Matthew Hicks

NEW YORK—As concerns over click fraud increase, vendors are beginning to launch new services and technology to detect and combat the practice of inflating clicks in search-based advertising. This week at the Search Engine Strategies 2005 Conference & Expo here, exhibitors Clicklab LCC and Net Applications were among the companies releasing click-fraud services. They joined […]

NEW YORK—Web reviews are gaining more prominence in Google search results as the search engine builds them into its local results. As part of a launch of new Google Local features on Thursday, Google Inc. is tapping into Web reviews to provide a snapshot of the online ratings and comments about restaurants, shops and other […]

NEW YORK—The major search engines are looking beyond the Web to find, display and make money from search results. At the Search Engines Strategies 2005 Conference & Expo here this week, search-engine executives offered a peek into a future wherein general search will increasingly tap sources outside the Web and in which users will access […]

NEW YORK—Yahoo wants developers to know that its search engine welcomes them. The company on Tuesday is launching a comprehensive developers program for its search technology during the Search Engine Strategies 2005 Conference & Expo here. Called the Yahoo Search Developer Network, the program provides access to Yahoos Web search engine, its four vertical search […]

NEW YORK—On the eve of its 10-year birthday, Yahoo Inc. moved to make its brand synonymous with search advertising and laid out a future focused on personal media. Yahoo is dropping the Overture Services brand and renaming its search-based advertising services Yahoo Search Marketing Solutions, company co-founder Jerry Yang announced Tuesday during a keynote at […]

Web publishers wanting to make advertising revenue from their XML syndication feeds gained more options on Monday. Kanoodle Inc. and Moreover Technologies Inc. launched a joint effort to deliver advertising in RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. Kanoodle is providing the publisher tools for management and reporting of RSS ads, while Moreover is providing the feed […]

While Mozilla Firefox has slowed its growth pace, the open-source browser still is making enough inroads to knock Microsofts Internet Explorer below 90 percent user share for the first time in three years. Web browser user-share data released Monday show that Firefoxs rate of growth has dropped slightly since its Version 1.0 release. The browser […]

Web Crossing Inc. is opening its enterprise-class online collaboration tools to the masses. The company on Monday will announce its Site Crossing service that bundles together its suite of Web collaboration tools for use by small businesses, workgroups and individuals. Web Crossing already offers enterprises its tools, which include discussions, mailing lists, chat, Weblogs, calendars, […]

Responding to the rise of a spoofing flaw in Web browsers, Opera Software ASA has released a second beta release of its next browser with extra security features. The newest Opera beta, made available on Friday, prominently displays certificate information about Web sites and only supports Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) from domains that meet Operas […]

IBM is previewing its next mission in enterprise search—letting third parties develop industry applications on its search platform. By opening its corporate search technology to partners, IBM wants to turn enterprise search into more than a way to find documents, e-mails or data by keyword. It also wants search engines to extract meaning from unstructured […]