Industry News

Scientology's Wrath Rates Enemy
The result of the Church of Scientology's dispute with Google over links to a website critical of the church has simply encouraged more visitors to that site.

Highs and Lows for Overture
Overture (US) announces extended deal with Yahoo! but loses AOL Netscape

Melissa virus creator jailed
The creator of a computer virus which caused millions of dollars of damage by disrupting networks all over the world has been jailed for 20 months by a United States court

AOL drop Overture in favour of Google Adwords
AOL, the Time Warner owned company with 34 million members worldwide, have announced that they are dropping the pay per click links from Overture in favour of the Google pay per click text ads, and the Google search engine database

Grid helps science go sky-high
Astronomers could be among the first to reap the rewards of plans to turn the internet into a vast pool of computer processing power.

US to Outlaw Spam & Fake Domains
The US Senate Commerce Committee has put forward a bill which will attempt to curtail the proliferation of spam on the World Wide Web.

Top Ten Most Popular Site Referrals
Based on a survey by E-Soft of 923,862 sites during April, 2002.

Where Did All The Money Go?
Have you got a firm grip on your website investment?

Europe closes web tax loophole
Amercian online sales to the EU will be subject to nationally levied taxes.

BBCi Search Engine Causes Controversy
Rivals claim the Beeb is taking unfair advantage of their website which already claims one of biggest audiences on the internet.