Baidu Still China’s Search Engine Leader
According to Analysis International, a global research firm, Baidu was the leading search engine in China during the fourth quarter of 2007. Baidu led the Chinese search engine industry with 60.1 percent of the Chinese search engine market share and was followed by Google who came in second with a 25.9 percent share. Yahoo followed Google with 9.6 percent.
Yahoo Planning To Lay Off Workers
Word is spreading all over the Internet that Yahoo is planning on laying off hundreds of employees this year. It's never good news to hear that people will be losing jobs but we must consider the company's position along with the status of the economy. Yahoo laying off hundreds of employees is not the first case of a global company cutting jobs and it most likely won't be the last. It is very difficult for any company, including Yahoo, to go head to head with Google. At the moment it's uncertain which departments will be experiencing the most cuts, but Yahoo does plan to focus its business on a few crucial areas. A guess would be that they will continue placing great emphasis on search engine quality, but the rest is really unknown. Stay tuned to learn more.
Index Update For Yahoo Search
According to the Yahoo Search Blog, Yahoo has updated its index and users should expect to see some changes to rankings in the next few days. This is said to be the first index update of the year and it surely won’t be the last. Such updates generally impact the way Yahoo crawls, indexes, and ranks web pages.
Spam Results in Google
If you search Google on a regular basis, on occasion you may come across a spam site listed for a query and you don't know how to handle the situation. Well know you do. You can inform Google of a spam result by filing a report via this web page. Google works quite hard to make sure their search engine results are as good as possible although no person (or computer is perfect), that is why you can help fix the results displayed by Google via their spam result reporting page. By the way, don't expect Google to get back to you by filing a report and in some cases Google may not consider the report.
Search Engine Hot Spots
Having a strong presence on the major search engines priceless. The following image provides you with a break down of the "Golden Triangle" on search engines. The Golden Triangle refers to the area in red, a place that you should work to have your web site positioned.
Fast Search Gets Acquired Microsoft for $1.23 Billion
Microsoft has acquired Fast Search and Transfer ASA, a Norwegian data search technology company. Fast Search is located in Oslo and it is believed that this acquisition by Microsoft will greatly help the company's Live search engine.
December 2007: Google Still The Leader
The numbers are in...no were not referring to the New Hampshire Primary, we are talking about the search industry leaders for the month of December 2007. The latest figures show Google with a 65.98% of the search industry's US market share in December. Yahoo came in second place, once again, with 20.88% of the US market share and MSN came in third place with 7.04%. Ask.com came in fourth with 4.14% of searches.
Google Checkout Fees Starting February 1, 2008
Google Checkout has become a very popular method to accept credit cards via your web site. If your web site is hosted by IPOWERWEB and you do or are considering selling products check out Google Checkout. Currently all Google Checkout sales are free until February 1, 2008. This means that you won't be charged any fees per transaction when sell a product or service via your web site using Google Checkout. Although once February 1, 2008 comes around transactions via Google Checkout will no longer be free, you will have to pay a fee for every single transaction that goes through your web site. The following is the new price breakdown for all Google Checkout transactions as of February 1, 2008.
Sales of up to 10 times your monthly AdWords spend will remain FREE.
Sales in excess of 10 times your monthly AdWords spend will be incur a fee of 2% + $0.20 per transaction.
Wikia Now Open To The Public
Wikia, a search engine founded by Jimmy Wales (the man behind Wikipedia) is officially live in Alpha mode to the public. If you are yet to check out the site we highly recommend you test the search engine and see what you think. This will definitely not be the last search engine created and it will be quite interesting to see how Wikia ends up doing in a market that is significantly controlled by Google.
25 Years TCP/IP – January 1, 1983
Today is the birthday of the Internet. On January 1, 1983 the move to TCP/IP on the ARPANET took place. TCP/IP is the essential computer networking technology that allows communication between between most of the world's computers. Today is a wonderful day and it's truly amazing to see how much the Internet has expanded in just 25 years.