Industry News

MSN looks to the future
Kim Peterson of the Seattle Times talks to leading lights of MSN as they look to the future "beyond Google". It looks like it's going to be a long fight...

Google accused of political 'bias'
In the tricky world of US politics, Google has found it a tricky tightrope to walk to remain impartial.[MarketingVox]

EU to throw the book(s) at
Google
Google Print has an unlikely new rival - the EU has announced its own digital library to take on the American search giant [BBC]

Customers gripe at Google
Google customer service takes a bashing from disgruntled advertisers [MarketingVox]

It's a little 'Wondir'
Introducing Wondir - the worlds first P2P search engine? [Forbes]

Bill Gates 'on a mission'
... and Google is his target. Fred Vogelstein looks
at how the Google upstarts got mild mannered Mr Gates so riled. Is it because Google own the game? [Fortune]

Google cuts Urchin down to size
In a move that will put the cat amongst the pidgeons of web analytics, Google have more than halved the price of its new Urchin Traffic tool [BCOnline]

'Bermuda Triangle' captures Google users
Attendees of Search Engine Strategies Toronto hear how eye tracking studies on Google results show how a 'golden triangle' on the screen captures users attentions.[JupiterMedia]

New Google Web Accelerator
The Google alchemists are working overtime as yesterday Google released an application into Google Labs that is designed to speed up web surfing primarily for broadband users. [BetaNews]

Yahoo video search now widely available
Search giant Yahoo! has said its video search service is now widely available to the public. Yahoo Video Search rolled out as a test in December. [Reuters]