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Yahoo! 3rd-Qtr Profit More Than Doubles
A resurgent online advertising market is helping Yahoo! Inc. revisit the earnings heights the Internet icon reached during the dot-com boom.
Google Rolls Out Keyword Conversion Tool
Google on Thursday introduced a new tool to allow its 150,000 keyword advertisers to track conversions from the clicks they receive on their Google ads. [Internet News]
Google bug blocks thousands of sites
It's been called a "Google-NACK": you enter a particular search term and Google tells you that there are thousands of matching results, but fails to return many, or any results. [TheRegister]
Google keeps its hardware cheap, simple
"Cheap and fast" hardware is the way to go, according to Craig Nevill-Manning, a senior research scientist with Google Inc. [ComputerWorld]
Are search engines confusing surfers?
The Federal Trade Commission remains concerned that consumers may not be able to tell when search results are advertiser-sponsored, thanks to sometimes-unclear disclosure on the part of search companies. [ZDnet]
Blog noise achieves Google KO
The humble weblog has finally achieved dominance over Google, the world's most-used search engine. [TheRegister]
VeriSign's Site Finder is undead
VeriSign is to relaunch Site Finder, its highly controversial domain typo redirection service.
Yahoo Launches Customized Shopping Search Tools
Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday unveiled a feature to make online comparison shopping easier by sorting computers and other gadgets according to a consumer's budget and other preferences, including technical specifications. [Reuters]
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FindWhat's expected earnings soar
Solid growth in the performance-based search market have encouraged FindWhat to bump up its earnings expectations, but uncertainty remains over its deal with Espotting.
