read MoreSocial Networking Conference to Spotlight Google, Yahoo!, MSN12/21/2006 — Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. will host a Social Networking Industry Conference, scheduled to be held on January 15-16, 2007 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, featuring community building, advertising strategies, venture capital, software, video, user generated content (UGC), and web 2.0.
Read MoreLeast and Most Search Terms of 2006, Revealed by Dogpile12/21/2006 — According to statistics, an estimated 66 percent of the U.S. online population conducts at least one Internet search each day, and searches are revealing more insight into the nation's collective interests. Search engine, Dogpile.com, has released its most popular Internet search terms of 2006.
Read MoreSearch Engine, Acquires Bestoftheweb.com Domain Name12/20/2006 — In an ongoing effort to expand intellectual property and strengthen its' online brand, search engine directory, Best of the Web, procured the highly-prized domain name, bestoftheweb.com.
Read MoreNuclear Scientist Releases Search Engine Evolutionary Study12/20/2006 — According to Dr. Riza C. Berkan, nuclear scientist and CEO of hakia, the new meaning-based search engine, there are seven evolutionary changes coming for search, in 2007.
Read MoreNASA Collaborates with Google, for Space Station Tracking, Data Management12/19/2006 — NASA's Ames Research Center, has enlisted search engine, Google, to collaborate together on a variety of technical issues, ranging from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing, to human-computer interfaces, in a Space Act Agreement.
Read MoreClickZ Network, Search Engine Watch Partner, Hires New Editor12/19/2006 — Incisive Media's ClickZ Network, a partner site of Search Engine Watch, has named Rebecca Lieb, as its new Editor-in-Chief. Business information provider, Incisive Media, revealed the new appointment, at the recent Search Engine Strategies conference (SES) in Chicago.
Read MoreSearch Engine Technology Firms, IRP Technology, SearchInform, Collaborate12/18/2006 — SearchInform search technologies, will be used by large-scale system integrator and developer, IRP Technology, to incorporate it's similar search feature, designed to enable assessment of the level of document similarity to the query.
Read MoreGoogle Partners with GoDaddy, eNom, to Provide Domain Names12/18/2006 — Google is entering the domain name marketplace, to provide its users with domain registration services, under a new platform, with domain registrars, eNom and GoDaddy.com.
Read MoreLYCOS Reveals Top Internet Search Terms of 200612/15/2006 — The results of LYCOS' user searches from Jan. 1, 2006 through Nov. 25, 2006, have been released, in its annual list of top 50 search terms for the year 2006.
Poker generated more online interest than any other search term with LYCOS users in 2006.
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