Search engine marketing industry news stories gathered constantly by the bigmouthmedia team.
Yahoo! buys! bloated! widgets!
Google and Yahoo! have been competing to make quality software available for download for little or no cost. And just when you thought Yahoo! was showing signs that it knew what it was doing, comes some news to suggest otherwise. [The Register]
Google adds RSS feeds to homepage
Google has updated its project Fusion to allow users to add any RSS feeds and bookmarks to the front page of the search engine. [VNUnet]
AOL moves into mobile search
AOL has begun testing a new mobile search service that enables users to search the Web, compare product prices and access local listings from their mobiles. [Netimperative]
Microsoft gags Google newbie
Microsoft has escalated its legal spat with Google by obtaining a restraining order on a former employee who jumped ship to Google, preventing him from carrying out his duties.
Yahoo! Firefox toolbar goes live
Internet giant Yahoo! has followed search engine rival Google and launched a new version of its toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox web browser in the UK and Ireland, following a beta test. [Netimperative]
Google seeks to patent RSS ads
A newly uncovered Google patent attempts to patent adverts on any 'syndicated content' - that includes RSS [The Register]
Ask Jeeves divorces Google for Paid Search
Search engine Ask Jeeves is today launching an advertising network in an attempt to rival search engine competitors Google, Yahoo! and MSN
Microsoft employee bags worlds worst writing award
Not content with dominating every other market, a Microsoft analyst has helped the MS empire scoop another accolade - official home of the Worlds Worst Literature. [Reuters]
Baidu floats
The part-Google-owned Chinese language search engine, Baidu floated on the US stock market today [Silicon]
Canada and Denmark go to war - on Google
Canada and Denmark squabble over sovereignty of an obscure arctic island ... using Google Adwords
