America Online’s Platform-A tops the U.S. rankings for ad networks. That puts Platform-A ahead of Web heavyweight’s Yahoo’s Ad Network in second-place and Google’s Ad Network, in third, according to a comScore report out today. The research firm also said online ad networks posted double-digit growth while grabbing market share from the big sites that [...]
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Microsoft may unveil new search engine next week
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Source: Ajay & John (Reuters)
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is likely to show a new version of its Internet search engine publicly for the first time next week, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.
The software giant has been testing a new version of the service internally under the name of Kumo.com [...]
Yahoo Talks About Delivering Smarter Search
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Author: David Needle (Internet News)
Yahoo picked the first anniversary of its launch of SearchMonkey to update the public on its progress on several key fronts, including improvements to mobile and image-related results.
SearchMonkey gives site owners a structured way to expose key data to Yahoo’s search engine, so, for example, a restaurant’s menu or location would [...]
Yahoo’s new techniques can find out who’s been spammy or nice
Sunday, May 17th, 2009Source/Author: Lizzie Buchen (Wired)
You are how you e-mail: A new technique can tell people apart using only the timestamps in their Sent folders.
In the interactive, real-time world of Twitter, blogs and World of Warcraft, timing is one of the most salient aspects of social behavior. Now, researchers at Northwestern University and Yahoo Research in New [...]
Another blow to free online backup and storage services
Friday, May 15th, 2009The world of free hosting, data backups and storage has taken yet another blow as it shows more signs of a dying trend.
Companies such as AOL (Xdrive & AOL Pictures), Hewlett-Packard (Upline), Yahoo (Briefcase), & Sony (Image Station)..have recently closed their doors to these services as the costs were not justifiable.
Experts say that it costs [...]
Interactive Ad Bureau (IAB) Issues Pay-Per-Click Guidelines
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009Source/Author: Michelle Megna (Internet News)
New guideline issued today by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) are aimed at reconciling what constitutes a legitimate click in terms of online pay-per-click campaigns, in which advertisers pay publishers for each time a user clicks on an ad.
To an Internet user, a click is a simple action, but for online [...]
