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News archives for the week of November 20, 2006

Nov. 22, 2006
Online travel as popular as ever among consumers
comScore Networks puts first-half 2006 online travel sales at $34.7 million, a year-over-year increase of about 14.7 percent. While exact numbers may not always match, all sources agree that online travel sales are continuing to increase steadily.

Nov. 21, 2006
FindWebEvents.com provides information on in-person events
The new search engine looks for Webinars, Webcasts, Web presentations, Web conferences, live Web events, podcasts and streaming media. In addition to Web and online events, FindWebEvents.com also provides information on in-person events, training and tutorials, books and videos.

Nov. 21, 2006
China's court decision overturns an earlier ruling against Baidu
China's court decision overturns an earlier ruling, which had ordered Baidu to pay an EMI Records distributor 68,000 yuan (£8,400). Record companies including EMI, Sony BMG, Warner Music and Universal Music had demanded a public apology from Baidu, the immediate suspension of its download service and 1.73m yuan ($216,250) in monetary compensation.

Nov. 20, 2006
Microsoft Live Search warning search engine spammers to stop
Microsoft is sending a powerful message to these spammers via the ban, because if sites do continue to use these link farms and spammy techniques, they are going to hurt overall search results that another search engine is going to be affected.