2003

The Kontakter is reporting that Microsoft is planning to get into the profitable market of paid search-results themselves....

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Heise.de is reporting that Google might be forced to report to the FTC due to a American law. Seeing how this would be expensive...

According to heise.de, the Scout24-group was taken over by T-Online today for 180 Million EUR in cash. Gesundheitsscout24...

Looksmart has announced that they will be closing down their London office on 01.15.2004. Their reasoning is that after they...

Google has updated both PR and Backlinks once again. It seems that they are nearly through with the update as the PageRank...

The ODP-Blog is reporting that the ODP now has more than 4 million pages. Congratulations.

AOL has announced that with the new version of their AOL-software, they will delete spyware and similar miscreants. They...

At searchguild.com/googleblog/ you can find a parody to a fictitious blog by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

At http://shop.suche.web.de/, you can find a product-searchengine powered by Web.de. The results will show the product name,...

Is Googles new spam-filter working by Bayens, as many other spam-mailfilters already are? More on it here.

Fortune.com has an interesting article on Google by Fred Vogelstein.

heise.de is reporting that a code of conduct for searchengines is in the making, which is to provide for a strict division...

According to a study by Nielsen//Netratings, EBay had more than 22 Million European visitors from Great Britain, France,...

news.com is reporting that Overture is blocking all ads for medicine. This is to prevent the illegal sale of medicine.

You can use Singingfish to search the internet for audio- and video-files as well as pictures. AOL still wants to integrate...

Google put the new backlink and PageRank values on a datacenter in VA.

On the heels of Google, MSN is planning a news-overview. It seems the MSN-Newsbot is planned for England, Italy, France and...

According to News.com, tools are being developed which are supposed to filter out text-ads, similar to bannerblockers (Webwasher...

heise.de is reporting that Lycos Europe plans to massively cut costs by concentrating on their core-business. This also means...

On ecin.de there is an interesting article in 3 parts by Torsten Schwarz on the subject of E-Mail-marketing.

Besides the already well-known Google Toolbar, Googlelabs introduced the Google Deskbar yesterday. With it, you get a search-field...

The FTC has obtained an interim order against a US firm that spammed the Windows-news-service with ads for their ad-blocker,...

Beginning last Tuesday, AskJeeves has now integrated the price-comparison-service of pricegrabber.com.

The ODP forum has a posting on which mistakes to make if you wish to get banned from ODP.

An interesting article on auctionbytes.com is reporting that EBay seems to offer their top20 affiliates in the USA the possibility...

The New York Times is reporting that there are talks between Microsoft and Google about a possible acquisition of Google...

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Lycos Europe managed to lower their losses in the first 9 month to 28,6 million Euros (previous year: 55,4 million Euros)....

A simple Email with your searchquery to google@capeclear.com is enough to get the results back in another Email. Since they...

The market researchers at Pew Internet & American Life Project did a study on the impact of spam on the regular usage...

At the moment, you can marvel at an extremely brazen case of a sham-pagerank on ebay.de. The site for sale did not get the...

heise.de is reporting that EBay is having problems with the switch from daylight-savings- to standard-time. Due to this,...

Saturday night, the backlinks as well as the PageRank will get evaluated anew. It seems that the results are already shown...

The Wall Street Journal writes that Google is planning on holding their IPO next year. Estimates on Google’s worth...

According to heise.de, the district government in Dusseldorf wants searchengines to become repsonsible for the content that...

A French court decided that Google searchqueries that are also brandnames may not point to competitors’ links, that...

VeriSign wants to sell Network Solutions Business to a Private Equity company.

Searchenginewatch.com got the chance to exchange some words with Sergey Brin at the Search Engine Strategies conference in...

OJR has an interesting interview with Krishna Bharat, the developer of Google-News.

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James Baughn is introducing a new searchengine-concept on humorix.org. Here, sites that pay money to other searchengines...

Beginning in November, Yahoo! is planning on including ticket-data from Eventim into their music-portal Launch.

Karstadt.de is offering a price-comparison service for 15 European low-cost-carriers.

The FTD has an article on how the Musicindustry will make five times the profits with ringtones this year, than it does with...

heise.de is reporting that more than 200 attendees have come together to discuss what can be done against email-spam.

It seems that the QHosts-worm was not the only one to take advantage of the Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerability. The...

Searchenginewatch has an interesting article on the origin of the names of all the important searchengines.

Yahoo! has more than doubled their profits in the third quarter, thanks to a strong growth of the advertisement devision....

Amazon and Microsoft announced that from now on, they will integrate the Amazon Webservices into Microsoft Office. Amazon’s...

Just as Google shows interesting searchqueries and trends with it’s Zeitgeist, AskJeeves will now do the same with...

AOL renewed its contract with Google. Details about the contract were not made public. This contract goes against the trend...

Searchenginewatch is reporting that MSN ended their partnership with Looksmart. MSN made up about 65% of Looksmarts profits....

According to heise.de, Verisign has taken down the controversial SiteFinder. Verisign redirected any access to non registered...

In a spam-mail, PPCExperience.com is trying to sell a list with all pages in Googles’ Directory. Since the Google-Directory...

Suchmaschine.de is trying to install a dialer with every query. Seems as though someone is trying to make some money with...

Google has bought Kaltix Corp. Both parties are not divulging any financial insights into the deal. Kaltix develops personalized...

You can get the Google-Toolbar for Mozilla at http://googlebar.mozdev.org/about.html. This free toolbar is unable to show...

TweakXP is reporting that a program has modified the hosts-file for many internet users, so that queries to the important...

After setting up their Google-Spain offices, Google now also has a News– as well as an Adwords-team there.

The Wirtschaftswoche is reporting, that Google is planning on not only setting up selling agencies but also research-offices...

The Wall Street Journal has an article on how Amazon is developing their own searchtechnology. This new division, which goes...

Google is going to open an office in Spain, according to an article on finanzen.net. This will be the fifth European branch...

Version 2 of the Google Toolbar, which has been available in English for a while already, is now available in its German...

Yahoo! has relaunched their shopping-platform. For the categories Electronics, Baby-products as well as CD’s, they...

In the current c’t on page 88, Heise is reporting on the increasing Googlespam. In this article, heise states that...

www-kr seems to be a new Google-datacenter. It can be found in Dublin, Ireland and has the IP 66.102.11.100.