Surf the Net - on your cellphone
Even as more wireless devices offer email software and Internet service mobile search has remained a bitplayers game often provided in restricted form by cellphone carriers themselves
The billiondollar question is whether the sector will stay divided or be dominated by a single company
Out there on the web are fantastic services you might want mobile access to said Ms Jessica Figueras research director for wireless software at the Londonbased consultancy Ovum The problem is how to access them Anything built for the normal web is going to be pretty much not very usable...
Search engines on fire
Sensis should know The White and Yellow Pages group also runs City Search Whereis Trading Post Auto Trader and a real estate portal Just Listed Sensis has also acquired search engine outfit LookSmart That purchase included the search logs of Ninemsn and Yahoo
The internet is a child of the s but its early philosophy was more from the hippie generation of the s in that everything was free
It was not until quick userfriendly search engines came along in the mids that the net became more useful...
Report: Demand Exceeds Supply in Search Advertising
Yahoo
and stand to gain in the short run but suffer over the long term according to recent research conducted by Nielsen47NetRatings
As in nearly all markets the imbalance between supply and demand in search ads is expected to drive prices higher thereby slowing growth Consequently Nielsen47NetRatings analysts suggest that search firms be more creative providing additional outlets to advertisers
Spending Soars
We know that search advertising is the fastestgrowing component in the onlineadvertising world said Charles Buchwalter vice president
analytics
at Nielsen47NetRatings...
Google's privacy under scrutiny for IPO
47 Google Incs decision to go public will draw even more attention to what many see as inadequate privacy for the top Web search providers users watchdogs say
As a publicly traded company sixyearold Google would have to disclose more information about its operations and begin answering to shareholders which would make it harder to avoid controversies like the one that erupted when it introduced its Webbased email service last month...