Industry News

Netscape Revamps Search Engine
Most analysts believe the browser war has been won by AOL rival Microsoft Corp.

AltaVista Launches Trusted Feed Program
AltaVista has added its Trusted Feed program to its paid inclusion line-up.
The service enables any business with a large web site to submit 500 or more URLs via an XML (Extensible Markup Language) feed directly to AltaVista's index.

Google top Latin American Search Property
"Latin America is one of the fastest growing Internet communities in the world," said Larry Page, co-founder and president of Products, Google Inc.

Top sites limited by lack of languages
Over 95 percent of leading Internet companies are unable to correspond in any language but English, according to research

UK internet user figures soar
"This is the most comprehensive information available on internet use in the UK," said Mari Kim Coleman, UK Managing Director of MMXI Europe.

Google working on paid-crawl service
Evidence points toward a new service where companies will pay to have their sites 'deep-crawled' by Google's search engine

BMM to speak at E-Business Week in June
Bigmouthmedia has been selected to profile its Brand Intelligence service at Scottish Enterprise's E-Business Week in June.

Source: Scottish Enterprise

AOL to drop Netscape Online and Compuserve Services
AOL is dumping its Netscape Online and CompuServe 2000 services to give more clout to its new broadband offering due out next month.

BTLooksmart drops Inktomi in favour of Google
BTLooksmart changes its fall-through results provider from Inktomi to Google.