July 2007

Social Search Engine Launches that Allows People around the World to Vote on Websites
(July 23, 2007 - Promotion World)

Four Houston entrepreneurs are launching a search engine today that they hope will challenge the likes of Google and Yahoo.

Microsoft Announces Enhanced Privacy Protections for Customers
(July 22, 2007 - Microsoft.com)

Expanding on its ongoing work to help protect customer privacy, Microsoft Corp. today announced an enhanced set of privacy principles for Live Search and online advertising data collection, use and protection.

Mister Wong Launches Social Bookmarking for iPhone
(July 22, 2007 - Mashable)

Mister Wong, the German-based social bookmarking service that’s trying to make a splash worldwide, has optimized its site for use on the iPhone. The service will officially launch next week.

Google Offers to Run Site Search Engines
(July 17, 2007 - New York Times)

Google Inc. is offering to run the search engines of small Web sites for as little as $100 per year, marking the company's latest attempt to make more money off technology that already steers much of the Internet's traffic.

comScore Releases June U.S. Search Engine Rankings
(July 16, 2007 - (CNN Money)

comScore released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines. In June 2007, Google Sites maintained its spot atop the rankings with 49.5 percent of the U.S. search market. Yahoo! Sites captured second place with 25.1 percent of U.S. searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (13.2 percent), Ask Network (5.0 percent) and Time Warner Network (4.2 percent).

Advertising Placements by Industry and Top Sponsored Links, June 2007
(July 13, 2007 - (Search Engine Watch)

The industry breakdown of ad placements and unit types and top 25 companies placing sponsored links. The data are provided by Nielsen//NetRatings.

Google Buys a Manager of E-Mail
(July 9, 2007 - New York Times)

Taking further aim at one of Microsoft’s core franchises, Google said Monday that it would acquire the e-mail security and management company Postini for $625 million in cash.

MSN AdCenter: New Click Quality Reports
(July 9, 2007 - The AdCenter blog)

The AdCenter blog has announced the addition of click quality reports. Microsoft reason that because all clicks do not necessarily carry the same value, adCenter now categorizes them as either standard quality or low quality.

Google Purchases Web Phone Service
(July 3, 2007 - New York Times)

Google said yesterday that it had bought GrandCentral Communications, acquiring a service that lets people use a single number for all their phones.

Feedburner Is Now Free
(July 5, 2007 - Feedburner)

Feedburner, recently purchased by Google, have made their previously paid-for statistics service - Feedburner Pro, free.

Latest Yahoo Tech Offers More Targeted Display Ads
(July 2, 2007 - InternetNews.com)

Yahoo announced a new ad delivery platform it says will help marketers better match consumers with the goods and services they're most interested in. The Internet giant said its patent-pending Yahoo SmartAds is powered by leading behavioral, demographic and geographic targeting capabilities.

China's Netease launches in-house search engine
(July 2, 2007 - signonsandiego.com)

China's top online gaming company, Netease.com Inc., has launched a search engine developed in-house, joining other online firms in developing online content as their core businesses mature.