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In time for the hotly anticipated worldwide release of the movie “The Da Vinci Code”, based on Dan Brown’s best-selling novel, Google is indulging in a little cross-promotion.
If you perform a search for any keyword in the U.S., the U.K. or Australia and scroll down to the very bottom of the search results page, you’ll see a link saying “New! Crack the Code: Play the Da…
Microsoft recently launched its new Windows Live Shopping website designed to compliment its existing MSN shopping portal. Whilst the MSN portal will remain the core Microsoft shopping real estate in the short term, Windows Live Shopping is surely a sign of things to come.
With all the hype that has engulfed the online shopping portal arena with the emergence of Google Base and the ongoing sagas of eBay,…
Is it a sign of the times? Assumptions this early might be hasty, but the alarm bells are surely ringing down at the Googleplex. Amazon’s A9 search and Alexa, both highly recognized and trafficked online services, have dumped Google for their search results.
To add salt to the wounds, Google has been replaced by its arch nemesis Microsoft, aka Windows Live Search. This surely has Bill Gates smiling…

Yahoo! has revived AltaVista’s Babel Fish, the translation service that’s been around since the dawn of search engines (or so it seems), by integrating it into Yahoo! Search.
Since last week, the new and improved Babel Fish is available at http://babelfish.yahoo.com. The translation service now lets you:
We sometimes tend to forget that there’s a whole huge non-English speaking world out there. So where can you go if you’d like to create non-English website content that is optimized for relevant keywords?
$3.6 billion was spent in the fourth quarter alone, exceeding year-on-year figures by nearly 34 percent ($9.6 billion). Internet advertising as a…

It’s always exciting when you un-cover some secret pages or unreleased sections on the internet, and even more so when they belong to Google. After visiting Threadwatch last week, I discovered a bunch of unseen parts/pages to the Google puzzle thanks to Chris (aka Expertu).
While the use and purpose of some of these pages is still unclear, feel free to explore some of Google’s undiscovered sections…

The U.K. based publications “The Times” and “Financial Times” have reported that eBay has been in talks with all three of the major search engines - Google, Yahoo! and MSN - about a closer relationship that could ultimately lead to an equity investment of one of the search engine companies in eBay.
At the core of the talks lies eBay’s untapped advertising potential. Currently, eBay does not display any…

The search engine titans are at war again, but this time the battlefield is not about the quality of their results or the size of their databases, but rather, free storage space for their users.
We reported recently on Google’s plans with GDrive, which in its simplest form is a virtual hard drive with unlimited storage space for users, hosted on Google servers. Now Microsoft has entered…

At a recent lunch during the PubCon search engine marketing conference, unofficial Google spokesman Matt Cutts confirmed that there are two types Google spiders crawling the Web looking for indexable content for Google’s search index.
Firstly, there’s GoogleBot, the Google spider everyone knows about. Secondly, there’s MediaBot - the spider connected to Google’s AdSense program. There have long been rumours that having Google AdSense ads on your…