June 21, 2006
Yahoo employees only use their own search engine 68 percent of the time
Google-centric blogger Philipp Lenssen dug even deeper into the VisitorVille Intelligence data,
and posted the results on his blog. By Lenssen's count, Yahoo workers used their own engine 68.9
percent of the time, Google's 29.8 percent of the time. Lenssen matched Hitchcock's take on Google:
100 percent of Google workers stuck with their own technology.
June 20, 2006
SEMPO to produce new click fraud report
Hitwise analyzes search term trends across online categories including: shopping apparel &
accessories; entertainment television; and travel destinations & accommodations.
June 20, 2006
Another keyword trademark infringement lawsuit, this time against Yahoo
"Defendants' willful insertion of plaintiff's trademark into paid advertisements constitutes
an effort to artificially inflate their profits by knowingly misleading consumers as to the
source of the response to their search," the lawsuit said. "It has caused, and continues to
cause, actual confusion, is tarnishing the goodwill and reputation of plaintiff, and is causing
lost sales."
June 19, 2006
China presents a massive untapped market for Google
In India, mobile-phone ownership outweighs PC ownership by a ratio of two to one. And
there are five million more mobile-phone users coming online every month. By the end of this
year there will be more mobile phones in India than in America. Mr Nishar added that China also
presents a massive untapped market. In China there are 3.6 million mobile-phone users, but very
few homes have a PC.
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