Media - Internet

Analysts said that search leader Google is quietly moving to add classified ads to its index. Google has been contacting publishers of Web-based classified advertising sites, requesting a direct feed of listings, according to Classified Intelligence, a research firm focused on the industry. Recruitment site CareerBuilder is in discussions with Google, analyst John Zappe wrote in a research note on...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. said late on Monday that it was tripling the number of Web pages that its system can search, seeking to upstage rival Yahoo Inc. in claims to be the world's widest Web search. But Google also said it would no longer publicize the number of Web pages available from any search -- calling a halt to what analysts say has become an increasingly meaningless size...

In the latest round of the search-index size contest, Google unveiled an updated index it said is more than three times larger than that of any of its search engine competitors. "We're celebrating our seventh birthday...We had a pretty strong year," Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in a phone interview with CNET News.com, as he listed the launch of new products including Google Talk...

Yahoo Inc. has hired a roster of popular authors to write financial columns for its Web site, marking one of the company's biggest moves into original content. The Internet company today will begin publishing columns about personal finance and investing by an array of writers, including such well-known names in the business press as Ben Stein, Robert Kiyosaki and Stephen Covey. The Sunnyvale...

Bangalore , Sept 25: YAHOO! India is eyeing rural India with its Emerging Market Initiative. Speaking to Business Line at his Bangalore office, Dr Prasad Ram, CTO, Yahoo! R&D India, said that `livelihood-based' offerings for the rural market would roll out by mid-2006. The Yahoo! R&D office here, designed as a microcosm of the one in the US was set up in last June. Since then, Indian engineers...

The proverbial 800lb gorilla, it was noted on the sidelines of last week’s Royal Television Society Convention in Cambridge, has recently bulked up. When discussing companies such as Google, a 1,500lb beast in the corner of the room is nowadays invoked. Was this, one television pundit asked, a case of "gorilla inflation"? Another industry is now asking whether the internet search and advertising...

Reporters Without Borders today published a Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents (in English, French, Chinese, Arabic and Persian), in which experts and bloggers from all over the world advise Internet users, especially those in repressive countries, how to set up their own blogs and get them known, while preserving their personal anonymity. Create your own blog, remain anonymous and get...

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Round and round the Internet merger wheel goes. Where it stops, nobody knows. Frenetic is the best way to describe the pace of consolidation in the online sector during the past few months. Media giant News Corp. (Research) has made three significant Web deals since July. Yahoo! (Research) acquired a significant stake in Chinese Net firm Alibaba.com last month. And eBay...

IN A NOD TO THE growing influence of the blogosphere, CBS.com, WashingtonPost.com, and ABCNews.com have recently launched blogs in their Web sites. On Monday, ABCNews.com launched three blogs--one for coverage of Washington, D.C., one for science and technology developments, and one for news related to the U.S. Supreme Court. CBS entered the blogosphere last month with a blog dubbed "The Public...

Google is planning a partner forum for about 400 people, including bloggers and journalists from major media outlets, and is prohibiting participants from writing about it, according to a search engine industry expert. Dubbed "Zeitgeist '05: The Google Partner Forum," the event is "the first 'customer innovation conference' Google said it has ever held," wrote Danny Sullivan in his Search Engine...