There are reports of people receiving fraud settlement compensation. A WebmasterWorld thread has following comments:
"Got my $6.45 wohhooo! headed to McDonalds for a Big Mac on google.
After spending $480,000 over 3 1/2 years I see a $280 credit in my account for Oct 20.
I've spent $188,000 this year alone, and my payout is only $30. This is a joke. I bet I've had
Google has announced the realease of Zend Google Data Client Library , which connects PHP5 to the Google Data APIs .
"The Google Data APIs provide a simple standard protocol and writing data on the web. For example, Google Base,
Calendar, Blogger, and CodeSearch each have a data API following the Google Data protocol.
Zend Google Data Client Library provides a PHP 5 component to execute queries and commands against Google Data APIs from your PHP applications."
According to Reuters Ask.com has signed a search deal with Lycos , for powering their search ads and search engine. Under the agreement Lycos Network will get image search, Web search, ppc ads and zoom search from Ask.com.
For the deal Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask.com said, “Ask.com has worked very hard to develop one of a kind search technology and search features that help users get the information they want more quickly.
You can now authenticate your Yahoo! store with Yahoo! Site Explorer. Addition of this feature was announced by Yahoo! Search Blog. Priyank Garg, product manager, Yahoo! Site Explorer said “Basically, that means you now you have the ability to add your Site Explorer key to your Small Business site.” Yahoo! Store Blog has listed three features of site explorer from which you can benefit. The features are: find which sub-pages within a URL are indexed by Yahoo!, find pages hat link to that site or any page (inlinks) and submit and track feeds for your sites.
Live Search Blog broke the news for the launch of Live Search Box by Microsoft. There are two boxes Basic and Advanced search boxes having different functions. Interesting part is that these boxes can be used on your website. Basic search box will redirect search results for a specified site by you or the web to Windows Live Search page. Box is in HTML version. Advanced box on the other hand will show results on your page by creating floating <div> tags.
Halloween, on 31st October was celebrated in style by various search engines. The four search engines Yahoo!, Google, Dogpile and Ask.com, had fancy and scary Halloween logos. Screen shots of their logos tell the whole story. Most interesting was that of Ask.com which changed its whole background for Halloween.
Revenues of Ask.com have increased by 62% . This came to the forefront after IAC disclosed their Q3 earning results in a report. Ask.com comes under IAC Search & Media. Sales in media and advertising department have increased to $135.5 million while operating loss was recorded at $2.1 million. Ask Jeeves Inc. search site was bought by IAC in 2005 for $1.96 billion. According to comScore Networks, Ask.com has 5.8% of market after Google Inc. which has 45% of market. Among the search engines Ask.com is ranked fourth. IAC is spending more money for making the site more popular.
According to a WebmasterWorld thread Microsoft's Live Web Search is listing blogspot blogs which have links to adult sites. Live Search is showing these blogspot blogs as search results for some famous debt keyword phrases. Search for debt consolidation displays five blogspot blogs among the top ten results. Other results redirect to other sites having links if they don't have direct links. This shows that Microsoft is unable to control the search engine spammers.
JotSpot, makers of Wiki application, has been bought by Google. It was announced by JotSpot site and Google Blog. For now the new registrations have been closed but new users can sign up in their waitlist and know about re-opening of registrations. Details about the deal have been discussed in Google FAQ . However, the financials of the deal are not being unveiled. For the deal Joe Kraus of JotSpot says on Google Blog"
Microsoft have launched a major ad campaign on 27th October for promoting Microsoft Live Search . An email regarding their ad campaign was received by a member of Search Engine Watch Forums sent by Microsoft. In the mail Microsoft official said, “I wanted to make you aware of the beginning of a phased marketing campaign to promote Microsoft Live Search. As mentioned, Microsoft has heavily invested in the development of our Live Search product and we’re launching various marketing campaigns to generate awareness and gain share over time.” People use Microsoft services such as mails and MSN channels but do not use Live Search that freely. Initially Microsoft is launching an introductory phase for spreading awareness about their Live Search. There will be direct response phase later aimed at encouraging people to use Live Search service to explore the new innovations and features of the service. Ad campaign are everywhere in newspapers like USA Today, New York Times, Wall St. Journal, and the local papers including online ads on MSN homepage, Hotmail, and Microsoft.com.
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