Industry News

Google Celebrates St David's day
Daffodils in the logo - Google goes Welsh for St Davids day (1st March).

The search is on for a better Internet search engine
As Google plans to go public, users are wondering whether its phenomenal success will continue or whether a new competitor is about to appear. [Taipei Times]

Google friends newsletter - March 2004
With the year well underway, we have much to share with you in the way of Google news.

Yahoo delves deeper into Web
Yahoo on Tuesday will begin a systematic effort to draw more content into its searchable database of Web documents, in its latest bid to win Web surfers from search rival Google. [ZDnet]

Ask Jeeves to buy Interactive Search
Ask Jeeves Inc. on Thursday said it would buy Interactive Search Holdings Inc. for about $343 million to bolster its presence in the fast-growing Internet search-engine market. [Reuters]

Teething problems at Yahoo?
'I didn't do it!' - somebody broke Yahoo! this morning ...

3721's new search engine strategy in China
3721 told Sohu IT that it would cooperate with Yahoo in promoting its own search engine service, with the latter promising to provide core technology details where necessary. [iResearch]

Warning: Blogs can be infectious
The most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with the most original ideas, say researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs. [Wired]

Yahoo's commercial Web site fee raises howls
Yahoo this week rolled out a plan to keep its search engine up to date by charging commercial Web sites a fee to index them more frequently. [Newsday]

Trade mark not abused by meta tag and search ads, says UK court
Three English Appeal Court judges ruled last week that recruitment site totaljobs.com had not infringed a trade mark that had been used as a meta tag in the source code of totaljobs' web site and in paid adverts on search engines. [Out-Law.com]