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Searchengine Origins
Searchenginewatch has an interesting article on the origin of the names of all the important searchengines.
Yahoo! doubles profits
Yahoo! has more than doubled their profits in the third quarter, thanks to a strong growth of the advertisement devision. At the same time, they raised their yearly estimates. A large part of the advertisements should come from the PPC-entrys to the Yahoo! searchengine.
Amazon Webservices now in MS Office
Amazon and Microsoft announced that from now on, they will integrate the Amazon Webservices into Microsoft Office. Amazon's XML-interface will be able to show fitting articles from the Amazon stock right in Office documents.
Microsoft Press-release
Interesting things from AskJeeves
Just as Google shows interesting searchqueries and trends with it's Zeitgeist, AskJeeves will now do the same with JeevesIQ.
AOL stays with Google
AOL renewed its contract with Google. Details about the contract were not made public.
This contract goes against the trend for large portals to develop their own search technologies. Google's large popularity was one of the reasons why AOL decided to renew their partnership. This means that the AOL-sites will keep showing Google results in the USA, Great Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Basil, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, Australia as well as in Canada.
MSN without Looksmart
Searchenginewatch is reporting that MSN ended their partnership with Looksmart. MSN made up about 65% of Looksmarts profits.
This should be another step by MSN on the way of getting ready to set up their own searchengine.
Update (3:25pm): heise.de also has an article.
Google resultscounter defect?
Googlewhack is reporting that the number of shown results varies majorly from the number of found pages. While a search for “cleaner girl” is supposed to have found more than 200.000 pages, only one result is being shown.
Update (10.08.2003) Seth Finkelstein has written up an interesting article on this subject.
SiteFinder offline
According to heise.de, Verisign has taken down the controversial SiteFinder. Verisign redirected any access to non registered .com and .net domains to their SiteFinder.
It seems that an ultimatum from the ICANN was the source of this takedown, which gave Verisign until 6pm pacific to shut down SiteFinder.
Verisign is looking into which options they still have to reactivate SiteFinder. The alexa.com statistic shows that Verisign will lose massive amounts of visitors through their discontinuation of SiteFinder. 
ODP-data spam
In a spam-mail, PPCExperience.com is trying to sell a list with all pages in Googles' Directory.
Since the Google-Directory is using ODP-data, you can download these, free of charge, at this URL: http://rdf.dmoz.org/
German Unity Day Google-Logo
Today, Google changed its logo for Germanys Day of Unity by switching out the second “o” with a map of Germany. 
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