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News archives for the week of January 9, 2006
January 12, 2006
Learn more on Google's single-click dialing application for advertisers
Google's single-click dialing application highlights the
increasingly cut-throat mobile search and marketing space, where
more than a half dozen firms are seeking to gain a foothold.
Internet giants America Online Inc., Ask Jeeves Inc., Google and
Yahoo Inc. are lumbering onto the wireless playground, where smaller
companies including 4INFO, Free411.com, InfoSpace Inc., Interchange
Corp. and JumpTap Inc. are already fighting to be the carriers'-and
the consumers'-provider of choice.
January 11, 2006
Larry Page to reassure concerns about Google's book digitisation project
During a briefing with international journalists at CES, Mr
Schmidt and Mr Page sought to reassure concerns about Google's
book digitisation project. "Google book search is about building
the world's largest card catalogue," said Mr Schmidt. "We are not
taking copyrighted information". Google is working with Harvard
University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, the
New York Public Library and Oxford University on the digitisation
project.
January 11, 2006
IAC launches its new comparative shopping search engine
Pronto is a free download with zero adware that you can configure to fit
your online shopping habits. One option is to have it monitor while
you shop and alert you to lower prices on the Internet, which is
what everyone is doing anyway. Pronto's new system works because
you are shopping around and get to a product you are interested in.
Then it pops up and let’s you see what else is out there for
potentially lower prices. This saves you time because today you
end up with many windows open, maybe run through
shopzilla/shopping.com and a couple of others, check eBay, etc.
January 10, 2006
Google's innovation in new markets
The Google Video Store also marks Google’s entry into the major
entertainment market and its ability to produce revenue outside
of the Google AdWords and AdSense programs, which drive the majority
of Google revenue. Almost taking a page from Apple iTunes, the
Google Video Store is a first among the big portals and will solidify
Google as the innovator in the video on demand download market.
January 10, 2006
Online advertising have the highest perceived return on investment
"The largest number of survey participants believes that Internet
advertising methods have the highest perceived return on investment,
significantly ahead of any other category," the report said.
January 9, 2006
Internet users conduct more and more queries with search engines
Americans conducted 5.15 billion searches online during November
2005, up 9 percent from November 2004.
