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Web of Porn: The Business of Porn - Part 1
News But what we do know is that commercial sex Web sites are very popular and are very good at drawing people via search engines. Thanks to e-mail, anonymity and search engines, "adult" Web sites are booming.
[March 9, 1999, 15:43]
Pay-to-play search ignites trademark battle
News Pay-to-play marks just the latest legal wrinkle for search engines seeking to incorporate trademarked terms in their results -- a practice that for now stands squarely within a legal grey area. Many of the cases are settled before they ever reach...
[February 11, 2002, 12:02]
Spammer breaks into AOL search engine
News The battle has led to an arms race between spammers and search engines. Web spamming, a term used to describe how sites trump legitimate search results with their own pages, has been going on since the birth of search engines.
[June 20, 2002, 14:12]
Find it fast: desktop search programs review
Reviews But not all of these desktop search engines are alike. Like search engines that scour the Internet and produce results in seconds, these new hard drive versions can instantly pull up references to files based on keywords, file types or designated...
[March 23, 2005, 15:35]
Google sued by start-up over code
News Affinity Engines, which filed the lawsuit on 25 May in the Superior Court of California in Santa Clara, is seeking unspecified damages and royalties from Google. Affinity Engines chief executive Brian Samuels defended the filing of the suit, saying...
[July 1, 2004, 9:10]
MP3 site 'just a search engine'
News Therefore we believe this might be a test case for the music industry against search engines such as Yahoo.com.au, Anzwers and the like," said Bal. This has got nothing to do with search engines like Google.
[October 23, 2003, 13:10]
Google, Yahoo battle Argentina search-censorship
News In the US, federal law generally says that search engines are not responsible for the content of pages they index. In some cases, the restraining orders require the search engines to censor results for certain keywords or URLs.
[November 12, 2008, 8:19]
No date for IPO yet - Google
News Sullivan ticked off a slew of questions on the minds of attending Webmasters, rival search engines, advertisers and financial analysts, who regard Google and its possible initial public offering as a potential saviour of the Internet tech market.
[August 21, 2003, 10:25]
Google must search its soul
Leader Google already obeys the Robots Exclusion Protocol, which lets site maintainers specify which parts of their content should not be visited by search engines. True drama comes when saintliness and sin battle it out in one place.
[February 21, 2005, 14:25]
US Web snooping plan draws fire
News The Internet is expanding quickly, and scanning it manually with traditional search engines is tedious at best. The SEC won't disclose its red flags, but investigators now type such phrases as "get rich quick" and "free stock" into search engines...
[March 29, 2000, 9:12]
Researchers feed newspapers to computers
News Whether it is summarising news stories or using statistics to find out which Web pages are out there to fool search engines, MSN seems to be the most likely beneficiary of much of the Web-related research efforts.
[June 10, 2004, 11:10]
Jane Wakefield: Don't stop the music
News In the halls of SDMI the electronics manufacturers, the record labels and security firms continue to squabble like spoilt children over what format it can possibly make as popular as MP3 (after porn, MP3 is the most requested word on search...
[July 24, 2000, 12:57]
Riches snatched away at any time
Blog It’s a constant battle between Search Engine Optimisers (SEOs) paid to push web sites up the list, and the Engines. Assume almost any other source of online business that is not 100% under your control can be taken away at the snap of an Ethernet...
[December 30, 2008, 8:25]
Microsoft vs. Google: Who's greener?
News Being portals and search engines, the companies are likely among the worst energy users because of the cooling and energy their data centres need to operate. As Google and Microsoft battle for the hearts and minds of Internet users, a new question...
[June 6, 2006, 15:40]
Microsoft still in Massachusetts' sights
News Microsoft may be unlawfully wielding its desktop dominance to put the squeeze on search engines and on document formats like Adobe Acrobat, the state of Massachusetts claimed on Friday. This move comes as the battle for Web search dominance is...
[January 19, 2004, 10:50]
Net News: IE adds Yahoo! searching
News With Netscape venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins also heavily involved with the Excite engine, it seems that the Microsoft-Netscape battle could extend to search engines. In an attempt to make Web searching easier, Yahoo has become the default...
[August 14, 1996, 14:22]
Google protects its search results
News He said it's been a "huge issue" for the search engines because it takes up a lot of time and resources to keep "junk" out of their listings. Among the search engines that WebPosition Gold analyses include Yahoo!
[April 16, 2002, 14:47]
White House enters the Napster fray
News Other groups interested in the groundbreaking case -- which could affect services as common as search engines -- also have jumped into the debate with briefs questioning Patel's decision. The Napster battle comes as other fledgling digital music...
[September 11, 2000, 7:57]
Google searches for Euro success
News From the perspective of the advertiser, search engines are becoming increasingly important to target consumers because the general public filters advertising deliberately," said Damian Burns, digital account director with London-based Zenith...
[August 30, 2002, 11:53]
FTSE 100 losing the search battle
News Research by search marketing company The Search Works has found that 64 percent of FTSE 100 companies' Web sites don't rank in the first page of search results for keywords, which could see them losing the 90 percent of would-be buyers who never...
[February 22, 2005, 15:20]
