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[2004-04-30] Google Ads Boost AOL Revenue
Parent company Time Warner reported that America Online ad revenues increased by $27 million, a benefit of AOL's partnership with everyone's favorite search engine, Google. The partnership calls for Google to display search result ads within AOL's searches.
[2004-04-29] T-shirt Company Denied Google AdWords Campaign
Y-Que, a T-shirt company located in Southern California, has had its AdWords campaign cancelled by Google because of the keywords the company selected to use. Y-Que believes that the basis of Google's cancellation is a move to stifle free speech.
[2004-04-29] Profero Begins Large Ad Campaign For Search Engine AskJeevesUK
A new online ad campaign launched by Profero, located in London, England, is highlighting search engine AskJeeves.com in an effort to have web-users rediscover AskJeevesUK and its "find engine." The campaign is designed to sway people into making AskJeeves their first choice in search engines.
[2004-04-29] Google Finally Files IPO
Search engine Google finally ended mountains of speculation by filing their initial public offering today, April 29, 2004. This means that Google's stock will now be available to the public, although the stock isn't expected to be available for a few months.
[2004-04-29] Google Founders Expected To Keep Control
Search engine Google, in light of their recently announced IPO, have installed a safety net to ensure the founders keep a degree of control. Co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page own 33% of Google's Class B stock and have developed a voting structure that would let them keep the control of their creation.
[2004-04-29] Google Names Yahoo and Microsoft As Significant Competition
In the Form S-1 that Google filed with the SEC this afternoon, the search engine names the companies with whom it has the most competition with. Calling the competition "formidable," Google gave names to the search engines it thinks will give Google the most competition.
[2004-04-28] Terra Lycos Looking To Sell Lycos Portal
Wanting to concentrate on their Spanish language businesses, Terra Lycos has retained the services of Lehman Brother investment bank in an effort to sell its US-related businesses. This appears to include web portal Lycos.com.
[2004-04-28] Digital Impact To Start Marketing Service For Search Engines
Digital Impact, an email marketing service, has announced plans to start a search engine marketing service. The service is expected to begin in the 2nd half of 2004.
[2004-04-27] Google Returns Fire At Digital Envoy
Digital Envoy, a geo-targeting service, on or around March 30th, filed a suit against longtime client Google. The suit claimed that Google has misused Digital Envoy's technology to deliver sponsored search results.
[2004-04-27] Google Has Options When Filing
Anticipation of Google filing their IPO has hit a fever pitch. Originating from the news that Google must reveal their financial information in accordance with SEC rules, the finance world is expecting Google to file an IPO at anytime.
[2004-04-27] Shopping Cart Usability
Usable Shopping Carts Increase Sales E-commerce has been around since 1993 under many different names, but one thing remains constant; shoppers want usable web sites. Without a usable shopping cart the sites typically fail from poor performance. To succeed in the world of e-commerce and on the Internet web sites must be developed to be usable by patrons as well as search engines.
[2004-04-26] New Yahoo Messenger Includes Search
Today Yahoo debuted the beta version of their newest instant messenger, version 5.6. Yahoo's newest version includes all types of bells and whistles, including new avatars and a stealth mode to hide you from certain users.
[2004-04-26] Google IPO News
It seems that Google is getting closer to filing their IPO. The IPO is expected to value Google at around $20-25 billion dollars. Plans for the search engine's public offering have been kept quiet to the point of being secret. Although today, April 26, 2004, comes news of Google making a deal with two investment banks to underwrite the offering.
[2004-04-26] Google In Court Over New AdWords Policy
Google's newest policy concerning bidding on trademarked slogans for AdWords purposes has come under fire. French insurance company AXA has filed suit against the search engine for allowing others to bid on keywords that AXA has trademarked.
[2004-04-26] Google AdSense Serving PSAs
Speculation about whether Google's ad server working or not has come up. The reason for the questioning is because people have found a larger than normal amount of Google public server ads (PSA) where regular AdSense ads should be appearing.
[2004-04-23] Google IPO Looming
According to many financial news outlets, Google is set to announce its plans for their IPO "within days". The initial report came out of The Wall Street Journal, and the speculation about Google's IPO comes from the search engine having to open its financial books up for the SEC.
[2004-04-22] Some Bloggers Allowed Gmail Account
There has been no official announcement of when Google's new email service, Gmail, will be available. Google is currently beta testing Gmail in order to fix any bugs and to tweak Gmail based on user requests.
[2004-04-22] Google Awarded Rights To Froogle UK Domain
Google has secured the rights to Froogle's UK domain name. Froogle.co.uk had been cyber-squatted by LWD Internet, an e-commerce solutions provider. The company registered the domain when Google launched Froogle.com, Google's shopping search engine.
[2004-04-22] Yahoo, Sina Joint Venture 1Pai Accused Of Database Theft
1Pai.com.cn, a Chinese auction house jointly established by Yahoo and the Sina Corporation, has been accused by rival auction house Taobao.com of stealing database information. Yahoo China has stated that they would let the joint venture fight back without their help.
[2004-04-22] Search Engine Ad Revenue Up 35 Percent
Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released the Final Full-Year 2003 Internet Ad Revenue Figures, and the report has revealed that ad sales across the Internet has risen 21% from the previous year. The biggest jump, however, was in keyword sales.
[2004-04-22] Tickle Launches People Search
Tickle.com, a social network, has launched Tickle People Search. This feature was designed in order to "provide Tickle's members with targeted introductions to new friends, romantic partners and business contacts, as well as qualified referrals to products and services."
[2004-04-21] InfoSpace And Google Extend Result Agreement
InfoSpace, Inc. announced today that the company has extended its agreement with Google in order to provide search results and AdWords ads for InfoSpace's web search properties. The agreement, which began in September 2002, has been extended until 2006.
[2004-04-21] Yahoo Japan Online Ad Profits See 64% Increase
Yahoo Japan, the country's largest online portal, according to FinancialTimes.com, reported that its profits more than doubled in the latest financial year. The main reasons for the boost are Yahoo Japan's online auction presence and its online ad revenue.
[2004-04-21] Google To Set Up Research And Development In Japan
According to AsiaTimesOnline.com, Google is planning to establish a research and developmental center located in Japan by June of 2004. The facility will be responsible for refining Google's search software to make it more user-friendly for the Japanese.
[2004-04-21] Walla Communications Plans 1 Gig Email
The Gmail repercussions are being felt throughout the web industry. The controversy caused by Gmail placing ads in emails, the allowance of large attachments, and of course, the 1 gigabyte of storage have all been discussed in great detail.
[2004-04-20] RealPlayer 10 To Include Google Toolbar
RealNetworks announced today, 04-20-04, that version 10 of the company's downloadable RealPlayer will have Google's Toolbar bundled in with the player.
[2004-04-20] AskJeeves Becomes Hotter Commodity
With search engine AskJeeves seeing it's stock rise 8% to $39 a share yesterday due, in part, to Wall Street accolades, the search engine has become an attractive search engine to the big guys.
[2004-04-19] Google May Be Forced To Open Books
A 1934 Securities and Exchange Act may force Google to reveal their financial records by the end of the month. The rule in question states that companies with over 500 stockholders and $10 million in assets must divulge financial results.
[2004-04-15] Defending Organic Search: The Other Side of the Comscore IAB Study
IAB and ComScore recently released the first major study on the effectiveness of sponsored search advertising. Not surprisingly, considering the study was sponsored by Overture and Google, the report was very favorable towards sponsored search, often at the expense of organic search.
[2004-04-09] Mesothelioma Generates Ad Revenue For Search Engines
Asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma has become one of the hottest words in search engine keyword advertising, costing as much as $90 dollars per click in some cases. Considering that most search engine ad words cost around $1 a click, mesothelioma is clearly the industry leader in price per click.
[2004-04-08] Yahoo Doubles Profits, Announces Stock Split
Yahoo released its 1st quarterly report for this fiscal year, and the news for the web's most popular portal was filled with superlatives. The newest report shows that Yahoo more than doubled last year's first quarter profits.
[2004-04-07] AskJeeves Adds Features To Compete With Search Engine Giants
AskJeeves has rolled out a number of new features designed to give you more targeted search results.
[2004-04-05] Affiliate Communication
Communication is Key! When building an affiliate network communicating with affiliates is important for merchants to maintain a good relationship. An affiliate's web site targets visitors, who may not necessarily view a merchant's web site, and therefore expands a merchants market. An affiliate may not be able to actively keep up with the merchants product, it is important for a merchant to keep affiliate's informed about new product information, sales, new releases, links, graphics, promotions and special offers.
[2004-04-05] Froogle Use Grows
It appears that Google's redesigned index page is paying dividends. Last week, Google promoted a link for Froogle, Google's shopping search engine, to its home page. This promotion has resulted in more traffic for Froogle, according to a study by Hitwise.
[2004-04-02] SSL: Myths and Magic
About once a week we get asked if we use SSL certificates. The answer may come as a surprise to our e-commerce friends, considering that we process hundreds of credit card transactions every month.
[2004-04-02] Google Alters Ad Pricing
An announcement from Google concerning the pricing of their AdSense campaign may lower the price of ads that Google places on web pages. Google stated it would be adjusting its prices for these advertisements.
[2004-04-01] Ask Jeeves Strips Down For Users
Making sure they don't miss out on the April 1st fun, Ask Jeeves has "revealed" itself to users. Appearing in a wife-beater and boxers, Jeeves is having what is referred to as a "wardrobe malfunction".
[2004-04-01] New Google Wristwatch Debuts 4/1/4
Get ready for the Google Search Engine Watch. This will give users access to Google search from their wrists.
[2004-04-01] Google GMail Is No Hoax
In response to the buzz surrounding its GMail launch, Google's founders have said that GMail is NOT a hoax.
Parent company Time Warner reported that America Online ad revenues increased by $27 million, a benefit of AOL's partnership with everyone's favorite search engine, Google. The partnership calls for Google to display search result ads within AOL's searches.
[2004-04-29] T-shirt Company Denied Google AdWords Campaign
Y-Que, a T-shirt company located in Southern California, has had its AdWords campaign cancelled by Google because of the keywords the company selected to use. Y-Que believes that the basis of Google's cancellation is a move to stifle free speech.
[2004-04-29] Profero Begins Large Ad Campaign For Search Engine AskJeevesUK
A new online ad campaign launched by Profero, located in London, England, is highlighting search engine AskJeeves.com in an effort to have web-users rediscover AskJeevesUK and its "find engine." The campaign is designed to sway people into making AskJeeves their first choice in search engines.
[2004-04-29] Google Finally Files IPO
Search engine Google finally ended mountains of speculation by filing their initial public offering today, April 29, 2004. This means that Google's stock will now be available to the public, although the stock isn't expected to be available for a few months.
[2004-04-29] Google Founders Expected To Keep Control
Search engine Google, in light of their recently announced IPO, have installed a safety net to ensure the founders keep a degree of control. Co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page own 33% of Google's Class B stock and have developed a voting structure that would let them keep the control of their creation.
[2004-04-29] Google Names Yahoo and Microsoft As Significant Competition
In the Form S-1 that Google filed with the SEC this afternoon, the search engine names the companies with whom it has the most competition with. Calling the competition "formidable," Google gave names to the search engines it thinks will give Google the most competition.
[2004-04-28] Terra Lycos Looking To Sell Lycos Portal
Wanting to concentrate on their Spanish language businesses, Terra Lycos has retained the services of Lehman Brother investment bank in an effort to sell its US-related businesses. This appears to include web portal Lycos.com.
[2004-04-28] Digital Impact To Start Marketing Service For Search Engines
Digital Impact, an email marketing service, has announced plans to start a search engine marketing service. The service is expected to begin in the 2nd half of 2004.
[2004-04-27] Google Returns Fire At Digital Envoy
Digital Envoy, a geo-targeting service, on or around March 30th, filed a suit against longtime client Google. The suit claimed that Google has misused Digital Envoy's technology to deliver sponsored search results.
[2004-04-27] Google Has Options When Filing
Anticipation of Google filing their IPO has hit a fever pitch. Originating from the news that Google must reveal their financial information in accordance with SEC rules, the finance world is expecting Google to file an IPO at anytime.
[2004-04-27] Shopping Cart Usability
Usable Shopping Carts Increase Sales E-commerce has been around since 1993 under many different names, but one thing remains constant; shoppers want usable web sites. Without a usable shopping cart the sites typically fail from poor performance. To succeed in the world of e-commerce and on the Internet web sites must be developed to be usable by patrons as well as search engines.
[2004-04-26] New Yahoo Messenger Includes Search
Today Yahoo debuted the beta version of their newest instant messenger, version 5.6. Yahoo's newest version includes all types of bells and whistles, including new avatars and a stealth mode to hide you from certain users.
[2004-04-26] Google IPO News
It seems that Google is getting closer to filing their IPO. The IPO is expected to value Google at around $20-25 billion dollars. Plans for the search engine's public offering have been kept quiet to the point of being secret. Although today, April 26, 2004, comes news of Google making a deal with two investment banks to underwrite the offering.
[2004-04-26] Google In Court Over New AdWords Policy
Google's newest policy concerning bidding on trademarked slogans for AdWords purposes has come under fire. French insurance company AXA has filed suit against the search engine for allowing others to bid on keywords that AXA has trademarked.
[2004-04-26] Google AdSense Serving PSAs
Speculation about whether Google's ad server working or not has come up. The reason for the questioning is because people have found a larger than normal amount of Google public server ads (PSA) where regular AdSense ads should be appearing.
[2004-04-23] Google IPO Looming
According to many financial news outlets, Google is set to announce its plans for their IPO "within days". The initial report came out of The Wall Street Journal, and the speculation about Google's IPO comes from the search engine having to open its financial books up for the SEC.
[2004-04-22] Some Bloggers Allowed Gmail Account
There has been no official announcement of when Google's new email service, Gmail, will be available. Google is currently beta testing Gmail in order to fix any bugs and to tweak Gmail based on user requests.
[2004-04-22] Google Awarded Rights To Froogle UK Domain
Google has secured the rights to Froogle's UK domain name. Froogle.co.uk had been cyber-squatted by LWD Internet, an e-commerce solutions provider. The company registered the domain when Google launched Froogle.com, Google's shopping search engine.
[2004-04-22] Yahoo, Sina Joint Venture 1Pai Accused Of Database Theft
1Pai.com.cn, a Chinese auction house jointly established by Yahoo and the Sina Corporation, has been accused by rival auction house Taobao.com of stealing database information. Yahoo China has stated that they would let the joint venture fight back without their help.
[2004-04-22] Search Engine Ad Revenue Up 35 Percent
Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released the Final Full-Year 2003 Internet Ad Revenue Figures, and the report has revealed that ad sales across the Internet has risen 21% from the previous year. The biggest jump, however, was in keyword sales.
[2004-04-22] Tickle Launches People Search
Tickle.com, a social network, has launched Tickle People Search. This feature was designed in order to "provide Tickle's members with targeted introductions to new friends, romantic partners and business contacts, as well as qualified referrals to products and services."
[2004-04-21] InfoSpace And Google Extend Result Agreement
InfoSpace, Inc. announced today that the company has extended its agreement with Google in order to provide search results and AdWords ads for InfoSpace's web search properties. The agreement, which began in September 2002, has been extended until 2006.
[2004-04-21] Yahoo Japan Online Ad Profits See 64% Increase
Yahoo Japan, the country's largest online portal, according to FinancialTimes.com, reported that its profits more than doubled in the latest financial year. The main reasons for the boost are Yahoo Japan's online auction presence and its online ad revenue.
[2004-04-21] Google To Set Up Research And Development In Japan
According to AsiaTimesOnline.com, Google is planning to establish a research and developmental center located in Japan by June of 2004. The facility will be responsible for refining Google's search software to make it more user-friendly for the Japanese.
[2004-04-21] Walla Communications Plans 1 Gig Email
The Gmail repercussions are being felt throughout the web industry. The controversy caused by Gmail placing ads in emails, the allowance of large attachments, and of course, the 1 gigabyte of storage have all been discussed in great detail.
[2004-04-20] RealPlayer 10 To Include Google Toolbar
RealNetworks announced today, 04-20-04, that version 10 of the company's downloadable RealPlayer will have Google's Toolbar bundled in with the player.
[2004-04-20] AskJeeves Becomes Hotter Commodity
With search engine AskJeeves seeing it's stock rise 8% to $39 a share yesterday due, in part, to Wall Street accolades, the search engine has become an attractive search engine to the big guys.
[2004-04-19] Google May Be Forced To Open Books
A 1934 Securities and Exchange Act may force Google to reveal their financial records by the end of the month. The rule in question states that companies with over 500 stockholders and $10 million in assets must divulge financial results.
[2004-04-15] Defending Organic Search: The Other Side of the Comscore IAB Study
IAB and ComScore recently released the first major study on the effectiveness of sponsored search advertising. Not surprisingly, considering the study was sponsored by Overture and Google, the report was very favorable towards sponsored search, often at the expense of organic search.
[2004-04-09] Mesothelioma Generates Ad Revenue For Search Engines
Asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma has become one of the hottest words in search engine keyword advertising, costing as much as $90 dollars per click in some cases. Considering that most search engine ad words cost around $1 a click, mesothelioma is clearly the industry leader in price per click.
[2004-04-08] Yahoo Doubles Profits, Announces Stock Split
Yahoo released its 1st quarterly report for this fiscal year, and the news for the web's most popular portal was filled with superlatives. The newest report shows that Yahoo more than doubled last year's first quarter profits.
[2004-04-07] AskJeeves Adds Features To Compete With Search Engine Giants
AskJeeves has rolled out a number of new features designed to give you more targeted search results.
[2004-04-05] Affiliate Communication
Communication is Key! When building an affiliate network communicating with affiliates is important for merchants to maintain a good relationship. An affiliate's web site targets visitors, who may not necessarily view a merchant's web site, and therefore expands a merchants market. An affiliate may not be able to actively keep up with the merchants product, it is important for a merchant to keep affiliate's informed about new product information, sales, new releases, links, graphics, promotions and special offers.
[2004-04-05] Froogle Use Grows
It appears that Google's redesigned index page is paying dividends. Last week, Google promoted a link for Froogle, Google's shopping search engine, to its home page. This promotion has resulted in more traffic for Froogle, according to a study by Hitwise.
[2004-04-02] SSL: Myths and Magic
About once a week we get asked if we use SSL certificates. The answer may come as a surprise to our e-commerce friends, considering that we process hundreds of credit card transactions every month.
[2004-04-02] Google Alters Ad Pricing
An announcement from Google concerning the pricing of their AdSense campaign may lower the price of ads that Google places on web pages. Google stated it would be adjusting its prices for these advertisements.
[2004-04-01] Ask Jeeves Strips Down For Users
Making sure they don't miss out on the April 1st fun, Ask Jeeves has "revealed" itself to users. Appearing in a wife-beater and boxers, Jeeves is having what is referred to as a "wardrobe malfunction".
[2004-04-01] New Google Wristwatch Debuts 4/1/4
Get ready for the Google Search Engine Watch. This will give users access to Google search from their wrists.
[2004-04-01] Google GMail Is No Hoax
In response to the buzz surrounding its GMail launch, Google's founders have said that GMail is NOT a hoax.