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Internet Marketing Success Spurs E-Learning
Internet marketing has become an increasingly successful industry, as demonstrated by Google's purchase of YouTube for $1.65 billion. In fact, experts are forecasting the online marketing industry to be worth $54 million globally by 2010... Continue

Internet Marketing Booming in 2006
2006 was a good year for Internet marketing. In a recent survey in The Economist, it was found that more than 70% of marketing executives worldwide believe the Internet will be the main consideration in planning and implementing major marketing campaigns by 2008. Continue

The Elite Retreat
It's being called the Elite Retreat, but what exactly is it? It's a two-day conference taking place from December 18 th to the 19 th in San Antonio, Texas. The event is open to a maximum of thirty people who get face time with the elite of Internet marketing, including Jeremy Schoemaker of Shoemoney.com, Lee Dodd of forumtrends.com, Dave Taylor of intuitive.com and Aaron Wall of Seobook.com. Continue

Google To Take On eBay
A new service is currently being tested by search giant Google that would put them in competition with eBay. The new service, known as ‘Google Base', would allow users to post any type of content and make it searchable... Continue

Internet Users Less Trusting
A recent study conducted by Consumer Reports WebWatch has found that Internet users have become less trusting. With the rising amount of identity theft, people appear to be increasingly afraid of victimization via high-tech means... Continue

Studies Find Rise In Internet Use And Related Fears
Recent reports have found that computer and Internet use are up, but so are related concerns regarding identity theft and other potential dangers. A recent report released by the Census Bureau, which was based on data collected from a 2003 population survey... Continue

Microsoft To Offer Online Book Search
Microsoft has announced their plans to offer online searches of books and other writings. The software giant plans to take a different approach than rival Google, whose attempt to index millions of copyright books from the Harvard, Stanford and Michigan university libraries has resulted in legal issues... Continue

Latest Google/Microsoft Suit Stayed
The latest move in the Google/Microsoft legal battle involves a stay by Judge Ronald M. Whyte regarding Google's countersuit against Microsoft... Continue

100 Million Firefox Downloads And Counting
Firefox has been touted by supporters as a more secure, innovative and feature-rich browser than Microsoft's Internet Explorer. It is the first real competitor of note for IE, chipping away at... Continue

Yahoo Sued For Unfair Competition, Theft Of Trade Secrets
Yahoo is being sued for unfair competition and theft of trade secrets by Nuance Communications. Nuance, a Menlo Park maker of speech-recognition software, is claiming that... Continue

Google and Sun Join For Office Software Pact
Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have agreed to a multi-year pact allowing Google to distribute Sun's software technologies. This is a big step for Google as the software provides a potential alternative to Microsoft's software, challenging the company's dominance in... Continue

Google To Build One Million Square-Foot Campus At NASA Ames Research Center
The deal between Google and NASA includes plans to cooperate on research projects. These projects include large-scale data management, nanotechnology, and the entrepreneurial space industry. It also includes a project known as massively distributed computing, which aims to... Continue

Vivisimo And MSN Win FirstGov Contract
Vivisimo is known for the creation of innovative software which accesses and collects the world's information in order to provide better search and discovery. They will be providing enhanced search results for the FirstGov Web portal, which will include new user features like government news and image search. The contract teams Vivisimo with Microsoft's MSN Search service. MSN Search will provide extensive coverage of government documents as well as filtering-related operators. Continue

Remove Results Feature Being Tested By Google
A new feature is being tested by Google which allows users to remove unwanted results from their personalized search results. This feature is currently only available to a small percentage of
people. Continue

Internet Reaches More Consumers
If ever there were evidence to support an increase in Internet advertising budgets, the latest Forrester report is it. In a survey involving 5,000 U.S. and Canadian respondents, Forrester found that consumers are spending more time on the Internet compared to most other forms of traditional media. Continue

Believe it or not, Google still has room to expand. Google recently announced plans for their new ‘Google Talk’, an instant messaging and web-based voice communication program. This is an already teeming market which includes the likes... Continue

ComScore Declares Big Six Still Dominating In Search
According to a report by comScore Media Metrix on Friday, the six big search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask Jeeves, and InfoSpace) are still dominating the search market despite the appearance of several niche search engines... Continue

Yahoo! Adds Local Search Service
Yahoo! released a test of their new local search service which allows users to find local, neighborhood information on the Web. This is the latest in an intense rivalry among search providers... Continue

Digital Library Program Suspended By Google
Google has announced their decision to temporarily suspend their program to build a digital library. The Google Print Library Project is an effort to make digital copies of the contents of three university libraries searchable for Internet users. Continue

Yahoo Brags Over Larger Search Engine Index
This week, Yahoo announced that its search engine index, which includes over 20 billion items, is far larger overall than Google’s. Continue

The Next Five Year: Online Advertising to Increase Significantly
Advertising and marketing online is poised to increase substantially, in all of the core areas: search engine marketing, online ad displays, and clasified ads, according to Jupiter Research. Continue

New Advertising Network Launched by Ask Jeeves
With backing from a new owner known for shaking things up, Ask Jeeves Inc. is launching a new advertising network powered by their own search engine and set to debut on Monday. The move is sure to rile Google Inc., their longtime business partner, as the marketing system is in keeping with the very profitable model used by Google as well as Yahoo Inc.
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Law Suit Over Page Access Filed Against Internet Archive
The Internet Archive has been hit with a copyright infringement law suit for crawling the Internet and copying web pages from Healthcare Advocates without permission. Though Healthcare Advocates has utilized a robots.txt file, they claim that its pages have still been accessed on 92 occasions... Click here to read fully story

Release of New Web Index Announced by Yahoo Weatherman Tim Mayer
Yahoo Search released a new web index, as reported by Yahoo Weatherman Tim Mayer. Changes are expected to continue over the coming one to two weeks, and they are expected to be somewhat more intense than the second weather report.

Launch of MSN Shopping
Online comparison shopping leader Shopping.com and MSN have teamed up, meaning that millions of products from thousands of online merchants will now be accessible to MSN Shopping users... Click here to read full story

Library Scanning Project Discussed in Meeting Between AAP and Google
A meeting was held on July 1 st between officials from The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google to discuss Google's book scanning project and concerns about copyright issues... Click here to read full story

Despite Search Growth For AOL & ASK, They're Still Not Playing In The Majors
According to new data from Nielsen//NetRatings, the number of searches handled by AOL and Ask Jeeves showed double-digit growth. However, they're still not competing with the major players... Click here to read full story

June 2005 Shows 3% Increase in Search Ad Prices
According to the most recent Keyword Price Index from Fathom Online, last month showed a 3% increase in the average price for search ads... Click here to read fully story

Working Toward a Solution for Hijacking & Redirects
Just what are redirects? Redirects were a great solution for constantly changing URLs. URLs change for a number of reasons - people getting new domain names or changing their websites - but the problem is that your site can't be found when a person or search engine looks in that old location. Click here to read full story

	Plastic Surgery Marketing News Internet Marketing Success Spurs E-Learning Internet marketing has become an increasingly successful industry, as demonstrated by Google's purchase of YouTube for $1.65 billion. In fact, experts are forecasting the online marketing industry to be worth $54 million globally by 2010... Continue Internet Marketing Booming in 2006 2006 was a good year for Internet marketing. In a recent survey in The Economist, it was found that more than 70% of marketing executives worldwide believe the Internet will be the main consideration in planning and implementing major marketing campaigns by 2008. Continue The Elite Retreat It's being called the Elite Retreat, but what exactly is it? It's a two-day conference taking place from December 18 th to the 19 th in San Antonio, Texas. The event is open to a maximum of thirty people who get face time with the elite of Internet marketing, including Jeremy Schoemaker of Shoemoney.com, Lee Dodd of forumtrends.com, Dave Taylor of intuitive.com and Aaron Wall of Seobook.com. Continue Google To Take On eBay A new service is currently being tested by search giant Google that would put them in competition with eBay. The new service, known as ‘Google Base', would allow users to post any type of content and make it searchable... Continue Internet Users Less Trusting A recent study conducted by Consumer Reports WebWatch has found that Internet users have become less trusting. With the rising amount of identity theft, people appear to be increasingly afraid of victimization via high-tech means... Continue Studies Find Rise In Internet Use And Related Fears Recent reports have found that computer and Internet use are up, but so are related concerns regarding identity theft and other potential dangers. A recent report released by the Census Bureau, which was based on data collected from a 2003 population survey... Continue Microsoft To Offer Online Book Search Microsoft has announced their plans to offer online searches of books and other writings. The software giant plans to take a different approach than rival Google, whose attempt to index millions of copyright books from the Harvard, Stanford and Michigan university libraries has resulted in legal issues... Continue Latest Google/Microsoft Suit Stayed The latest move in the Google/Microsoft legal battle involves a stay by Judge Ronald M. Whyte regarding Google's countersuit against Microsoft... Continue 100 Million Firefox Downloads And Counting Firefox has been touted by supporters as a more secure, innovative and feature-rich browser than Microsoft's Internet Explorer. It is the first real competitor of note for IE, chipping away at... Continue Yahoo Sued For Unfair Competition, Theft Of Trade Secrets Yahoo is being sued for unfair competition and theft of trade secrets by Nuance Communications. Nuance, a Menlo Park maker of speech-recognition software, is claiming that... Continue Google and Sun Join For Office Software Pact Google Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have agreed to a multi-year pact allowing Google to distribute Sun's software technologies. This is a big step for Google as the software provides a potential alternative to Microsoft's software, challenging the company's dominance in... Continue Google To Build One Million Square-Foot Campus At NASA Ames Research Center The deal between Google and NASA includes plans to cooperate on research projects. These projects include large-scale data management, nanotechnology, and the entrepreneurial space industry. It also includes a project known as massively distributed computing, which aims to... Continue Vivisimo And MSN Win FirstGov Contract Vivisimo is known for the creation of innovative software which accesses and collects the world's information in order to provide better search and discovery. They will be providing enhanced search results for the FirstGov Web portal, which will include new user features like government news and image search. The contract teams Vivisimo with Microsoft's MSN Search service. MSN Search will provide extensive coverage of government documents as well as filtering-related operators. Continue Remove Results Feature Being Tested By Google A new feature is being tested by Google which allows users to remove unwanted results from their personalized search results. This feature is currently only available to a small percentage of people. Continue Internet Reaches More Consumers If ever there were evidence to support an increase in Internet advertising budgets, the latest Forrester report is it. In a survey involving 5,000 U.S. and Canadian respondents, Forrester found that consumers are spending more time on the Internet compared to most other forms of traditional media. Continue Believe it or not, Google still has room to expand. Google recently announced plans for their new ‘Google Talk’, an instant messaging and web-based voice communication program. This is an already teeming market which includes the likes... Continue ComScore Declares Big Six Still Dominating In Search According to a report by comScore Media Metrix on Friday, the six big search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask Jeeves, and InfoSpace) are still dominating the search market despite the appearance of several niche search engines... Continue Yahoo! Adds Local Search Service Yahoo! released a test of their new local search service which allows users to find local, neighborhood information on the Web. This is the latest in an intense rivalry among search providers... Continue Digital Library Program Suspended By Google Google has announced their decision to temporarily suspend their program to build a digital library. The Google Print Library Project is an effort to make digital copies of the contents of three university libraries searchable for Internet users. Continue Yahoo Brags Over Larger Search Engine Index This week, Yahoo announced that its search engine index, which includes over 20 billion items, is far larger overall than Google’s. Continue The Next Five Year: Online Advertising to Increase Significantly Advertising and marketing online is poised to increase substantially, in all of the core areas: search engine marketing, online ad displays, and clasified ads, according to Jupiter Research. Continue New Advertising Network Launched by Ask Jeeves With backing from a new owner known for shaking things up, Ask Jeeves Inc. is launching a new advertising network powered by their own search engine and set to debut on Monday. The move is sure to rile Google Inc., their longtime business partner, as the marketing system is in keeping with the very profitable model used by Google as well as Yahoo Inc. Click here to read full story Law Suit Over Page Access Filed Against Internet Archive The Internet Archive has been hit with a copyright infringement law suit for crawling the Internet and copying web pages from Healthcare Advocates without permission. Though Healthcare Advocates has utilized a robots.txt file, they claim that its pages have still been accessed on 92 occasions... Click here to read fully story Release of New Web Index Announced by Yahoo Weatherman Tim Mayer Yahoo Search released a new web index, as reported by Yahoo Weatherman Tim Mayer. Changes are expected to continue over the coming one to two weeks, and they are expected to be somewhat more intense than the second weather report. Launch of MSN Shopping Online comparison shopping leader Shopping.com and MSN have teamed up, meaning that millions of products from thousands of online merchants will now be accessible to MSN Shopping users... Click here to read full story Library Scanning Project Discussed in Meeting Between AAP and Google A meeting was held on July 1 st between officials from The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google to discuss Google's book scanning project and concerns about copyright issues... Click here to read full story Despite Search Growth For AOL & ASK, They're Still Not Playing In The Majors According to new data from Nielsen//NetRatings, the number of searches handled by AOL and Ask Jeeves showed double-digit growth. However, they're still not competing with the major players... Click here to read full story June 2005 Shows 3% Increase in Search Ad Prices According to the most recent Keyword Price Index from Fathom Online, last month showed a 3% increase in the average price for search ads... Click here to read fully story Working Toward a Solution for Hijacking & Redirects Just what are redirects? Redirects were a great solution for constantly changing URLs. URLs change for a number of reasons - people getting new domain names or changing their websites - but the problem is that your site can't be found when a person or search engine looks in that old location. Click here to read full story Home Internet Marketing News

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