Industry News

Post World Cup surge expected
Its all over, but travel companies are gearing up to reap the rewards of a boost in sales post World Cup.

Intuitive search offered by the new Draze search engine
An Intuitive method of search launches as Draze.com's new comparison search engine goes live. BY comparing the major search engines Draze.com offers users the ability to see the most significant results with a single click.

Firefox: the search engine's favourite
Firefox 2.0 incorporates Yahoo! Live Search so you can find what you want faster.

Google Video comes to Europe
Google has now launched Google Video UK, in addition to the provision of Google Video for six other European countries.

Microsoft warns Google away from Enterprise Search
Words of warning were sternly issued yesterday by Microsoft's chief operating officer, Kevin Turner.
The message was - keep clear of enterprise search!

Sexing up of investment banking – an issue of online brand protection
Increasing threats to brand identity caused by cybersquatters are causing problems for big name brands such as investment bank Goldman Sachs

US Congress acts in favour of freedom of speech campaign
The United States Congress have made moves to ban major search engines like Yahoo and Google from censoring their web results and divulging personal details of their users with a new bill. We take a look at the implications for human rights online.

NOODP - Google Sitemaps, Googlebot and Search Snippets
THE NOODP TAG: A new metatag for Googlebot gives more control to webmasters

Click fraud on the increase.
The quarterly report from consultants Click Forensics shows click fraud is on the increase, which could lead to a damaging financial impact on major online advertisers.

Google tests more accessible web search for the blind
Google has been working on a high profile project to provide accessible search results for the visually impaired.