If the recent long awaited online developments coming to fruition and unexpected moves shaking up the digital game plan are anything to go by, we're in store for another exciting month of online revelations. So sit back, hold tight and make sure you're ready to launch into summer with the latest sizzling edition of the bigmouthmedia newsletter.
Microsoft got the month off to a bold start with the launch of new "decision engine" Bing, its attempt to loosen Google's stranglehold on the search market. However, the Mountain View giant didn't await the announcement quietly. Google Wave - an in-browser, real-time communication tool - was unveiled this week, as was a new dashboard tool for small businesses.
The week also saw a few surprise departures and arrivals; former Bebo executive Joanna Shields announced she's parting ways with AOL and Yahoo! unveiled a new addition to its Haifa lab - former Googler Yoelle Maarek.
Google also provoked questions with its new terms and conditions and a shock court decision may be giving the search giant pause for thought - a Dutch website has been successfully sued for the way that Google summarised one of its pages.
Here at the bigmouthmedia office, the feeling of invigoration in the air is palpable as we look to the seismic shifts taking place online and, as always, our team is keen to delve in. This week our intrepid reporters investigated the way that social media could be affecting small print, webmaster tools that shouldn't be forgotten and pondered the predictive capabilities of Google's Insight for Search.
The biggest names in search are staking their places for the summer months, so delve into the news stories set to chart their successes and failures with the red-hot bigmouthmedia newsletter.
Google releases analytics for Local Businesses
Google's Local Business Center releases search analytics for local searches.
Website sued over content of Google snippet
Dutch website MiljoenHuizen has been reprimanded by courts after a snippet displayed by Google was found to be misleading.
Bing.com - "the decision engine"
Today Microsoft launched its much anticipated "Google killer" of a search engine - Bing.com.
Yahoo! gets a Google addition
Former Google employee Yoelle Maarek has joined the Yahoo! group.
Google Wave announced
Google has announced the development of a new form of online communication
Has Google just given eBay 30 days to accept new T&Cs?
Google has rolled out changes to Google Base's Terms and Conditions and given users 30 days to accept the new rules or discover that their items no longer feature in the search results.
Forgotten Robots - Webmaster Tools to Remember
Search Engine Optimisers (SEOs) and webmasters have been given so many ways to communicate with search engines that sometimes it's easy to forget the most rudimentary and useful ones.
Small Print is Dead! Long live social media?
A bigmouth investigates the ways in which the spread of social media is killing off small print.
Who won the Premiership according to Google?
Google unofficially entered the prediction market by releasing a widget which successfully calculated that Norway would win the Eurovision Song Contest - can we do the same for the Premiership?
Joanna Shields parts ways with AOL
Joanna Shields, former Bebo exec turned head of AOL's People Networks division, is now parting ways with the web pioneer.
