Googles Ready to Chat About IM

For quite a while, many have speculated about Google getting into the instant messaging business. The New York Times ran an article focusing on Google's new stock offering and mentioned deep into the story, Google's launch of a "communications platform" on Wednesday.

Amazon Adds Shutterfly Photo Services

The folks out at Amazon added Shutterfly photo services to the world's largest online retailer's list of services. The new service will allow Amazon users to order a wide variety of custom image based products to their basket.

A Look At AdWords Conversions Versus Yahoo’s

While all in-depth analyses should use a number of sources to present a point, it's also beneficial to see how a respected member of the SEM community is fairing when using both advertising services.

NCSA Calls a Do-Over On Yahoo! Google Comparison

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) found itself cleaning up after a pair of Illinois college students after they published (loudly) their dispute of how big Yahoo! total index was. It is unknown whether they were slapped or not.

Windows of Opportunity For Google

Google has launched version 2.0 of Google Desktop, the free software that lets you do a load of things from your PC in addition to searching for files.