Yahoo Number 1 in Japan
Yahoo!has retained its dominant position as Japan’s number one web property with more than 41 million visitors for the month of August, this is according to new research by comScore.
Google came in second position with its combined sites attarcting just over 30 million unique visitors. Microsoft came in third at just over 29 million unique visitors for the month of August.
ComScore-Japan MD Maru […]
Google Launches Bookmark Sharing - Shared Stuff
Google has launched “Shared Stuff”, a bookmark sharing service.
Much like Yahoo’s del.icio.us, Shared Stuff allows people to share their bookmark links with friends and family.
To share sites with others, users can drag a “share” button onto their computer browser toolbar and proceed to share sites with other computer users.
As well as posting favourite links on the Shared Stuff page, the new […]
Google to Scrap BPF
Google has decided to end its practice to provide search advertising companies with best practice funding payments worth as much as £50m a year.
Google’s programme, dubbed Best Practice Funding (BPF), will sieze to exist by the end of 2008 giving advertisers over a year to adjust to the blow of loss of lucrative income.
The BPF programme […]
Google Gadget Ads Launched
Google launched a service that gives advertisers the ability to measure audience’s response to ads.
The new service allows advertisers to analyse an ad’s performance “by selecting from dozens of predefined interactions and [can] optimise based on those results”. Advertisers would be able to obtain crucial information such as whether an ad was viewed, how often it was watched (in the case of […]
Baidu Outperforms Google in China
Baidu, the Chinese search engine has increased its market share in China against Google which has slipped back, this is according to a report by China IntelliConsulting Corporation (CIC).
The CIC report confirms that Baidu, over the last 12 months, has increased its market share in China’s three major cities, Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.
According to the research conducted by CIC, […]
Yahoo to Acquire Zimbra
Yahoo! announced that it will acquire email and collaboration software provider Zimbra in a deal worth around $350 million.
Zimbra produces a range of products including email, calendar and AJAX-based web collaboration applications.
Yahoo! said the purchase will allow it to benefit from Zimbra’s ISP partnerships and bolster its service offering to universities and small businesses by allowing them to use their domain to host […]
Google Sponsored Listings Video Ads
Google announced the possible integration of video and image ads in its sponsored search results.
Google product manager Nicholas Fox said that Google is seeking to do the best job it can at conveying information to its users.
He added, in some cases this may be achieved through a text ad, while in others it may be an image, a video or something […]
Facebook Profiles Become Searchable
Facebook announced that it will now allow search engines such as Google and Yahoo to index the profiles of its millions of members.
This controversial news will come as a disappointment to many Facebook users who value their privacy, however Facebook has offered a choice those concerned to disallow search engines from indexing their profiles.
Facebook’s decision to […]
Microsoft to Offer Free Internet-Based Software
Microsoft announced that it will offer free software that will connect its Windows operating system to software delivered over the internet.
This is a major shoft for Microsoft which traditionally sold commercial packaged software.
This unprecendented move by Microsoft is in direct response to Google’s offering its own brand of software applications over the internet.
Here is what Kenneth Wasch, president […]
YouTube to pay Royalities to Artists
YoutTube reached a licensing agreement with the MCPS-PRS Alliance, a body responsible for the collection of royalties for musical artists in the UK.
The MCPS-PRS Alliance represents 50,000 musical performers, composers and publishers.
The agreement between Google-owned YouTube and the alliance will see millions of musical pieces licensed to YouTube in the UK.
MCPS-PRS Alliance’s managing director Andrew Shaw said that […]