Category: Search Engines

I see on the Google blog that Vint Cerf has started working for Google. If you don’t know who Vint Cerf is – you can see the Wikipedia entry on him here – but the abbreviated version is he co-designed TCP/IP while working at the United States Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)…

Wow! The legal battle between Microsoft and Google is really getting interesting. In case you haven’t been following it – the battle is taking place because Google hired one Kai Fu-Lee, formerly of Microsoft, to oversee a research and development centre that Google plans to open in China. Lee started at Google the day after…

News Corp is the multi-billion dollar media company owned by Rupert Murdoch. News Corp’s full year operating income for year ended June 30th 2005, rose 22% to a record $3.6 billion according to their latest earnings release. I see from a report on Jeremy Wagstaff’s site that News Corp – are interested in buying a…

I see from a post on Jason Calacanis’ site that Google appear to have increased the payouts on their Adsense ads by between 10-15%! This appears to be directly related to Yahoo!’s recently announced ad service (the Yahoo! Publisher Network Self-Serve Beta – What a mouthful – it doesn’t even have an easy acronym!). It…

Finally Google are starting to allow subscriptions to their search results – this is a feature that has long been missing from Google’s search function but they appear to be rectifying that now. The subscriptions are currently only available on searches in the Google News site but hopefully they will be extended to all the…

I was reading a story on CNET News.com about how both Google and MSN’s search results appear to differ in their own favour on searches about the Google and MSN legal battle. When I reached the end of the story I saw: (Google representatives have instituted a policy of not talking with CNET News.com reporters…