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Yahoo vs. Google : v7ndotcom elursrebmem
In a show of indexing speed by the two major search engines, Yahoo search has the jump on Google for the indexing of sites which have covered or entered in the v7ndotcom elursrebmem SEO competition [Search Engine Journal]

Putting The Screws To Google
How Old Media could take back its share of search's ad bounty. [Business Week online]

Microsoft Eyes Summer Launch of MSN AdCenter
Setting the stage for a bruising battle for paid search supremacy with Google and others, a new MSN adCenter system will offer a targeted way to buy pay-per-click search advertising. [E-commerce News]

Internet users quick to judge
Internet users can take just one-twentieth of a second to decide whether they like the look of a website, researchers say. [ABC News online]

Chirac to compete with Google
French president Jacques Chirac has whole-heartedly lent his support to a Franco-German attempt to create a European multimedia search engine on the Internet, aimed at competing with US Internet giants such as Google. [EU Observer]

Microsoft Eyes E-advertising Market
Microsoft ups the ante against Google and Yahoo, opening an advertising laboratory in Beijing to develop technologies for its upcoming MSN AdCenter which will offer paid search, analytical tools and other services for advertisers. [TechTree.com]

Google buys into digital radio ads
Search giant Google has paid $106m for dMarc, which provides media buying technology for digital radio. Google says it will integrate dMarc's digital advertising platform into its AdWords program. [The Register]

Google defies US over search data
The internet search engine Google is resisting efforts by the US Department of Justice to force it to hand over data about what people are looking for. [BBC]

Google Boosts Analytics
GOOGLE IS BEEFING UP ITS analytics service with a paid offering from analytics and design firm Zaaz, the companies are expected to announce today. [MediaPost]

Google cache not a breach of copyright
A US district court has ruled that Google's cache feature, which allows users to access snapshots of web pages taken when they were viewed by Google robots, does not breach copyright in those web pages. [El Reg]