Industry News

Tiscali teams up with Google
Tiscali UK has launched a new search engine in partnership with Google, as the Internet service provider aims to drive up usage of its UK Web portal. [Netimperative]

Clever Seekport covers double-meaning searches
European search engine Seekport has integrated a new feature into its UK service that identifies homographs- words with the exact same spelling but two different meanings. [Netimperative]

Yahoo! in the dock over nude pictures allegation
Being the middle man is generally an easy role to play, but Yahoo! is now being sued as a woman alleges that the web giant failed to remove naked pictures of her that were posted by her former boyfriend. [The Times]

Google threatened by Yahoo's Mindset
Web giant Yahoo! has produced a tool that allows users to prioritise search engine results by source could help Yahoo! to take a larger slice of the search engine market from Google. [ZDNet UK]

A Google Sitemap Experiment
Google has opened the doors on a large spidering experiment. In the search engine's own words the sitemap beta, "will either fail miserably, or succeed beyond our wildest dreams".

eSpotting and FindWhat re-brand as Miva
The Board of Directors of FindWhat.com, Inc. announced the Company will change its name to MIVA, Inc., as it fully integrates and creates a single brand around the businesses it has brought together over the last 18 months.

Google clicks with investors in tech stocks
To find a reason for Google's latest giddy rise on Wall Street, look no further than the embarrassment of investors who have so far missed the boat. [MSN]

Google's long memory stirs privacy concerns
When Google Inc.'s 19 million daily users look up a long-lost classmate, send e-mail or bounce around the Web more quickly with its new Web Accelerator, records of that activity don't go away. [Reuters]

AOL to offer new Internet portal
Time Warner's America Online unit plans to introduce a free Internet portal with news, sports and business, much as Yahoo does. [Washington Times]

Cisco and Yahoo! combine to fight spam
Cisco and Yahoo have teamed up to create a system to identify the origin of emails. [VNUNet]