Search engine marketing industry news stories gathered constantly by the bigmouthmedia team.
Jury Fails to Determine Validity of Yahoo! Ad Tech Patent
The patent dispute over bid-for-placement technology between Yahoo! Search Marketing and FindWhat.com resulted in a mistrial late Wednesday. Parts of the case could still be decided by a judge next month. [ClickZ]
SEM Buyer's Guide for 2005 published
E-consultancy have published their well respected independent SEM Buyer's Guide for 2005.
Yahoo's 'Voice Over IM' Targets Skype
Looking to cash in on the growing buzz around PC-to-PC voice over IP services, Yahoo on Wednesday added voice calling capabilities to a new beta of its instant messaging client. [eWeek]
Video search engines come of age
New video search capabilities, created for broadband Internet users by firms from Google to Lycos. [Washington Times]
Gates gets to grips with info overload
Gates also devoted a fair amount of time to the issue of search technology, an area in which the company has invested heavily to try and catch up to rivals such as Google and Yahoo!. He said there is still plenty of room for improvement. [Silicon]
Ask Jeeves buys Excite Europe operator
Web search engine Ask Jeeves has purchased Excite Italia BV, the operator of Excite Europe, from Tiscali SpA. [Star Telegram]
Google launches AdSense beta version for RSS feeds
The program, an extension of Google's AdSense network, was launched as a beta program to all Web publishers for use within RSS feeds. [Earthtimes]
Google lets users design own home page
Google made the boldest change yet to its famously austere home page Thursday, allowing users to turn it into a customized palette of news, weather conditions, movie showtimes, e-mail messages and more. [The Mercury News]
Dogpile lets users compare search engine results
Metasearch engine Dogpile.com has redesigned its site, which now includes a feature that allows users to compare results across engines. [Netimperative]
Lycos Germany bins IP address data
Lycos DSL in Germany says it will no longer store dynamic IP addresses of its customers, now that a specialist on data privacy laws from Frankfurt University has threatened to sue the company. [The Register]
