E-Commerce News: Search

Yahoo, McAfee Team to Guide Searchers Through Web Minefield

Tuesday - May 6, 2008

Yahoo is working with Web security technology specialist McAfee to alert users about potentially risky Web sites. The companies launched the beta version of the SearchScan service on Tuesday. Now, Yahoo users will see red exclamation points and warnings next to search results McAfee has identified as offering potentially dangerous downloads, unsolicited e-mails or browser exploits. The service will help users to mitigate their worries about inadvertently clicking on sites that can infect or damage systems, the companies said. [More...]

QuestKeys: A Workaround for the Long URL Tangle

Tuesday - May 6, 2008

Daniel Allen sees a problem faced by Web surfers: How to share long URLs with others and quickly locate favorite Web pages or documents without wading through lists of browser bookmarks? Allen and his wife, Mary Jane, are both self-taught programmers, among other professions. Their answer to the above problem is QuestKeys. [More...]

The Real Threat to Google

Saturday - May 3, 2008

Google's biggest threat may not be Microsoft or Yahoo. No, one of the most formidable challenges facing Google is likely sitting in your pocket or purse. It's your cell phone, and it will put added pressure on Google and other Internet companies to revamp the way they handle online marketing. [More...]

eBay, Craigslist Soap Opera Unfolds

Friday - May 2, 2008

eBay's strange legal dispute with Craigslist just got weirder. The auction giant has disclosed the details of its lawsuit against the king of online classifieds, and here's what the dispute boils down to: eBay took a stake in Craigslist, agreeing to certain conditions regarding competitive behavior. [More...]

New Google Tech Could Make Image Searches Smarter

Monday - April 28, 2008

Search online for a particular type of image today, and the results will reflect more or less exclusively the text that's associated with them. A new technology presented by two Google researchers last week, however, promises to use visual cues in the images themselves to rank their relevance. [More...]

Yahoo Gives Itself a Social Makeover

Friday - April 25, 2008

Yahoo wants to tie all its various services together so each user needs to log in just once to access and manage its services, and will be able to do so from one central site. To do this, it is rewiring its architecture from the inside out and opening up its platform to third-party developers, Yahoo chief technology officer Ari Balogh said at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. [More...]

Tools and Tricks for Information Junkies

Monday - April 21, 2008

I am an information junkie, and I suffer from information overload. There, I've said it! And even though sometimes it seems like a momentous task to wade through the virtually endless supply of information to find and view the information that I want without wasting hours each day, there is hope. [More...]

Google Flies High on Street With Whopper Quarter

Friday - April 18, 2008

Brushing aside concerns about a drop in paid click rates and sliding past estimates, Google posted results Thursday showing not only that it remains king of the online advertising space but that it can continue to grow sales and profits in uncertain economic times. Revenue at the search giant rose 42 percent year-over-year to $5.2 billion in the first quarter, while net income increased 8 percent to $1.31 billion. [More...]

Yahoo Pulls Together Rebel Alliance

Thursday - April 10, 2008

Yahoo has launched a limited test of Google's AdSense search advertising service, a move that Microsoft immediately slammed as anticompetitive and one that came amid a flurry of new developments in the Microsoft-Yahoo saga. The test covers no more than 3 percent of the search queries generated from its own Web properties in the United States online and will last up two weeks. [More...]

EC Group Could Spur Search Privacy Sea Change

Tuesday - April 8, 2008

An Opinion issued by an influential EC working group could have a major impact on the way search engines do business. The group's recommendations include discarding personal search data after six months, giving consumers the right to see data that search engines have collected about them, and making Internet protocol addresses personally identifiable information. [More...]

Yahoo to Mobile Searchers: Talk to the Handset

Thursday - April 3, 2008

Yahoo has launched its next-generation mobile search service and also appears determined to get a jump on competitors by making it readily available to third-party developers. Yahoo's oneSearch 2.0 will deliver a number of improvements that will allow users to perform quicker, more comprehensive searches through text and voice-based activation. [More...]

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