Google's Real Rivals: Yahoo, MSN, And Amazon
Google has an almost insurmountable lead over search engine rivals but will face its stiffest competition from portals like Yahoo and and megaonline retailers such as Amazoncom according to a new customer satisfaction study of ebusiness Web sites released Tuesday
Google retains its status as the industry leader not surprising for a site that has entered the lexicon as a verb said Larry Freed the chief executive officer of ForeSee Results a sponsor of the American Customer Satisfaction Index a quarterly measurement produced by the University of Michigan...
Google's Chinese Wall
Shortly after the Sept 9 launch of Googles
site for searching Chinese news outlets it was revealed that the search kingpin is voluntarily excluding several sites banned by Chinas Internet censors However Google makes these same news sources available to viewers who access its Chinese news site from beyond Chinas borders Such selfcensorship stands in stark contrast to the Google of two years ago When the Chinese government briefly banned Googles search service in late it refused to alter results bolstering the search engines reputation for integrity...
Search Engine Wars: After the Smoke Clears Who's Still Standing?
Lets review the list to see whos still standing whos charging and who isnt
1 Yahoo httptinyurlcom474uwpt
With over a million listings Yahoo is considered the largest search engine47directory online today Yahoos search index is a combination of sites crawled from the entire Web and from Yahoos own hand built directory Its possible to be listed in their search results and not in their paid directory To view just the listings in Yahoos directory go to httpdiryahoocom47
To be listed in the directory all commercial sites must pay a fee to submit to Yahoo Express per year Adult sites must pay 600...