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News archives for the week of February 19, 2007
Feb. 21, 2007
The AdCenter provides Ask.com with an expandable SEM platform
“The AdCenter provides Ask.com with a rugged and expandable platform to better service its
advertiser base and revenue in a cost-effective manner,” said David Hills, CEO of LookSmart.
“We’re proud to be associated with their success,” added Hills.
Feb. 21, 2007
Google's wide audience and well-known brand recognition
Google has consistently capitalized on its devoted audience and wide brand recognition to
rapidly gain traction in this area, but there's clearly a lot of room for growth," Stewart
added. Google's growing audience turns out to be rather well-capitalized itself. Some 28 percent
of Google Docs & Spreadsheet users earn more than $100,000 annually, and 76 percent earn at
least $50,000 annually.
Feb. 20, 2007
There's a difference between searching on a mobile phone and on a computer
There are a couple of major differences between search on a mobile phone and a computer
that make companies unable to apply the same search engine product to the smaller mobile
screen. The first is relative lack of speed. Most mobile phones have a lot less processing
power than newer PCs, and they frequently have a lot slower Web connections than broadband
users are accustomed to. On top of all that, they often lack the kind of keyboards that
allow for fast typing. These important factors, coupled with the fact that on-the-go
users want their information even faster than they do when surfing the Internet with a
computer, makes mobile users less willing to navigate through a bunch of links for information.
Feb. 19, 2007
The YDN will provide programmers with contextual coding information
The Yahoo Developer Network will provide developers and programmers with contextual information
as they browse code, such as associated documentation and dependencies, bug reports, commentary,
user-tagged code and search results that can be easily shared among other colleagues in the
developer community.
