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Trexy wins British Computer Society Award
The Trexy search platform, a combination of social search, personalised search and meta search, has won the BCS' IT Professional award.
Media partnership discusses rival to YouTube
Big names in the media world, including Fox and CBS Corp, discuss the creation of a rival service to YouTube.
Microsoft challenges Google with Live Search Books.
Microsoft has announced that Live Search Books beta version will be launched in the US on Thursday, 14th December 2006. The service features tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books and will also provide access to books held by the British Library
Site statistics aid SEO campaigns
Having a site statistics program on your website can aid webmasters in having a successful search engine optimisation campaign.
Traditional retailers fight back for online sales
Two weeks after bigmouthmedia reported that the UK's 'Hotshops' list was dominated by pure play e-tailers, traditional retailers have come back to fight tooth and nail for online sales.
MySpace owners edge out Yahoo! in page views
Fox Interactive Media, which includes the online social site phenomenon MySpace, usurps Yahoo!'s long held top position for most pages viewed on the internet.
Have Google and the US State Department turned buddy-buddy?
A US State Department officer was recently asked to track down the names of a group of Iranian linked with the state's nuclear weapon's program. And just how did the officer carry out this task? By turning to Google, of course.
Make every click count for charity
Over 33,000 people - and counting - are taking advantage of Everyclick.com, a new charity-focused search engine in the UK.
South Korean web portal teams up with Google
One of South Korea's leading internet portals, Daum, has teamed up with Google, replacing their use of Yahoo!'s Overture search marketing company with Google's AdSense system.
Happy Birthday Yahoo! Answers
Yahoo! Answers, the community based answering service from one of the world's most popular search engines, has enjoyed enormous success in its first year of existence. Even Leonardo DiCaprio uses it!
