Industry News

Controversy and heads called to roll offer at Microsoft's anonymous microblog
Microsoft's decision to delay Vista again causes anger from employees to spill over into the anonymous 'Mini Microsoft' blog.
[MiniMicrosoft]

New Yahoo! desktop superior to Google and MSN?
Yahoo's offering incites debate as the Big Three in search are discussed, dissected, and, ultimately, dissed.
[WebProWorld]

Google spend $1billion on 5 percent equity in AOL
Acquisition fever hits the search engine market leader once again, but this time Google is fishing for much bigger fish to fry.
[Yahoo! Finance]

Microsoft macros for search engine 'time-optimisation'
MSN offers macros to users to customise their search results, although not a great leap forwards for online search, it's always nice to get toys from the Search Engines.
[MSN Blog]

Google Local Business Ads coming onstream
More details emerge regarding the Google Business Ads programme and bigmouthmedia investigates.

Is Ask ready to turn the Big Three in search into the Big Four?
Ask's new, simpler interface gets the thumbs up. And bigmouthmedia puts the search engine through its paces.

Last minute changes to Microsoft IE ActiveX rollout
The clock is ticking to get ActiveX based sites in line for the next Internet Explorer security update.

A brief history of April Fools online
Google is notorious for it, Apple launched on it: but exactly how is April Fool's day celebrated on the web?

Yahoo! updates its index
Search results fluctuate as Yahoo! follows Google's lead with an update to its index.

Google sells 2.07billion dollars worth of stock
Google offloads 5.3 million shares to generate even more cash for its reserves. Web start-ups must wonder if this is being set aside for acquisitions.