Industry News

Yahoo readies ads for RSS
Yahoo Inc. wants to join the advertising market for XML syndication feeds. [eWeek]

Google adds SMS search
Search engine Google is currently testing a service in the US that lets you send in an SMS mobile/cellular phone message and get search results in return.(Pandia.com)

Yell.com launches mobile search service
Yell has launched its business information services on mobile, providing O2, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone users with wireless access to Yell.com's database of 2m shops and services, and 100,000 advertisers. [Revolution UK]

Yahoo Performs As Expected
Search engine Yahoo delivered results and guidance after the close on Tuesday that were pretty much as expected. [Internetnews.com]

Search engine finds India
Leading Internet search engine Google Inc. said it was planning a big expansion of its India operations which are run from the two southern cities of Hyderabad and Bangalore [Yahoo! News]

New MSN search engine ready for winter?
Microsoft is working hard to get its new search engine ready, possibly as early as this winter. The new MSN search engine will replace Yahoo's search technology as the engine of the MSN portal. [Pandia.com]

China search giant sees sales quadrupling
Baidu.com, China's largest Web search engine, says its revenues will more than double in 2004 and could double again next year as more companies pay to feature in search results. [Reuters]

Public ownership of Telstra hanging in the balance
Public ownership of Telstra is hanging on the outcome of Queensland Senate votes as the Australian Democrats look set to lose a seat to the Nationals. [ZDNet AU]

A scoop: Google's desktop search review!
There have been rumours of Google doing a desktop search for a while now. On the first hint that the official launch would be today, bigmouthmedia chased it up.

Paypal battles to restore service
Online auction house eBay's payment system, Paypal, is still suffering from service failures that started six days ago, after a software upgrade. [BBC]