Search engine marketing industry news stories gathered constantly by the bigmouthmedia team.
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]
Yahoo Serious About Employee Blogging
After Yahoo officially embraced blogging with the launch of its Yahoo 360 consumer blogging feature, the company has gotten serious about employee blogging, as well. [Internet News]
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".
Cisco and Yahoo! combine to fight spam
Cisco and Yahoo have teamed up to create a system to identify the origin of emails. [VNUNet]
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]
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]
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]
