The House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations, and the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, hosts Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Cisco in Washington, DC.
Google BearingPoint For Search Services
A partnership of Google and BearingPoint means corporate purchasers of Google’s hardware can contract for assistance installing and configuring Google for the enterprise.
Search Handled Five Billion December Queries
Search engines led by Google and Yahoo processed nearly 5.1 billion queries from users in December 2005, a huge jump from the 3.2 billion they delivered in December 2004.
Loyalty Programs for Search
A number of folks have commented on the survey that some Yahoo! Mail users received about search incentives.
Google Desktop Does Cross-PC Search
One new feature in the latest version of Google’s information-laden Desktop product will get a lot of attention from users in the wake of Google’s fight with the Department of Justice over user privacy and trade secrets.
Yahoo Considers Search Incentives
While Yahoo isn’t implementing Bill Gates suggestion that search engines should consider paying their users, Yahoo is thinking about giving some goodies to people who make Yahoo their primary search engine.
Book Search Praised From Lions Den
Google’s Book Search project got major kudos from University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman speaking from within “the lion’s den” also known as the Association of American Publishers (AAP). The AAP launched a lawsuit against Google in October 2005 alleging copyright infringement as a result of the search company’s massive book digitization project.
Zillow Resides In Home Valuation Search
The buyer and seller-focused site debuted recently and offers valuations and information on over 60 million homes in the US, and delivers a map view of a property queried on the site.
Search and Branding
There’s an excellent interview at iMediaConnection with Ron Belanger from Yahoo about the intersection of search marketing and branding.
Amazon Search Exec Googles New Job
A9 chief executive Udi Manber has ditched Amazon’s search engine subsidiary in favor of a position with Google as a vice president of engineering.