Articles for the Topic: 'Search Engines'
Google Launches New Products
Google Inc. on 10 May 06, Wednesday has launched many new products in its ongoing duel with rivals Microsoft and Yahoo.
The company has added a new tool viz. Google Gadgets & Plug-ins to make it easier to share information through its online search engine and enabling users to download mini-applications, or “widgets,” designed to become fixtures on a computer screen.
‘Big Daddy’ – Google’s latest major overhaul of its algorithm
Many website owners have been baffled to realize that their websites having thousands of pages indexed in Google database for ages seems to have suddenly disappeared in last 2 months or so, with no trace – effectively erasing their entity from the web and causing untold business losses due to traffic lost.
Experts are indicating that Google’s search engine index, once a clean, lean but monstrous indexing machine, from a Webmaster’s perspective, has been really slipping badly lately.
Microsoft increases investment in advertising and search technology
Microsoft’s chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, in a speech last Thursday said that company is planning to boost its investments in MSN and other online ventures like windows-live initiatives to $1.6 billion next year in a bid to catch Google, which currently dominates the search market.
Capital spending and research outlays will rise 60 percent in the year that starts July 1 from a projected $1 billion this year, Ballmer indicated in his speech to many advertisers at the company’s headquarters here.
