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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is leaning toward filing an antitrust suit that would challenge Google’s buyout of AdMob, reports Bloomberg. The news comes from three anonymous sources that are familiar with the issue. A five-member commission will decide whether to approve the deal or not. AdMob is a seller of advertisements for mobile platforms…. Read more »
Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., has resumed his verbal attacks against Google. Investors.com reports that Murdoch said he would be aiming to stop Google and other search engines from stealing stori
Retailers are getting big results from search engine marketing, indicates a recent report from Internet Retailer. According to the survey, internet retailers are spending more of their marketing budgets on search engine marketing. About a third of the 102 respondents spent more than 50 percent of their marketing budgets on search marketing in 2009. Many… Read more »
A judge has dismissed Rosetta Stone’s suit against Google, reports Reuters. The language software designer Rosetta Stone filed suit against against Google in 2009. Rosetta Stone claimed that software pirates were abusing search engine optimization (SEO) techniques to steal sales from Rosetta Stone. When the term "Rosetta Stone" is searched on Google, the first results… Read more »
Apple has purchased the mobile search and personal assistant tech firm Siri, reports PC Magazine. The buyout was confirmed by Norman Winarsky, the head of SRI’s venture and licensing program. Siri launched earlier this year and was recently named the most innovative company at Microsoft’s BizSpark conference. The company currently designs applications for the iPhone… Read more »
A new study conducted by Experian Hitwise indicates that term "Facebook" was the most popular organic search term in March. Experian’s study looked at the top organic search terms for Google, Bing, and Yahoo, the biggest search engines in the United States. "Facebook" was the number one search term, making up 1.17 to 2.60 percent… Read more »
The Chinese search engine provider Baidu announced that its Q1 2010 profits jumped 165 percent year-over-year.
Revenue and net income for the company was also up. Net income rose to $70.5 mil
A new update to Yahoo Search will allow users to search the menus of local restaurants for a specific food item they may be craving.
The third-party search engine OneRiot has begun organizing query results by the amount of Facebook "Likes" a page has, according to VentureBeat. OneRiot is a relatively new real-time search engine that collects links from a variety of social sources, ranging from Digg to Twitter. The results now take into account the social signal that Facbook… Read more »
A new study conducted by the AT Internet Institute claims that Bing is now the second most popular search engine in the UK, passing Yahoo.