Articles tagged with: decline
71% more Google Searches, Yahoo-Msn decline
Google (GOOG) accounted for 71.01% of all US searches in the four weeks ended August 28 - the most ever, and 11% more than its share in August 2007, Hitwise announced. Yahoo (YHOO) Search, MSN …
Online advertising slows as privacy issues are rising
It sounded like a winning proposition — free money — for Internet access providers.By tracking their subscribers’ personal Web surfing habits, they could help deliver ads targeted to the consumers’ interests, and claim a share …
Google + Yahoo = Antitrust?
The Justice Department’s antitrust division has begun issuing civil subpoenas as it probes further into whether a planned Google-Yahoo partnership in search advertising is anticompetitive, a person close to a company that received a subpoena …
ValueClick: Has the Hunted Become the Hunter?
It has long been assumed by many investors that acquiring Valueclick (VCLK) would be the first step in “plan B” for Microsoft (MSFT) if its bid to take over Yahoo (YHOO) was unsuccessful. When …
New e-mail snooping law outraged Swedes
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Swedes may cherish openness and transparency, but not enough to accept a new law giving the government the right to snoop on all e-mails and phone calls crossing the country’s borders. Outrage …
Hackers Hijack Critical Internet Organizations
Turkish hackers Thursday defaced the official sites of the international organizations that oversee the Internet’s critical routing infrastructure and regulate domain names, researchers said Friday.
A group calling itself “NetDevilz” claimed responsibility for the hack, which …
Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset
VentureBeat is reporting Microsoft is very close to buy the semantic search engine Powerset. The purchase price is rumored to be slightly more than $100 million. An announcement is expected next month. Powerset, of San …
Top Advertisers Shifted $1 Billion to the Web
The top 100 advertisers in the U.S., who represent 41 percent of total advertising spending, shifted about $1 billion last year from TV and newspapers to the Web. An analysis from Ad Age shows that …
