January, 2007
Belgian editors group accuses Yahoo of violating copyright laws
The Belgian editors group, Copiepresse, accuses Yahoo of violating copyright laws by giving Internet users access to archived newspaper articles which the papers themselves would now charge people to read. The Copiepresse lawyer has sent a formal notice to Yahoo! yesterday, without taking any legal actions yet. In September 2006, Google had to remove all content from [...]
Google plans to open largest foreign office in Zurich
According to an article in the “Neue Zurcher Zeitung“, Google has rented a new office space in Zurich / Swiss. The building, with a space of more than 120,000 square feet and an option on further 50,000 square feet, will be the largest Google Location outside the USA. It has been rented for the next 10 years, [...]
December U.S. Search Engine Rankings
comScore Networks today released its monthly Search analysis of activity across competitive search engines. In December 2006, Google Sites captured 47.3 percent of the U.S. search market, gaining 0.4 share points from the previous month. Yahoo! Sites grew 0.3 share points, maintaining its second place ranking with 28.5 percent of U.S. searches, followed by Microsoft Sites [...]
DMOZ Is Taking New Site Submissions Again
Seems, that DMOZ.org is accepting new site submissions again. After a lot of technical problems lately, DMOZ has disabled site suggestions and also most editor functions. Here is a status update from the Resource Zone Forum: “The Site Suggestion, Update Listing, Editor Reinstatement, and Forgotten Password forms are available again. New editor applications are still disabled [...]
Morello CMS now powered by Google Search
Mediasurface has announced the launch of a connector to the Google Search Appliance for its Morello content management system. “Mediasurface and Google have signed a distribution agreement in which Mediasurface will bundle the Google Search Appliance with Morello, its award winning web content management system enabling the two organisations to provide best of breed web [...]
Yahoo! launched new mobile search “oneSearch”
Yahoo! announced the release of their new mobile search platform oneSearch. The new service is optimized for the requirements of todays mobil devices – limited bandwidth, small screen size and time. “Our goal with this release is to provide a rich set of relevant content for a given query from a number of different categories [...]