Search engine marketing industry news stories gathered constantly by the bigmouthmedia team.
100.com to Rival Traditional Search Engines
Launched as a new search engine to compete with Yahoo!, Google and others. Designed primarily as a meta search engine, 100.com's focus will be to deliver the 100 most relevant results for each search term. [eMediaWire]
Google stock auction: IPO revolution or disaster?
Google Inc.'s initial public offering has a lot of people salivating for a piece of the action - an appetite that the Internet search engine leader hopes to satisfy by inviting the masses to the bidding table [CNN]
Mamma.com generates Q1 profit
Mamma.com Inc., an Internet search engine company, made a $1.4-million US profit in the first quarter, reversing a year-ago loss at the Montreal-based company. [Canada.com]
Goofy Yahoo! mantras have odd resonance
Throughout Yahoo!'s daylong pep rally for analysts, top Yahoo! execs topped off individual presentations with the progressively grating exclamation, "The best is yet to come!" [The Street]
Adware company loses its links
An association with the practice of 'cloaking' has cost WhenU its links from major search engines Google and Yahoo. [ZDNet]
Yahoo to boost search
Yahoo executives laid out plans to rev up their Internet search engine Thursday in an attempt to chip away at Google's lead in an increasingly lucrative business. [SFGate]
Microsoft focuses on research
Google currently dominates Internet search, something analysts say could pose problems for Microsoft -- and not only because Google takes away advertising dollars. [Wired]
Google's Ethics Committee revealed
At Google, the gatekeeper to a trove of digital information, as everywhere else, it's humans not machines who make value decisions. [The Register]
Dutch man pleads guilty to Google fraud
A Dutch man pleaded guilty to swindling wealthy New Yorkers by promising an inside track to stock in Google and blazing through $350,000 of their money in a three-month spree of opulent hotels, pricey restaurants and Atlantic City gambling. [Boston]
Lycos beats Google to be first with 1Gb email launch
Lycos Europe is the first major player to launch a 1Gb service to consumers beating rivals Yahoo! and Google to the punch. [Revolution Magazine]
