Bits and Bytes for June 4, 2004 news
WhenU Exploring Possible Sale Investment
Adware firm WhenU has hired the Perseus Group investment bankers to explore various possibilities to take its business to the next level according to a company spokesperson
While the hiring of investment bankers often signals a companys failure to gain traction a WhenU spokesperson its decision was motivated by tremendous recent interest as a result of Clarias S1 filing and the general market interest in outofbrowser desktop strategies Potential investors and several public companies interested in a strategic dialogue have recently approached the company...
Can't stop the pop-ups news
In January Paul Haigh downloaded Googles toolbar to dispel annoying popup ads By March they were back
Googles popup blocker included as part of the Web search engines popular browser plugin worked fantastically well for about two months blocking everything said Mr Haigh a photographer from the United Kingdom Then the odd popup started to appear mainly on highly addisplaying sites based in the United States
I know they are on the increase because they are annoying me again he said adding that hes received three this week...
Personal Tech news
Apples and Microsofts Digital Music Ploys
Blane Warrene
Apples recent release of the iTunes Software Development Kit for Windows and Microsofts release of Windows Media Player 10 beta are the latest salvo in the war going on in the digital music industry Apples enables Windows developers to write code to control iTunes from other applications These tools require iTunes 45 or later and support several languages including C C and JavaScript...
Porn pulls more hits than searches news
Visits to the top three search engines which virtually dominate their sector accounted for 55 per cent of all internet visits by users during the week ending 29 May said Hitwise a Californiabased company that tracks online activity
During that time Google garnered 27 per cent of all web visits while Yahoo Search and Search received 17 per cent and 11 per cent respectively Bill Tancer vice president of research at Hitwise told Reuters
Google which has become so popular that its name is synonymous with search is moving toward an initial public offering that is expected to be a blockbuster...
Neowin.net - Porn 3X more popular than searches news
Porn 3X more popular than searches
Posted by sEr on 05 Jun 21 comments
Online porn sites get about three times more visits than the top Web search engines including market leader Google Inc a research firm said Thursday
Web sites categorized as adult accounted for about 188 percent of all Internet visits by users in the week ending May 29 Meanwhile the category that contains search engines dominated by Yahoo and Google accounted for about 55 percent according to Hitwise Inc a Californiabased company that tracks Web use During that time Google garnered 2...