Search engine marketing industry news stories gathered constantly by the bigmouthmedia team.
Google's last quarter net profit exceeds expectations
Google's astonishing financial performance is continuing unabated: the world's largest search engine has just reported a net profit of $1.03 billion in the last quarter of 2006 - triple the profit from the same quarter in 2005.
Google lose out in European battle for GMail
Yet again Google has ended up on the losing side in a legal battle over the Gmail name, after their application to register the term as a Europe-wide trademark was denied.
Yahoo! builds 'Brand Universe'
Yahoo! have announced that they plan to launch 100 new websites this year. Built around popular entertainment brands, these sites will form an online 'Brand Universe' that will pull together content from various Yahoo! properties.
Tagging is becoming the new search tool
Over a quarter of Americans are tagging the content they put online, according to a recent project by Pew Internet and American Life.
Google speak personally
A subtle yet significant change has hit all Google account users with the implementation of an automatic personalised search feature. Google will now automatically track new account searches to offer personalised, relevant search results.
Mobile phone firms plan their own search engine
Europe's biggest telecoms groups are planning a meeting to discuss a project that will create a mobile phone search engine.
Google's OneBox search results
Specialised Google search results, also known as 'one box results', are being integrated within normal search results, as Google have recently formalised a patent for this additional algorithmic variation.
Browser wars redux - Microsoft IE7 and Mozilla Firefox stats and graphs
Firefox 2 market share increases at the direct expense of Internet Explorer; IE7 take-up over IE6 is now falling as users who don't know how to avoid the update process level off.
Yahoo! turns another rock - and finds a new search ranking model
Yahoo! has just introduced a new platform model across the US online advertising network. The project, a component of Yahoo!'s company-wide search initiative, "Panama," will consider both bid amount and ad quality to determine an ad's run in search.
New Amazon Unbox on TiVo service offers videos downloaded direct to your living room
A partnership between Amazon.com and TiVo will offer video downloads direct to the living rooms of TiVo customers in the US.
