Jeeves Retires
Sourced From SearchDay
By Chris Sherman
After nearly a decade of service, Jeeves is retiring from his duties at the search engine, which will assume the long used but little promoted name “Ask.”
Jeeves was the brainchild of venture capitalist Garrett Gruener and technologist David Warthen. From the start, Jeeves was different than the other search services of the day.
Google Introduces Web Page Creator
Sourced From SearchDay
By Chris Sherman
Want to create your own web page, but don’t know how to begin? The new Google Page Creator is a simple, free tool that allows you to publish to the web with ease.
Google Page Creator is a web based application that uses a basic what-you-see is what-you-get style of interface, designed to allow anyone to create and publish web pages, regardless of skill or knowledge level.
BMW Given Google ‘Death Penalty’
sourced from bbc.co.uk
6 February 2006
Search giant Google has “blacklisted” German car manufacturer BMW for breaching its guidelines. Investigations by Google found that BMW’s German website influenced search results to ensure top ranking when users searched for “used car.”
The Performance Network
During 2005 we encountered a lot of demand from advertisers, publishers and agencies for new ways to place, run and pay for online advertising campaigns. There was a lot of interest in “cost per click” (CPC), “cost per lead” (CPA) and “cost per sale” (CPS) models.
This demand has been stimulated by overseas trends that now sees these forms of ad payment set to out strip the more traditional CPM rate card. Of course much of the CPC market is being driven by Google, Yahoo and MSN Search.
Yahoo Personalizes Shopping, Adds Community Features
Sourced From SearchDay
By Chris Sherman
Continuing its efforts to tap into personal and collective knowledge in search, Yahoo has enhanced its shopping service with a number of useful features, debuting what it calls the “shoposphere.”
Yahoo Shopping’s shoposphere is a new form of social commerce where the Yahoo user community can get involved in commerce without having to worry about any infrastructure.
Google Says Farewell to Size Wars
Sourced From SearchDay
By Danny Sullivan
Google has dropped from its home page the famous count of pages in its index while simultaneously claiming it has the most comprehensive collection of web documents available to searchers.
Clicking For a Room – Online Travel & Accommodation Statistics in the US
Sourced From Emarketer
Published: October 31, 2005
A new J.D. Power and Associates survey shows continued growth for online travel booking.
The “2005 Independent Hotel Web Site Study” found that 41% of hotel reservations were booked online in 2005, up from 36% last year.
