Search engine marketing industry news stories gathered constantly by the bigmouthmedia team.
Blogs tell human cost of Katrina
Hundreds of survival stories are filtering out over internet blogs from New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. [BBC News]
Microsoft-Google battle heats up
Microsoft's chief executive vowed to "kill Google" in an expletive-laden tirade against the firm, according to US court documents filed by search engine Google. [BBC News]
Google trials Chinese business search site
Google has launched a beta version of a service that allows Chinese Web surfers to search for businesses in their local area, according to reports. [ZDNet]
Yahoo 'helped jail China writer'
Internet giant Yahoo has been accused of supplying information to China which led to the jailing of a journalist for "divulging state secrets". [BBC]
Google Aids Hurricane Katrina Search
Search engine Google has joined the ranks of aid workers, volunteers and bloggers in an attempt to track down those still missing after the Hurricane Katrina disaster
Google finally unveils blog search
Internet search engine Google has unveiled a website that lets people search web journals or blogs. [BBC News]
AOL launches podcast search
AOL has secured a deal with search engine technology firm Podscope to add a podcast search capability to the AOL search engine. [Netimperative]
Google about to launch WiFi security service
Exclusive: Google are quietly developing a new service to offer better privacy for WiFi users.
Ask Jeeves decides to axe Jeeves
Big news as search engine Ask Jeeves is removing the iconic Jeeves character from the Ask site. Ask cited "user confusion" over what the character represents as the search engine evolves. [BBC News]
EC to rival Google with massive digital library
The European Commission has proposed a far-reaching effort to preserve our 'collective memory' by putting Europe's heritage online, in an attempt to challenge search engine giant Google [ZDNet UK]
