Industry News

NLA suspends link charges
The Newspaper Licensing Agency has met with opposition to its 2010 charging model from news aggregators such as NewsNow and the Norwegian Meltwater monitoring firm.

Googlebot crawling fictional URLs in JavaScript
Googlebot is reported to be crawling fictional URLs held within JavaScript.

Where do we go from here? Google reveals localised mobile search
Google integrates geo-positioning into its mobile searches.

French President Sarkozy plans to tax Google
The French President unveiled plans to investigate the possibility of taxing international search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo! that dominate online advertising in France.

Google: Generating energy offline?
Could Google be considering a foray into the energy business?

Google 'Nexus Two' will rival BlackBerry
Google has already discussed plans for the successor to the Nexus One, which looks to be aimed at the enterprise smartphone market and feature a physical keyboard.

Bebo renews Yahoo! ad contract despite cutbacks
AOL's troubled administration of social networking site Bebo has taken another turn, with the company extending its advertising contract with search engine Yahoo!

China's leading search engine hacked
Baidu.com was targeted by the Iranian Cyber Army, the same group responsible for December's Twitter attack.

Google unveils 'new approach to China'
The Mountain View giant is reviewing its operations in China, following a sophisticated and targeted cyber attack that originated in the nation.

Google explains real time Twitter search
Google lifts the lid on its Twitter indexing methods.