Google launches new e-commerce search engine service - Nov 05, 2009
Network World today reported that Google has launched a new search engine service specifically for large e-commerce sites. The new Google Commerce Search includes some of the most popular Google search features such as spell checker, query stemming and synonym recognition that are of particular use to e-commerce sites. Read More
              

Yahoo! announces open source distribution of Traffic Server - Nov 03, 2009
Yahoo! launched today an open source version of Traffic Server, a high performance application server for builders of cloud services. Traffic Server enables the session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing and routing for an entire cloud computing stack. Read More
              

Google Mobile App launched for Nokia S60 phones, and available in Mandarin Chinese - Nov 02, 2009
Google announced today that its search by voice is now available for Nokia S60 phones. Although it has only been available in English, the company also announced that the new version of Google Mobile App for Nokia S60 devices is now available for Mandarin speakers. Read More
              

Google adds Similar Images search in competition with Bing - Nov 02, 2009
The battle between search engine heavyweight champion Google and contender Bing continues to heat up, as both companies have traded updates and innovations to their programs in recent weeks. Read More
              

Google launches new music feature - Oct 29, 2009
Two of the top 10 queries in the U.S. are music related, according to data from Google's Insights for Search. In response, the search giant has introduced Google Music, a new search feature that allows users to easily search and discover millions of songs. Read More
              

Facebook "memorializes" dead profiles - Oct 28, 2009
CNET reports that Facebook is attempting to address a sensitive subject by "memorializing" the profile of a person who has died. After a family member or close friend confirms their relationship to the person and that the person is deceased, Facebook will remove what it deems to be "sensitive" information from the profile – including contact information and status updates (making sure that Facebook members don't receive a birthday announcement for a dead friend or relative). Read More
              

Google incorporates tweets into search results - Oct 22, 2009
On the same day that Bing announced its deal with Twitter to include their updates in its search results, Google also announced the same deal, along with another surprise. Now when users search in Google for any query that can be aided by a real-time observation, such as snow conditions at a ski resort, they will find tweets from other users who are sharing the latest information. Read More
              

Microsoft integrates Twitter data into Bing search results - Oct 21, 2009
The San Jose Mercury News reported on Wednesday that Microsoft has scored a coup in its attempts to make its Bing search engine competitive with industry leader Google. Bing will now allow people to search and filter Twitter\ Read More
              

New center for accessibility at Google - Oct 20, 2009
Google revealed last Friday a new site that will serve as a hub for all of its new accessibility features and improvements. The new website, www.google.com/accessibility, will allow users to follow the latest accessibility updates from blogs, find resources from the help center, participate in discussion groups, or send feedback and feature requests. Read More
              

Wolfram Alpha: from free search engine to $50 iPhone app - Oct 19, 2009
Are you willing to pay $50 for a search engine on your iPhone? Internet company Rain Man hopes so, as Wired reports that the company is charging users $50 to use its Wolfram Alpha search engine as an app instead of accessing it for free on a browser. Read More
              

Google's Street View hits the trails - Oct 16, 2009
Google announced today the launch of Street View Trike, a project to bring Street View to new places that cannot be reached by car, such as running trails, pedestrian malls, universities and theme parks. By using its new creation, a high-tech bicycle with a mounted Street View camera, the company has already captured some imagery from hard-to-reach places such as the Arastradero Open Preserve and LEGOLAND California. Read More
              

Buy Promoted Videos in AdWords - Oct 14, 2009
Google announced today the ability for consumers to purchase Promoted Videos directly in AdWords. According to the Google Blog, any AdWords advertiser with video content can use Promoted Videos to promote a product with the opportunity for it to reach a larger audience, from a small business looking to promote a service to a movie studio premiering a new trailer. Read More
              

Mystery Google shows you someone else's search results - Oct 13, 2009
In time for Halloween, Google has launched a new Web search site called Mystery Google. Located at www.mysterygoogle.com, the site provides search results – just not yours. Instead, Google says that with Mystery Google "you get what the person before you searched for." Read More
              

Yahoo! provides access to Search ads in Boss - Oct 12, 2009
In partnership with Domain Development Corp (DDC), Yahoo! has made it possible for developers to gain global access to Yahoo! Sponsored Search results and benefit from revenue generated by their Boss-powered products. Read More
              

Google releases new version of Quick View - Oct 09, 2009
Google has launched an updated version of Quick View, a feature that allows users to view PDFs as HTML right in a web browser without having to download and open them in a separate viewer application. Read More
              

Microsoft enhances Reference section of Bing - Oct 08, 2009
With its Bing search engine hoping to continue to gain ground on market leader Google, Microsoft has announced another enhancement designed to compete with its rivals. According to eWeek, the newly-revamped Reference section of Bing will now include easy access to Wikipedia and Freebase articles. Read More
              

Study shows interplay between search marketing and social media - Oct 07, 2009
A new study released by GroupM Search and comScore reveals the dramatic correlation that influenced discovery of brands through social media has with search behavior, including more lower-funnel queries and increased paid search click-through-rates (CTR). Read More
              

Ask.com launches new shopping service - Oct 06, 2009
Wired News is reporting that Ask.com has launched a new shopping service designed to aggregate the best prices and deals from around the Internet on everything from electronics to food. Company spokespeople have said that the new specialty search engine called Ask Deals was created in response to Web surfers trying to find the best deals possible in tough economic times. Read More
              

Google AdSense for mobile updated for high-end phones - Oct 05, 2009
Google announced today a new feature for AdSense mobile publishers that will allow publishers the ability to run larger AdSense ads on high-end phones. Publishers can now serve text and image ads on their sites, allowing them to earn revenue and fund more mobile-specific sites and Web content. Read More
              

Google celebrates 11th anniversary with new Google Doodle - Sep 30, 2009
If anyone was confused by the extra "L" on the Google Search banner on Sunday, it wasn't because a designer made an incredibly dumb typo and was probably currently shopping around his resume. The answer was actually quite simple: Monday was the 11th anniversary of Google, so the company decided to have some fun with its name plate and turn the "L" in its name into an "11." Read More
              

Google incorporates Hot Trends into search results - Sep 29, 2009
In an effort to offer real-time search, Google has launched a new web search feature that allows users to track the latest trends on the web. Available in the U.S. and Japan, the new feature is designed to help users focus on the top, most interesting content on any given day. Read More
              

Google celebrates 11th anniversary with new Google Doodle - Sep 28, 2009
If anyone was confused by the extra “L” on the Google Search banner on Sunday, it wasn’t because a designer made an incredibly dumb typo and was probably currently shopping around his resume. Read More
              

Google Unveils Sidewiki - Sep 24, 2009
Earlier this week, Google announced the launch of Google Sidewiki, a new feature that allows users to contribute helpful information next to any Web page. The new feature appears as a browser sidebar, where users can read and write relevant entries along the side of the page. Read More
              

Microsoft and Yahoo! discussing partnership with European regulators - Sep 18, 2009
Given its past history with European regulators, it's not surprising to read a report by Computerworld that Microsoft is proceeding very cautiously in its search engine partnership that will see Yahoo! use Microsoft's Bing technology to power its search engine while Yahoo! will use its ad sales acumen for both companies. Read More
              

Google Buys reCAPTCHA - Sep 17, 2009
Google announced yesterday that it has acquired reCAPTCHA, a company that provides CAPTCHAs to help protect websites from spam and fraud. CAPTCHAs are those squiggly letters that when identified are designed to allow humans in but keep malicious programs out. Read More
              

Start up search engine AnyClip makes movie clip searching possible - Sep 16, 2009
Have you ever looked online for a favorite scene from a certain movie, only to leave empty-handed after a lengthy search session? A new search engine aims to fix that, as Slash Film says that start-up AnyClip is attempting to create a search engine that will allow movie fans to find "any moment from any film ever made." Read More
              

Google Reveals Fast Flip for Online Newspapers and Magazines - Sep 15, 2009
Google announced today the launch of Fast Flip, a new reading experience that allows users to browse sequentially through online news, headlines and feeds from individual top publishers. Unlike typical online articles that can take up to 10 seconds to load, Fast Flip allows readers to browse content seamlessly much like flipping through a physical magazine or newspaper. Read More
              

New Collective Online Archive Tells Story of 9/11 - Sep 11, 2009
In an effort to preserve the memories of 9/11, Google has announced the launch of Make History, an interactive website created by the National September 11th Memorial and Museum in collaboration with Google and design firm Local Projects. The new website is a participatory archive that allows people to share their experiences by uploading photos, video or written accounts of 9/11 and its aftermath. Read More
              

IBM partners with EU group on new search engine technology - Sep 11, 2009
The Wall Street Journal reports that IBM has partnered with a group from the European Union to tackle a major problem with search engines: how to handle the increasingly large amount of mixed media that is part of the Internet. Read More
              

Study Reveals Online Video Consumption - Sep 09, 2009
Online video has fundamentally shifted the concept of "prime time" to "all the time," according to a new study conducted by OVEC, a variety of media companies including Yahoo! and Warner Bros. Read More
              

Google patents design of home page - Sep 08, 2009
After five years of efforts, Google has finally secured a patent for its home page. While this might seem like a trivial matter, the broad nature of the patent means that it could have some interesting consequences for other search engines competing with Google now and in the future. Read More
              

Google Domestic Trends: tracking economic activity - Sep 04, 2009
Google has announced the launch of Google Domestic Trends on Google Finance, a new tool that tracks Google search traffic across specific sectors of the economy. Users can now use one of 23 indexes to track major economic industries such as advertising and marketing, auto financing and retail trade. Read More
              

Bing leads Google in successful Canadian Web searches - Sep 03, 2009
Although Google is still the dominant force in Web searches in the United States and worldwide, Microsoft Bing is making strides to cut into its market share. Read More
              

Google Translate Receives New Languages - Sep 02, 2009
Google has added nine new languages to it automatic translation software Google Translate, reaching a total of 51 languages and 2550 language pairs. Users can now translate text in Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish. Read More
              

ImHalal.com matches Web content and Islamic Law - Sep 01, 2009
While the Internet's ability to bring a diverse range of information to a wide population is one of its main benefits, for people of certain religious backgrounds this can be a major drawback. Read More
              

Yahoo! Search Includes New SearchMonkey-Enhanced Results - Aug 31, 2009
Yahoo! has announced it will be expanding its SearchMonkey results to include enhanced search results for more categories including Products, Local Businesses, Entertainment, Reference, Social and Tech sites. Read More
              

Real-time search engines grow in popularity - Aug 28, 2009
Investors seem to be backing the popular notion that real-time searching is going to be a growing sector. Industry leader OneRiot announced on their blog on Aug. 27 that they have raised an additional $7 million in Series C funding from existing investors, including Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Appian Ventures and Spark Capital. Read More
              

YouTube Opens Partnership Program to More Users - Aug 27, 2009
Just about anyone can now get paid for creating a video on YouTube, as long as it attracts viewers. Google has announced they are extending the YouTube Partnership Program (YPP) to include individual popular videos on the site. While the YPP was initially created to help YouTube's more popular users make money from their videos, such as prolific users like Fred and ValsArtDiary, the company now plans to invite individual users with amateur-made videos that have accumulated a lot of viewers. Read More
              

Retailers coming around to search engine advertising - Aug 26, 2009
Data released by search marketing firm Performics shows that retailers are gaining confidence in the power of search advertising, a sign that retailers are beginning to ramp up their spending as the holidays approach. Read More
              

Yahoo! Expands to Arab Countries - Aug 25, 2009
Yahoo! today announced its decision to acquire Maktoob.com, a major online community in the Arab world with more than 16.5 million users. The acquisition (expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2009) will enable Yahoo! to expand its products and services with Arabic-language content and services Read More
              

Linux users favor Google search by massive margin - Aug 24, 2009
Users of the Linux operating system are definitely a particular breed, as evidenced by their (some would say stubborn ) support for an OS that is largely ignored by the rest of the world. This has forced them to create many unique Linux-only applications giving free options to established Web apps. Read More
              

Google Enhances Enterprise Labs - Aug 20, 2009
Google has added two new tools for Google Enterprise Search: Side-by-Side search comparison and new connectors for the Google Search Appliance (GSA), both available in Enterprise Laps. Read More
              

Google celebrates five years of IPO - Aug 19, 2009
On August 14, 2004, Google went public on NASDAQ with an initial offering of $85 a share. And as Paul R. La Monica on CNN Money points out, if you were able to get in on this initial IPO offering, you are probably a very happy person today. That's because today the stock trades at about $445 a share, a 420 percent gain during a time period when the NASDAQ has only gone up eight percent. Read More
              

Google Users More Active and Devoted than Microsoft/Yahoo Users - Aug 18, 2009
Google users are more loyal and conduct more searches than Yahoo! and Microsoft searchers combined, according to new data from ComScore. Although the new duo experienced a combined search penetration of 73 percent, Google continues to remain on top with 84 percent of the overall search market. Read More
              

Event ticket search engine FanSnap announces additional $5 million in funding - Aug 17, 2009
FanSnap, a search engine for fans looking to purchase tickets to sporting events, concerts and other live events, announced last week that it has secured a $5 million round of funding from Highland Capital Partners, whose general partner Richard de Silva will receive a seat on the FanSnap board of directors. Read More
              

iGoogle Boasts New Social Gadgets - Aug 13, 2009
Google has introduced new social features for its customizable homepage iGoogle. People currently use iGoogle to check email, track the news, watch videos, and chat with friends. Read More
              

Google raises the curtain on new Caffeine project - Aug 12, 2009
As a potential response to Microsoft Bing, Google announced on Tuesday its new Caffeine project, which is designed to index pages faster – a possible step to real-time searching on par with Twitter – along with better ways to search for social media content and placing such information higher in future search results. Read More
              

Yahoo! Deals Offers Online Bargains and Rewards - Aug 12, 2009
Yahoo! has launched a revamped version of Yahoo! Deals (http://deals.yahoo.com)-- its online source for coupons and bargains. The new website offers daily deals, online coupons, grocery coupons, local coupons, store circulators and exclusive deals. The new site also features social and community articles as well as video shorts on how to save money. Read More
              

Google launches "Prices from the Page" to help with price comparison shipping - Aug 11, 2009
If you are comparison shopping on Google, you might notice a new feature when you receive your results. As the blog "Google Operating System" notes, the site has now integrated prices from different online shopping sites into their results fields. Read More
              

Delicious Announces New Search Features - Aug 07, 2009
This week, Yahoo! launched new improvements to its social bookmarking web service, Delicious. The new features include time filters, a trends graph, tag filters, enhanced search results, and search suggestions. Read More
              

Yebol.com launches with semantic search technology - Aug 06, 2009
On the heels of the partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft to share search engine and advertising resources in an attempt to battle search engine monster Google, another competitor is entering the fray. Last week Yebol.com launched in beta mode, claiming to be the next step in search engines by using semantic search technology to deliver categorized results to users. Read More
              

New Google Chrome Beta - Aug 05, 2009
Google today announced a new and improved beta for its Chrome browser. The company boasts that the new beta is not only faster than ever, but shows 30% improvement over the current stable channel release, which was last updated in May. Read More
              

Google Unveils New AdWords Interface - Aug 03, 2009
Google announced last week that the new version of its AdWords interface is now available to virtually all advertisers worldwide. The new interface, which was released for public testing in November 2008, is now free of the beta label and includes a simple design, more data and many additional new features. Read More
              

Microsoft and Yahoo! Finally Shake Hands - Jul 30, 2009
After more than a year of a highly publicized on-again off-again relationship, Microsoft and Yahoo! have finally agreed on a 10-year deal in Internet search and advertising to battle the search engine giant Google. Read More
              

Yahoo! Offers Enhanced Travel Search Results - Jul 28, 2009
Yahoo! has added a new travel image refiner to its Image Search feature, providing users with improved destination-focused search results. The new travel refiner offers access into Yahoo!'s "Web of Objects" and enables users to discover locations all over the world with more contextual information about the destination. Read More
              

Fly to the Moon with Google Earth - Jul 21, 2009
As the U.S. celebrated the 40th anniversary of humankinds first steps on the Moon, Google announced the launch of a new Google Earth feature that will allow users to experience the same adventure. Read More
              

Facebook Celebrates 250 Million Users - Jul 20, 2009
Barely three months after the announcement that Facebook reached 200 million users, the social networking site today announced a new milestone of 250 million active users worldwide, according to a post on the company blog by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Read More
              

Consumers Say Social Networking Does Not Influence Brand Perception - Jul 15, 2009
Although many marketers are counting on social media to drive brand awareness and perception, 96% of employed consumers say that leveraging these tools does almost nothing to alter how they view a brand, according to a new study from WorkPlace Media. Read More
              

Microsoft Solicits Bing Feature Requests - Jul 13, 2009
In a continued effort to woo searchers away from its competition, Microsoft has begun to solicit feature requests for its new "decision engine," Bing. The company recently created a Facebook page where users can post comments about the features they would like to see added. Read More
              

Yahoo! Announces Search Pad - Jul 10, 2009
Yahoo! has launched a new Yahoo! Search feature called Search Pad that allows users to gather, organize, save, and share information they find while researching online. Read More
              

Marketers Adopt Social Media for Consumer Insight and Internal Collaboration - Jul 09, 2009
n a recent survey from the Direct Marketing Association's (DMA) Social Media Council, in partnership with HeadMix, 60% of DMA members representing nearly 40% of the Fortune 100 said that social networking can influence their company's brand awareness in a significant way. Read More
              

Internet Usage among Children on the Rise - Jul 07, 2009
new survey by Nielsen Online highlights the importance of leveraging the online platform for marketing to children. According to Nielsen's figures, the number of kids online has increased 18% in the past five years, while the total online population grew only 10% in that period. Read More
              

Half of Twitter Users Fail to Utilize Service to Full Potential - Jul 06, 2009
Although the popular micro-blogging service Twitter has experienced dramatic growth in the number of accounts since last year, 54.9% of users have never tweeted, 55.5% are not following anyone, and 52.7% have no followers, according to a new study from HubSpot. Read More
              

Bing adds Real-Time Twitter to Search Results - Jul 06, 2009
As part of an effort to integrate real-time data into search results, Microsoft has announced that its one-month-old search engine Bing now includes the latest tweets of Twitter users. Read More
              

Search Engine and Banner Ads Less Helpful Than Other Forms of Advertising, Study Shows - Jul 01, 2009
The results of the latest AdweekMedia/The Harris Poll are in, and they show that when it comes to helping consumers decide which products or services to purchase, search engine and banner ads are not the most effective platforms. Read More
              

Facebook Announces New Chief Financial Officer - Jun 30, 2009
Facebook has named David Ebersman, the former executive vice president and chief financial officer of the biotechnology company Genentech, its new chief financial officer (CFO). Ebersman will report to Facebook's Chief Executive Officer and Founder Mark Zuckerberg. Read More
              

Websites and News Aggregators Struggle to Handle Traffic Related to Jackson's Death - Jun 29, 2009
After the first reports of Michael Jackson's demise surfaced online last week, the Internet struggled to keep pace with the record number of queries and traffic as people sought out the details. Read More
              

Mother's Day Gift and Coupon Sites Top Websites in May 2009 - Jun 25, 2009
After April 2009's focus on swine flu and social networking, U.S. consumers shifted their attention to purchasing Mother's Day gifts and finding coupons in May 2009, comScore's latest analysis of consumer activity shows. Read More
              

Readers Track Favorite Journalists with New Google News Feature - Jun 24, 2009
Google News recently launched a new feature that allows readers to follow the work of their favorite journalists. Clicking on the name of a specific journalist will bring up a list of all articles associated with him or her. Read More
              

Yahoo! Announces Easy Display Ad Solution - Jun 23, 2009
Originally an extension of a program that Yahoo! and AdReady offered to select Yahoo! Small Business customers last year, Yahoo! has announced that its display ad solution My Display Ads is now available to help small and medium-sized businesses easily reach their target audience. Read More
              

Bing Continues to Burgeon - Jun 22, 2009
After claiming a fraction of the search market in the first week of its launch, company-ascribed "decision engine" Bing continued to burgeon and see gains during its second week as well, according to comScore. Read More
              

Memorial Day, Star Trek, and Obama Top List of Blog Topics in May 2009 - Jun 18, 2009
Holidays, movies, and politics were at the forefront of bloggers\ Read More
              

Facebook Revamps Search-Still in Testing Phase - Jun 17, 2009
In an effort to provide its users with a chance to participate in its product development process, Facebook is testing new versions of Facebook Search with a small portion of its users. Read More
              

Google Adds Local Businesses to Product Search Results - Jun 16, 2009
Last week, Google began to experiment with incorporating local businesses into its product search results. This feature, which is intended to benefit both local businesses and consumers who want to purchase products locally, is now open to all participants. Read More
              

New Common Tag Format - Jun 15, 2009
A group of web companies--Yahoo!, AdaptiveBlue, DERI (NUI Galway), Faviki, Freebase, Zemanta, and Zigtag--have created a new tagging format for Web pages called Common Tag. Read More
              

Google on the Prowl for Possible Acquisitions - Jun 12, 2009
After laying off workers, cutting back on unprofitable programs, and generally reigning in spending, Google is once again on the prowl for possible acquisitions, Reuters reports. Read More
              

Wolfram Alpha Launches New Updates - Jun 11, 2009
Nearly three weeks after the launch of the new computational search engine Wolfram Alpha, the company made live on Monday its first wave of updates as part of its "ongoing, long-term development process," according to the official blog. Read More
              

Bing Boosts Microsoft's Search Performance - Jun 10, 2009
Preliminary data from comScore has reinforced earlier findings that Bing is poised to grab a share of the search market from Yahoo and Google. Read More
              

Bing Jumps to Number Two Spot, Overtaking Yahoo - Jun 08, 2009
Within days of launching, Microsoft's new search engine Bing managed to nab the number two spot in terms of market share, overtaking Yahoo in the United States and worldwide, according to data from StatCounter Global Stats. Read More
              

Dramatic Increase in Viewership at YouTube - Jun 05, 2009
U.S. internet users watched 16.8 billion online videos in April, accounting for an increase of 16% versus the previous month, according to data from the comScore Video Metrix service. Read More
              

Google Squared Goes Live - Jun 04, 2009
Google Squared, which Google announced in mid-May, is now available in Google Labs. Read More
              

Twitter Still Not Popular With Generation Y - Jun 03, 2009
Although 99% of Generation Y consumers, individuals between the ages of 18 and 24, say they have an active account on at least one social networking site, only 22% of this same age group say they use Twitter, according to a new study from the Participatory Marketing Network. Read More
              

Social Networking Sites See 83% Year-Over-Year Increase - Jun 02, 2009
The rise of social networking sites continued in April 2009, according to Nielsen Online data, with an 83% increase in the time spent on these sites over April 2008. Read More
              

Microsoft Launches New Search Engine - Jun 01, 2009
Microsoft Corp. last week unveiled its newest search engine, Bing, which will be available worldwide on June 3. Read More
              

Businesses Increasingly Turn to Twitter for Marketing Operations - May 29, 2009
Despite problems with retention, Twitter has quickly become an important social media tool for businesses, particularly small businesses. Read More
              

Yahoo! Adds New Filter to Image Search - May 28, 2009
Yahoo! has developed a new filter for Yahoo! Image Search that will allow users to access images that are available for reuse. Read More
              

McAfee Identifies Riskiest Search Terms - May 27, 2009
Internet security company McAfee, Inc. recently released a report describing the web\ Read More
              

Yahoo! Improves Smart Ads - May 26, 2009
Yahoo! announced last week that it has expanded its Smart Ads program by combining its reach and user knowledge with new ad-serving technology from third-party providers. Read More
              

Google Launches New Chrome - May 25, 2009
Last week, Google launched a new version of its Google Chrome web browser. Read More
              

Study Downgrades Social Media for Marketing - May 22, 2009
Social media has reached its tipping point, with 80% of the online population now using it in some form and more than half on a regular basis, according to a new report released by Knowledge Networks. Read More
              

Study Says Social Media Has Yet to Prove Marketing Prowess - May 21, 2009
A recent study by Knowledge Networks shows that even though 83% of the Internet population ages 13 to 54 engages in social media use in some form, social media has failed to prove its marketing prowess. Read More
              

Twitter Co-Founder Says Monetization Will Not Revolve Around Ads - May 20, 2009
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone recently told Reuters that monetization of the microblogging service will not include advertising, the staple of many search engines' and web startups' revenue. Read More
              

YouTube Ranks as Top Video Web Brand; Hulu Still Growing - May 18, 2009
Although YouTube maintained its position as the top video web brand in the US, with 5.5 billion total streams in April 2009, Hulu's exponential growth earned it the number two spot last month, with a total of 373.3 million streams, according to data from Nielsen Online. Read More
              

CDC Website and Social Networks Top Sites in April 2009 - May 18, 2009
ComScore's April 2009 U.S. online activity data shows that the website for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and social networking sites were top sites for the month. Read More
              

Paid Search Traffic Falls 26% - May 15, 2009
Hitwise data recently showed that paid traffic has fallen 26% in the last year for every major category tracked, including automotive, food and beverage, and health and medical, with the exception of education. Read More
              

Yahoo! Sites Leading U.S. Display Ad Publisher; AT&T Leading Display Advertiser - May 14, 2009
Yahoo! Sites ranked as the top U.S. display ad publisher in March while AT&T came in as the top display advertiser in the same month, according to recent data from the comScore Ad Metrix service. Read More
              

Online Spending Remains Strong Despite Recession - May 14, 2009
Despite the recession, 41% of consumers plan to spend as much money shopping online as they did one year ago, according to the first monthly "2009 Online Buyer Economic Trend Study" by Performics and ROI Research. Read More
              

Google Announces Search Options, Rich Snippets, and Google Squared - May 13, 2009
Yesterday, Google announced three new updates to its search service. The first, called Search Options, helps users prune their results and generate different views to locate desired information. Read More
              

Women Turn To Blogs for Information over Social Networking Sites - May 12, 2009
Women are nearly twice as likely to use blogs than social networking sites as a source of information (64%), advice and recommendations (43%), and opinion-sharing (55%), while they are 50% more likely to turn to social networking sites as a means of keeping in touch with friends and family (75%), according to the 2009 Women in Social Media Study conducted by BlogHer, iVillage, and Compass Partners. Read More
              

Study Shows Online Ads Pique Internet Users' Interests - May 12, 2009
Online advertising elicits an active response from 52% of Internet users, according to the "Search Engine Marketing and Online Display Advertising Integration Study" conducted by Forrester Consulting for iProspect. Read More
              

Twitter Search to Start Crawling Links and Indexing Content - May 11, 2009
Although rampant rumors of an Apple buyout have been swirling around Twitter, Twitter's only confirmed news in the past week had to do with the service itself—more specifically its search component. Read More
              

Weak Economy Paves Way for Social Media Marketing - May 08, 2009
According to an industry study conducted by Forrester Research for Shop.org, online retailers are turning from traditional advertising to more affordable tools such as Facebook.com, Twitter, and email as they seek market share or try to keep customers, reports the Associated Press. Read More
              

Wolfram Alpha to Launch Soon - May 07, 2009
Later this month, Wolfram Research, British physicist Stephen Wolfram's software company, will unveil Wolfram Alpha, its new "computational knowledge engine." Read More
              

Rumors Surface That Apple May Buy Twitter - May 06, 2009
Despite Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone's recent statement the company is committed to "building a strong, independent Twitter Inc.," rumors have once again surfaced that Twitter is up for acquisition—this time by Apple. Read More
              

Study Finds 60% of Twitter Users Quit After First Month - May 05, 2009
lthough Twitter, helped by its growing legion of celebrity users, has become ubiquitous in social media, the microblogging service faces retention challenges that may encumber its continued growth, says a Nielsen Online report. Read More
              

H1N1 Virus Spreads Online - May 05, 2009
As the number of people infected by the H1N1 virus continues to increase worldwide, U.S. consumer search activity related to the term also increased during the week ending April 26, 2009 compared to the previous week, according to a recent study released by comScore. Read More
              

Local Search Grows at a Faster Rate than Overall Online Search - May 04, 2009
A new study from the Yellow Pages Association (YPA) conducted by comScore shows that local search is growing at a much faster rate than overall online search. Read More
              

100 Days of Obama Reflected in Photos and Yahoo! Searches - May 01, 2009
In light of President Obama's 100th day in office, the White House has released a collection of 300 photographs that are available for the public to view on Flickr. Read More
              

Online Video Viewing Jumps 11% in March 2009 - May 01, 2009
ComScore's Video Metrix service reports that online video viewing increased 11% between February 2009 and March 2009 as U.S. Read More
              

New Google Updates to AdSense Policies - Apr 30, 2009
Google recently announced several updates to its AdSense program policies page. Read More
              

Economic, Learning, and Social Motivations Driver Twitter Users - Apr 29, 2009
A recent study by MarketingProfs, LLC revealed that Twitter users have a variety of motivations when it comes to tweeting, counter to the popular perception that tweeting is strictly an ego-fueled or business-motivated activity. Read More
              

Facebook Opens Stream API to Developers, Users Can Access Stream Anywhere - Apr 28, 2009
The popular social networking site Facebook has opened its most celebrated feature—the stream—through the new Facebook Open Stream API for developers. Read More
              

Online Social Networking and Video Cause "Dramatic Shift in Global Online Landscape" - Apr 28, 2009
According to a new report from The Nielsen Company, online social networks and videos have caused "a dramatic shift in the global online landscape" for both consumers and advertisers. Read More
              

Yahoo! Names New Senior Vice President of Customer Advocacy - Apr 27, 2009
Yahoo! announced last week that Jeff Russakow has been appointed the new senior vice president of customer advocacy. Read More
              

U.S. Internet Users Go Online for Tweeting, Financial Advice, and Travel Planning in March 2009 - Apr 27, 2009
New data from comScore Media Metrix shows that U.S. Internet users went online in March 2009 for travel planning, financial advice, and tweeting. Read More
              

Social Media and Search Engine Optimization: A Symbiotic Relationship or Separate Spheres? - Apr 23, 2009
With all of the ado being made about social media/networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, and LinkedIn, etc., the Internet is bulging with links. Read More
              

Premier Advertising and Marketing Tradeshow ad:tech Comes to San Francisco - Apr 23, 2009
ad:tech, an industry tradeshow for media, marketing, and technology professionals, is taking place April 21-23, 2009 in San Francisco, California. Read More
              

UK Retailers Receive Less Paid Search Traffic - Apr 23, 2009
With the growth of social media, the proportion of search traffic that UK online retailers receive from paid search listings has fallen from 27.8% in March 2008 to 22.5% in March 2009, reports Hitwise UK Research Director Robin Goad. Read More
              

Social Networking Sites Less Popular Than Media Depicts - Apr 23, 2009
Despite media depiction, not everyone is tweeting and opening Facebook and MySpace accounts, Harris Interactive reports. In fact, 51% of Americans do not engage in any of the three aforementioned social media/networking sites, a recent Harris poll showed. Read More
              

Yahoo! First-Quarter Results - Apr 22, 2009
ahoo! released its first-quarter profits yesterday of $1,580 million, revealing a decrease of 13% from the first-quarter of 2008. Read More
              

Google Includes Profiles in SERPs - Apr 22, 2009
Vanity searches have reached a new level with Google's announcement that it will now include Google Profiles at the bottom of its search engine results pages (SERPs). Read More
              

Ask.com Resurrects Jeeves in the UK - Apr 21, 2009
After a three-year hiatus, the Internet's favorite butler-cum-savant, Jeeves, is back. Ask.com retired Jeeves in February 2006 after 10 years of service. Read More
              

Facebook Opens Voting Period to Active Users - Apr 21, 2009
Facebook has announced that users can now vote on which documents they want to serve as the foundation for governing the site. Read More
              

March U.S. Search Share Rankings - Apr 16, 2009
Americans conducted an estimated 9.5 billion searches in March, representing a year-over-year (YoY) increase of 16.7%, according to a recent report by Nielsen Online. Read More
              

Google Creates Timeline of News Articles, Promises More Features to Come - Apr 16, 2009
Last week, Google introduced a "timeline of articles" feature in Google News that chronicles the order in which news stories develop. Read More
              

Facebook Grows Worldwide - Apr 15, 2009
Facebook is the sixth most popular Web property in the world, according to a recent report by comScore. With 275 million visitors worldwide in February, the social networking site has seen a 175% increase from last year. Read More
              

Google Finance Begins Accepting Image-Based Ads - Apr 15, 2009
The latest update to Google's advertising services is the addition of image-based ads to Google Finance. Read More
              

Twitter Driven by Older Crowd - Apr 14, 2009
Contrary to popular belief, Twitter is not just for young adults ages 18 to 24.  While this age group has often been identified as the first to adopt social media, recent statistics from comScore reveal that the majority of Twitter users worldwide are actually between 25 and 54 years old. Read More