Supreme Court Won't Rule On Yahoo Nazi Case
The United States Supreme Court gave a hardy "no thanks" to the chance of deciding whether Yahoo! had to honor a French court's ruling about the content of the company's U.S.-based website.Read More → ^ TOP
Clash Of The Net Titans: Google V. Everyone
The race for Internet supremacy is getting more intense by the day. Internet giants, especially Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, are fee-fie-foe-fumming and smelling blood everywhere as they retool their strategies for complete omnipresence. But they've also decided not to go it alone as they form supergiant alliances.Read More → ^ TOP
Google To Shut Down Orkut Bad Apples
Google agreed to the Brazilian government's request to shut down a list of Orkut communities reported to violate Brazilian laws regarding violence, human rights, and other criminal activities. Read More → ^ TOPYahoo Messaging Worm Installs Bogus Browser
Since this story was originally posted, it has been updated to correct the description of the Yahoo messaging worm’s effects. Read More → ^ TOPBotNet Commits Pay-Per-Click Fraud
The Clickbot.A Trojan installed on 34,000 vulnerable PCs has been exploiting pay-per-click advertising programs, and the amount of money stolen this way could make the legendary robberies of the past pale in comparison. Read More → ^ TOPGoogle Click Fraud Settlement Update
The $90 million agreement negotiated to end a lawsuit by Arkansas-based Lane's Gifts and Collectibles has progressed to court approval of the preliminary settlement.Read More → ^ TOP
Google faces criminal investigation in Brazil, report says
The Attorney General in Brazil is seeking a criminal investigation into allegations that child pornography is distributed on Google's Orkut social network site, according to a report from Bloomberg on Wednesday.Read More → ^ TOP
Symantec Sues Microsoft Over Veritas
Once upon a time, Microsoft licensed a version of Veritas Volume Manager and used it in Windows 2000; Symantec now owns Veritas and wants Microsoft to pay for continuing to use that technology.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Faces Lawsuit Over Search Suggestions
A Belgian company has refiled a lawsuit over search terms offered by Google’s toolbar that directs users to pirated software.The suit, originally filed in February, was refiled Wednesday by ServersCheck, a small company that makes network monitoring software, over Google’s "Suggest" feature, included in the latest version of its search toolbar for Web browsers. When a user types in keywords for a search, the toolbar shows a drop-down menu of guesses related to those words. Read More → ^ TOP
Web Search Sites Give New Ways To Find Results
Yahoo is implementing a new automated means of suggesting answers to search queries, and another site is giving users a visual snapshot of sites before they click. Read More → ^ TOPOnline search giant Yahoo revamps its popular web site
Internet search titan Yahoo unveiled new "front doors" to the world with the online debut of its revamped web portal, customized for the cultures of each of its markets based on the search patterns of its 188 million users. Read More → ^ TOPDOJ Cold To Google's IE7 Complaint
The Department of Justice didn't buy Google's complaint that Microsoft's 7th version of Internet Explorer violated antitrust measures by setting MSN Search as the default search engine, bundled with next year's release of Windows Vista. Having worldwide dominance in search probably didn't help Google's case. Read More → ^ TOPGoogle Notebook Goes Live
As promised at Google's Press Day event last week, its Notebook service from Google Labs has been turned on in beta for users to try. Firefox users will have an easy time of adding...Read More → ^ TOP
Bill Gates builds massive booze factory
Unimaginably rich nerd Bill Gates is to build a plant in Oregon to produce 35m gallons of liquor annually.The lucky folks of Boardman, on the Columbia river, will play host to Bill's boozy dream factory when it opens its doors toward the end of this year. Read More → ^ TOP
Dept. of Justice Asks Court to Extend Microsoft Antitrust Judgment
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) asked a U.S. judge on Friday to extend parts of an antitrust order for Microsoft for at least two years because of the company’s delays in supplying technical documentation to licensees of its communications protocols. Read More → ^ TOPAOL Germany for sale?
Time Warner is to sell its German subsidiary AOL Deutschland, according to financial news agency DPA. Read More → ^ TOPJustice Unworried About IE7 Search
Google had complained to US and European antitrust regulators about Microsoft including a search box with MSN Search as the default in Internet Explorer 7, but the Department of Justice had no problems with the feature. Read More → ^ TOPMicrosoft Targeting Google, Maybe
Frequent media stories that aim at pushing Microsoft and Google into an all-out battle royale don't really hit the mark according to Microsoft's CEO.Read More → ^ TOP
Google introduces new products for users
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. on Wednesday fired another salvo aimed at maintaining the lead in Internet search while making its software more accessible outside Web browsers in its ongoing duel with rivals Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news)The company is adding a new tool to make it easier to share information through its online search engine and enabling users to download mini-applications, or "widgets," designed to become fixtures on a computer screen. Read More → ^ TOP
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Target Cell Searches
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft all want to enable their search engines on cellular phones, which they hope will compel users to adopt their other services, such as downloading Google maps and directions and sending Yahoo e-mail and MSN instant messages, the Wall Street Journal reports. Read More → ^ TOPYahoo Publisher Network Suspending Accounts for Poor Traffic Quality
It is no surprise that contextual advertising networks want good quality traffic for their advertisers and periodically clean house of publishers generating poor quality traffic. Yahoo Publisher Network has addressed the issue of their recent suspensions of publisher accounts monetizing through MySpace.com and publicly making it known that poor traffic sources will not be tolerated. Read More → ^ TOPGoogle Threatens Wireless Market
A mixture of free wireless broadband connections and voice over Internet protocol applications will leave the mobile network market in the United States a smoldering unmourned wreck consigned to the scrapheap, but only in major cities. Read More → ^ TOPAmazon Switches To Microsoft Search Engine From Google
Amazon's A9 search engine breaks down searches into various categories, such as Web searches, book searches, and blog searches. It's a standalone search site, www.a9.com, as well as the search technology used on the www.amazon.com Web site. Read More → ^ TOPGates Says Microsoft Will Keep Google Honest
When it comes to search and Internet advertising, there is no doubt that Google has taken an early and significant lead. On Wednesday, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates promised that his company "would keep them honest" Although while speaking to a group of MSN's largest advertisers, gates admitted that Microsoft would rather not be coming from behind. Read More → ^ TOPMicrosoft Leaks Memo, Plots With Yahoo
Shadowy skullduggery, twilight tete-a-tetes, and disseminated disinformation may have all been part of rumored talks between Yahoo and Microsoft about their online rival, Google.Read More → ^ TOP
Full-up Google choking on web spam?
Webmasters have been seething at Google since it introduced its 'Big Daddy' update in January, the biggest revision to the way its search engine operates for years.Alarm usually accompanies changes to Google's algorithms, as the new rankings can cause websites to be demoted, or disappear entirely. But four months on from the introduction of "Big Daddy," it's clear that the problem is more serious than any previous revision - and it's getting worse. Read More → ^ TOP
Yahoo & Microsoft Have Talked Partnering, Merging
I was talking with Kevin Delaney of the Wall Street Journal on Monday about search things in general and mentioned the sense it makes for Microsoft and Yahoo to get together. Microsoft is behind with the core search technology. Yahoo's been struggling to upgrade its paid search service. Let's get these two kids together! And today in the Wall Street Journal, it turns out that there's apparently a faction at Microsoft that wants to do just that.Read More → ^ TOP
Amazon Drops Google, Taps Microsoft for Search
On Monday, mega Web retailer Amazon.com announced that it has dropped Google as the provider of search results on its webpage and selected an engine powered by Microsoft as the replacement, The Washington Post reports. Read More → ^ TOPMicrosoft Settles Antitrust Suit in Calif.
Microsoft Tuesday reached a tentative US$70 million deal to settle a California class-action antitrust lawsuit, according to a statement by the law firm representing the plaintiffs in the suit.Read More → ^ TOP
Microsoft's Controversial Good Deed
Starting in July, Microsoft will be sending African teaching organizations a lower priced version of the Windows OS that is supposed to work on the cheaper machines it's supplying. Read More → ^ TOPGoogle Complains To Feds About IE7
Google has given its new lobbyists in Washington DC something to do, as the company expressed concern to both the Justice Department and the European Commission about Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 having MSN Search as its default search engine.Read More → ^ TOP
