Source from www.silicon.com By Dan Ilett
Published: Monday 10 July 2006
eBay has blocked customers from using Google’s recently launched online payments service, Checkout.
The move could be seen as a protective measure over its own payment service PayPal but eBay has insisted it is because Google’s product does not meet the security and safety standard set in its payments policy.
Google has put street-level maps of all of New Zealand online, launching the local version of its popular advertising-based mapping service far earlier than some domestic competitors had anticipated.
Jon Ostler presents at the Facilitate Digital Conference
20 July 2006 – Sky City Convention Centre, AucklandJon Ostler, the founder of First Rate, will be presenting at this years Facilitate Digital Conference “Successful Online Advertising” on 20th July 2006 in Auckland.
The 2006 conference builds upon last year’s theme of the online media essentials. The theme aims to demonstrate how online advertising can offer superior ROI and should be an essential campaign media component within the practices of Advertising Agencies and Businesses. Content consists of facts and case studies from actual campaigns
Sourced from stuff.co.nz
02 May 2006
LOS ANGELES: Microsoft Corp scored an important win against rival Google Inc over the weekend, as Amazon.com began using its technology to power the Internet retailer’s A9 search unit.
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.
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.
sourced from computerworld.co.nz
by Sumner Lemon
21 February 2006
Google Desktop 3 beta poses a security risk to many companies and use of the software should be tightly controlled, says Gartner in a research note.