Industry News

Google bulks up Mini search appliance
Google has doubled the capacity and lowered the price of its lowest-end search appliance, the Google Mini. [CNET News]

192.com targets Yell and Google
Directory enquiries site 192.com has been relaunched as a people and business search engine to rival both Yell and Google. [WebUser]

Google intros Q&A service
Google has begun delivering factual answers for some queries at the top of its results. The search engine giant provides user shortcuts for data such as the population of a country. [PC World]

Search engines are watching ... you!
Zoominfo opens up a whole new area of search - people

Chinese search engine market growth continues
People's Daily reports that the Chinese search engine market to reach $278 mln in 2005.

Yahoo! launches toolbar for Firefox
Yahoo! has launched a toolbar for Mozilla Firefox, the popular open source web browser. The Yahoo! Toolbar UK & Ireland for Mozilla Firefox is currently available as a beta-test. [Netimperative]

Google executives to get 1 dollar in 2005
The search engine giant's top three executives all requested that their salaries be reduced to 1 dollar last year, and want this to carry on through 2005. [ZDNet UK]

Ask Jeeves Introduces New Features
Search engine Ask Jeeves upgrades MyJeeves.

Warning! Do not put Google up your nose!
OK, this isn't really a news story - but we love it so much we thought we'd share it. Google's concern for those tricky nasal related house-hold accidents is almost touching!

Google unveils mobile local search
Internet search engine Google late on Monday announced a test service for finding local restaurants, stores and other businesses via Web-enabled mobile phones and other mobile devices. [Reuters UK]