PittsburghLive.com (http://pittsburghlive.com) announced on October 22 that a 29-year-old Fayette County woman, charged with luring men via the Internet to the home of another woman who they were instructed to rape, has been identified through a detailed investigation involving Yahoo (www.yahoo.com), the Internet search engine leader.
ClickZ News (www.clickz.com) announced on October 22 that a London-based group of search engine marketing professionals has formed Search Marketing Association UK (SMA-UK), a trade association to promote the SEM industry in the UK and other parts of Europe. The group formed as an alternative to the US-based Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization (SEMPO). After exploring various alternatives, including the possibility of forming a UK committee within SEMPO (www.sempo.org), ten UK members decided to form their own group. SMA-UK will provide a platform to inform and educate the marketplace of the benefits of search marketing in the overall marketing mix, as well as giving its members an industry voice. SMA-UK will offer corporate, individual and associate memberships. Corporate and individual members will have one vote each, and associate members, such as suppliers to the industry, will be non-voting members. Fees will be based on a flat-rate scheme, rather than the tiered structure employed by SEMPO. There will be no company promotions allowed, and corporate members will be required to appoint an individual to represent the company in the organization.
CNET News.com (http://news.com.com) announced on October 21 that the search engine giant Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) has quietly purchased the e-mail software company Stata Labs (www.statalabs.com), in what could be an investment in a coming PC search tool to rival Google and Microsoft.
The search engine giant Google Inc (www.google.com) announced on October 22 that its net profit and sales have more than doubled in the third quarter of 2004. The announcement spurred a spectacular jump in its share price in the US markets. The company's net profit leapt 154.5 per cent from a year ago to $52.0 million in the three months to September 30.
Atomz (www.atomz.com), a leading provider of hosted enterprise website applications and winner of the SIIA's Codie Award for Best Enterprise Search Engine, announced on October 21 that Maps.com (www.maps.com), a leading mapping solutions company serving business, education and consumer marketplaces, has selected Atomz's hosted solutions to tailor customer search results and improve overall conversion rates. Before choosing Atomz's award-winning hosted solutions, Maps.com relied on its own proprietary search engine, which did not afford them the ability to control visitor search results or display promotions based on search terms. In an effort to enhance their customers' online experience, Maps.com turned to Atomz's Commerce solution.
Japan Today (www.japantoday.com) announced on October 21 that Yahoo Japan Corp, Japan's largest Internet portal site operator, said that the daily access to its portal site reached 1.03 billion hits on October 20.
Metamorphosis.org.mk (www.metamorphosis.org.mk) announced on October 20 that the first Croatian search engine has been launched. Pogodak.hr (www.pogodak.hr) is a unique search engine for the Croatian cyberspace and is primarily developed for the Croatian Internet users. The main aim of the search engine is to provide a quality search of the Croatian Internet space to users.
Business Wire (http://home.businesswire.com) announced on October 20 that the search engine giant Google (www.google.com) was named the fastest growing technology company in North America, topping the 2004 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (www.fast500.com), a ranking of the fastest growing technology companies in North America based on percentage revenue growth over five years (fiscal year revenues 1999-2003) by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP (www.deloitte.com).
PC Pro (www.pcpro.co.uk) announced on October 20 that the search engine giant Google (www.google.com) is launching its Search Appliance (www.google.com/appliance) across Europe, two years after its introduction in the US. The “Google in a box” solution promises to provide a Google-like performance for documents held inside corporate Intranets. The Google Search Appliance is a combined hardware and software solution. Inside a standard rack mount unit is a standard Intel based server running Linux. On top of which is the Google index and search engines.
MethodSmart Media, Inc. (www.MethodSmart.com) announced on October 20 that it has been awarded the online marketing contract for the University of Tennessee College of Business/Center For Executive Education’s Senior Executive MBA Program. MethodSmart will provide online marketing services including initial website search engine optimization, link building, ongoing search engine maintenance and website design & development services for the Senior Executive MBA (http://semba.utk.edu) and the Executive MBA (www.emba.utk.edu) websites.
