Firefox millions - only 12 per cent Google free (The Register)
Mozilla faces IRS audit over search sugar daddy In 2007, the Mozilla Foundation received 88 per cent of its revenue from a certain Mountain View sugar daddy. And thanks to its longstanding Google dependence, the organization is facing an IRS audit and questions over its tax exempt status.…
Drill, Baby, Drill: Google Finance Gets Ads; Google News Testing Them (Search Engine Land)
In my Ad Age column last month, I joked about Google taking a “drill, baby, drill” approach in rolling out more ads everywhere on its properties. Now the latest ad reservoir to be tapped: Google Finance, as announced today on the Google Blog. You’ll find a new box as shown above sporting ads on the Google Finance home page, as well as ads that are running along the sides of internal pages:
Searching Beyond Google (Law.com)
Most Web searching uses just a few providers. But according to technology writer Erik Sherman, there is a vast territory in the "invisible Web" that refers to databases connected to the Internet but not available for indexing by popular search engines, each with its own search capability.
A Search Engine With a Real Eye for Videos (AllThingsD Online via Yahoo! Finance)
Web video has transformed the way the Internet is used, but finding the exact clip you want can be incredibly hard. And it's no wonder, considering that sites like YouTube conduct their hunts by looking at a clip's "contextual metadata" -- tags, video title and description -- and thus can often be misled by false ...
YouTube plans to sell search-based ads a la Google (Los Angeles Times)
YouTube unveils an auction-based advertising system, similar to the one Google pioneered, that promotes sponsored video clips alongside regular search-engine results. Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube Inc., says he always gets the same question: "When are you guys going to make money?"
