Google, eBay, Featured at Media Integration Expo12/15/2006 — Google's Audio division, along with e-commerce firms, eBay and Discovery Channel Store, are expected to attend The Electronic Retailing Association's 15th annual Mid-Winter Leadership Conference and EXPO, from January 28-30, 2007.
Read MoreSearch Engine Top Categories, Revealed by AOL for 200612/14/2006 — A new wave of search engine results, dominated by music and entertainment, have been indicated by AOL Search, and AOL Video Search, as revealed in its top searches for 2006.
Read MoreGoogle, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL in Search Engine Study, by McAfee12/14/2006 — According to an updated search engine saftey report, conducted by McAfee, sponsored ads continue to pose high risk, however; Drive-by malware sites are very common, indicating that search engine users continue to be at significant risk of clicking through to web sites that can compromise online safety.
Read MoreSearch Engine, Google, Debuts Transferable Stock Option Program12/13/2006 — Search engine, Google Inc., has instituted a Transferable Stock Option (TSO) program, designed to enable employees to sell vested stock options in an online auction. Employees will still be able to exercise their options, but will also be able to sell their options to financial institutions as an alternative.
Read MoreYahoo! Adds Fox Video News to Finance Division12/13/2006 — FOX Business Now, has been added to search engine, Yahoo!'s Finance division, as its premiere video provider of business news. The agreement was jointly announced by Jeremy Steinberg, Vice President, Digital Media Ad Sales Business Development, FOX News and Scott Moore, head of news and information, Yahoo! Media Group.
Read MoreMemex Secure Search, Saves Sensitive Data12/12/2006 — Memex, Inc.'s new Intelligence Firewall, is designed to allow search query matches, while limiting the amount of detail returned, if access requires a security clearance, or if the data has been marked as sensitive.
Read MoreWebEx Develops Co-Browsing, for Yahoo IM12/12/2006 — A new free plug-in for search engine, Yahoos Messenger, designed to enable instant messaging (IM) users to "co-browse" and simultaneously view websites. Designed to provide collaborative web searches for online shopping, party planning and picture viewing, the new solution can be accessed from Yahoo's Plug-In Picker.
Read MoreE-Commerce Sales Boosted by Google Checkout12/11/2006 — Early holiday sales, according to e-commerce company, Ritz Interactive, have increased 40%, due to a Google checkout promotion, according to the e-commerce camera store.
Read MoreGoogle, Yahoo!, MSN, Lead Search Engines Industry Study12/11/2006 — International market research and data firm, Research and Markets, has issued new reports, analyzing the worldwide markets for search engines, including Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, Ask.com, InfoSpace, Inc, LookSmart, Lycos, Inc, and MSN.
Read MoreSearch Engine for Toys Launches12/08/2006 — Mad For Toys, a new specialist toy search engine, developed to assist Internet buyers while doing their holiday shopping. Designed to facilitate finding gifts online by searching only the UK's best online toy stores, the shops are already hand-picked to cover a wide range of specialist retailers with unique, unusual and hard-to-find items.
Read MoreICrystal to Include Google Adsense on All of Its Web Pages 12/08/2006 — Web page publishing company, ICrystal, Inc., has been approved as a participating company in the Google Adsense web site advertising program.
Read MoreWeb Hosting Report Features Yahoo!, Google12/07/2006 — Search engines Google, Yahoo, as well as major web hosting companies, have been included in a new report by Tier1 Research, covering more than 25 key public and private companies in the mass-market webhosting sector.
Examined in the report, is whether the recent Web.com patent licensing settlement with Hostopia, could have significant ramifications for the hosting industry, which could attract the interest of Google and Microsoft.
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