Search engine marketing industry news stories gathered constantly by the bigmouthmedia team.
Direct Hit swallowed up by Teoma
Search engine Direct Hit has been swallowed up by relative newcomer Teoma. This shift changes Ask Jeeve's fall-through results, which are now provided by Teoma.
Ask Jeeves acquired Teoma back in September 2001
Google release details of spelling errors
The need for misspellings in your Meta tags was reinforced recently when Google released details of the hundreds of spelling errors they receive for just one search term 'Britney Spears'
BBCi Launches Search Engine
The BBC has launched a family-friendly web search facility, based on the popular Google search engine.
Internet Population in Europe
144.4 million in 2001 will rise to 221 million by 2004.
Net lifeline for victims of violence
Public internet kiosks are providing a lifeline to victims of domestic violence in the UK.
SBC and Yahoo! Look to the Future
Finding they like the combination of the names, and attracted by the revenue potential, SBC and Yahoo! have drawn up a contract expansion which includes business broadband services.
source: internetnews.com
SAS to Help Microsoft
The SAS Institute, specialists in data mining technology, are to help Microsoft on a project which will allow web users to more easily search databases.
source: news.com.com
HP makes Overture
Hewlett-Packard and Overture have signed a deal allowing some of HP's notebooks and PCs access to Overture Services. A keybutton on the HP Pavillion hardware will become the "Search the Internet" default link.
source: news.com.com
Yahoo! Keep Smiling
In spite of posting its sixth quarterly loss, Yahoo! are still optimistic.
source: internetnews.com
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