Search engine marketing industry news stories gathered constantly by the bigmouthmedia team.
BT and LookSmart to go their separate ways
LookSmart and BT Group (formerly British Telecommunications, plc) have agreed to close their joint venture, BT LookSmart, but UK LookSmart will go on
Law suit to stop defamation and share price manipulation
An Las Vegas casino has sued to stop a Yahoo subscriber from making defamatory statements about the casino giant, allegedly to manipulate its stock price (From Poker News)
Online shopping up 20%
Yahoo! finance reports on the latest MMXi figures
Yahoo! back in court over Nazi auction issues
Yahoo! Inc. asked an appeals court to uphold a lower court's ruling that said the second-biggest Internet auction service doesn't have to obey a French court order to remove Nazi symbols from its Web site. (from Detroit News)
Klez worm is most prolific virus of the year
Sophos has identified over 7,000 viruses in the past year
Retailers lose out to online fraudsters
Gartner research reports that online retailers in the US will lose nearly USD500 million during the holiday shopping season due to fraud and suspect transactions (From NUA)
Global online population to hit 665 Million by the year end
eTForecasts predicts a sharp rise in the number of Internet users in 2002
Chinese web sensorship
The saga continues, CNN reports that 10% of sites are blocked
Big 4 search properties bringing 90% of online sales traffic
Web Side Story reports that Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL Account For More Than 90 Percent of Search Referrals to Shopping Web Sites
Half of UK businesses ordering online
UK business is making good progress in the e-business arena according to a new report published today by DTI-led UK Online for Business.
