AOL: You've Got Content for Free
In this pulloutthestops strategy is betting the house on broadband content and using its programming acumen to differentiate itself from rivals Theres no return to the walled garden whatsoever says Jonathan F Miller This gives the company a chance to play it big
If the move pays off it paves the way for to catch up to the Broadband Age has foundered in recent years as subscribers fled in droves to cheaper and faster service In a departure from trying to add revenues through the flagship subscription service the company will now seek to bolster its audience across all its Web sites from aol...
Google Unveils Sitemaps Tool
Google unveiled a new program today which would provide Web site owners and marketers more control over when and how their pages are indexed by the search engines crawlers
Were undertaking an experiment called Google Sitemaps that will either fail miserably or succeed beyond our wildest dreams in making the Web better for Webmasters and users alike said Shiva Shivakumar engineering director at Google in a post on Googles blog
The Sitemaps program aims to optimize Googles crawling activities leading to better search results and to give site owners more input into how their sites are crawled...
InternetWeek | Number Of Firefox Site Visitors More Than Doubles
The number of people visiting the Mozilla Foundation website where they can download the Firefox browser has more than doubled over the last nine months a research firm said Wednesday
In March more than 26 million people visited the Firefox site a 237 percent spike over June of when the site met the minimum reporting levels Nielsen47Netratings said
Males who are often early adopters of technology and gadgets accounted for 71 percent or 19 million site visitors compared to women who comprised the remainder
Firefox which according to Mozilla has been downloaded more than 44 million times since its version 1...
InternetWeek | Earthlink Launches Personalized Portal For Non-Subscribers
Earthlink Inc on Wednesday launched a personalized portal for nonsubscribers that the Internet service provider hopes will attract customers to its highspeed service
The Atlantabased companys customizable MyEarthlink is a personal start page thats meant as a launching point to the Internet The portal includes personalized news entertainment sports stock quotes and other content company officials said
The decision to open up its subscriptiononly product to nonsubscribers was based on a strategy to attract more potential customers to Earthlinks broadband service...
Globetechnology: Why players are game
The end of the search Search engines are finished says Chris Sherman associate editor at Search Engine Watch At least the Googlestyle of search engine which is trying to satisfy all comers
The answer he says is specialty search engines
Youve probably noticed that Google earch Yahoo and a few other oldtimers have been quietly slipping in some new features Google Maps for instance s Near Me for local information and Yahoos FareChase travel packages
There are also new kids on the block Answerscom a kind of online dictionary and Becomecom for shopping...