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Ask Jeeves announces research center in Italy.

Ask Jeeves, Inc. (NASDAQ: IACI) , a leading provider of information retrieval technologies, brands and Internet advertising services, formally announced the opening of its research center in Pisa, Italy. The research center will serve as Ask Jeeves' European hub for search technology research and development, working directly with the company's U.S.-based research centers in Campbell, Calif. and Piscataway, N.J.

PayPal prepares for a challenge from Google

"For the last nine months, Google has recruited online retailers to test GBuy, according to one person briefed on the service. GBuy will feature an icon posted alongside the paid-search ads of merchants, which Google hopes will tempt consumers to click on the ads, says this person. GBuy will also let consumers store their credit-card information on Google."

Rumours mount over Google's internet plan

"Google is working on a project to create its own global internet protocol (IP) network, a private alternative to the internet controlled by the search giant, according to sources who are in commercial negotiation with the company."

Ramping up on international web spam

"This week [Google's] webspam team continued ramping up our anti-spam efforts by removing bmw.de from our index, and ricoh.de will be removed soon for similar reasons."

Google merges Gmail with chat

"Google [...] was set to launch Gmail Chat, which will let users send instant messages with one click from their e-mail account, see when contacts are online and save the chat history like an e-mail message."

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Kanoodle to provide sponsored links on MSN

"[Kanoodle] today announced the signing of a distribution agreement with MSN. Under the terms of the arrangement, Kanoodle will provide its content targeted sponsored links to MSN Spaces."

Google comes up with search engine for China

"Internet giant Google introduced its China-based search engine last week. [...] 'In order to operate from China, we have removed some content from the search results available on Google.cn, in response to local law, regulation or policy,' says Google senior policy counsel Andrew McLaughlin. However, he admits that removing search results is contradictory to Google's mission."

Google upgrades toolbar

"Google upgraded its toolbar software for Microsoft Internet Explorer on Monday, adding features that suggest ways to finish a query before the user is finished typing, along with custom buttons that allow users to save favorite web sites to the toolbar that runs near the top of the browser window."

Ask Jeeves launches Ask Deutschland

"We are delighted to announce the beta of Ask Deutschland and now offer our unique search features to German Internet users."

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Study suggests search engine advertisers waste time, money

"Many online advertisers are overpaying to have links to their business on search engines like Google and Yahoo, according to a study. [...] Researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Business say the auction system used for placement of the ads result in some users overpaying and others wasting time trying to figure out how to beat the system."

Google News is out of beta

"Google Inc. on Monday said has taken its online news service out of beta, and has added a feature that automatically recommends stories to subscribers of its personalized search offering."

Google moves into radio

"Google pitched their fork into the radio advertising market yesterday by agreeing to pay up to $1.2bn for a digital platform that will schedule and implement radio advertising airtime."

Google stands up to US government porn probe

"US Federal prosecutors preparing to defend a controversial Internet pornography law in court have asked Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and America Online to hand over millions of search records -- a request that Google is adamantly denying. An attorney for the ACLU said Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL received identical subpoenas and chose to comply with them rather than fight the request in court."

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Microsoft raises stakes in paid-search game

"Microsoft's investment in adLab will raise the bar in click-advertising technology by providing advertisers with richer data about users -- such as the gender or likely age of the Internet consumer."

Canada.com, Google team up

"The multi-year partnership will provide Canada.com users with content and search-related advertising, while offering Google's advertisers access to Canada.com's extensive reach across the country."

Google unveils personalised homepage

"Google has launched a personalised homepage for mobile users, which gives them the opportunity to view on one screen, the information they often access through their Google homepage."

European tech giants craft new search engine

"Quaero is billed as Europe's answer to Google, but it has a lot to live up to. [...] So far Quaero is just a scattering of top tech minds in labs across France and Germany, working on what they hope will be the world's most advanced multimedia search engine."

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft keynote at CES

"Yahoo Inc. says it will release software to give people access to its e-mail, map guides and other services from TVs and mobile phones.

The world's most-visited Web property and its chief rival, Google Inc., may not make computers or DVDs, but they want to be an integral part of how people use their devices in the rapidly emerging age of digital, portable media."

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Yahoo! Local, YellowPages.com partner

"Advertisers on YellowPages.com will soon have their listings distributed on Yahoo! Local and Yellow Pages, the two companies are expected to announce today."

Yahoo's toolbar beats Google's

"Google Inc. leads in online search, but its Web browser toolbar fell to second place in November to Yahoo Inc.'s plug in. [...] Yahoo sites received 48.5 percent of toolbar searches, edging out Google's 46.4 percent."

Google opens online video store

"Google is to start selling video online, offering a way for people to search for and buy TV shows and more through its site. [...]

US network CBS is making shows like CSI and Star Trek available to buy online."

Sun-Times nets Google ad deal

"In a quiet and small-scale experiment, Google is running classified-like ads in the pages of the Sun-Times, which so far is the only newspaper participating in the Web-search behemoth's test. [...]

A Google spokesman declines to comment on Google's satisfaction with the test; the ads debuted on Dec. 9, and only 15 boxes have run so far."

Official Google statement: How does Google collect and rank results?

Google recently released an official explanation of how they rank results in their newsletter for librarians. In this document, Google engineer Matt Cutts explains how Google decides what result goes at the top of the list.

Google increases lead over Yahoo in search

"Google nabbed almost 40 percent of all searches in the U.S., a commanding lead of more than 10 percentage points over Yahoo, which took second place, comScore said on Friday. [...]

Overall, U.S. residents conducted 5.15 billion searches in November, up 9 percent. Google's search sites processed 2.05 billion of those searches, or 39.8 percent, followed by Yahoo sites with 1.52 billion, or 29.5 percent."

New York tech firm to sue Google

"A small New York technology firm said on Sunday that it was suing search titan Google for up to $5 billion dollars for patent violation in the Internet telephony software used in Google Talk."

Google adds new links feature to Gmail

"Gmail users can customize their mail service by displaying links to news articles and blog entries. The items show up along the top of the Gmail screen and the source and a link to the page are displayed."

Google to develop a cut-price PC

"According to the LA Times, Google has been chatting to Wal-Mart and other retailers, to peddle a Google PC. [...] Apparently the machine will not run Windows, but will have its own operating system created by Google and will retail for a couple of hundred dollars."

Ask launches new search tool

"Ask Jeeves UK has launched several new Smart Answer units, providing direct responses to popular reference-based searches. Geography, planets, the periodic table, dog breeds and famous quotes are some of the new categories, giving users the most relevant information straight to the top of the page."

Yahoo revamps search ad plans

"[Yahoo] executives are launching an aggressive assault to regain some ground lost to search leader Google in an area they had once pioneered."

Google begins agency outreach, recruits traditional media buyers

"When Google takes on the print industry, which they are starting to do, it's going to be huge, [...] They're expanding that to every medium. When they become the search engine for everything the lines really cross over."

U.S. online shoppers spent $25 billion in one week, says study

"Holiday shoppers in the United States had spent $25 billion online during one week ending 16 December and electronics and clothing items were their favourites. This represents a 25 per cent increase over the same period in 2004."

Google doesn't top portal/net services lists

"Yahoo! is most visited search engine for the week ending December 11, but AOL's Instant Messenger gets more action than Yahoo! Mail."