SEO Resource (www.seoresource.net), a search engine optimization firm that works with non-profit organizations and helps small to medium-sized businesses achieve top search engine rankings, announced on September 13 that it is taking Google up on their Google Grants offer (www.google.com/grants), which awards free AdWords advertising to non-profit charitable organizations.
The U.S. Defense Department announced on September 10 that it is funding work on new search engine-like software to detect attacks coming from inside a computer system. Piscataway, New Jersey-based Telcordia Technologies, Inc. (www.telcordia.com), a company which provides flexible, standards-based software and services for IP, wireline, wireless and cable, received a $1.26 million contract to develop the new software. The 18-month agreement is funded by the Arlington, Virginia-based Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
New York-based 121 Communications, Inc. (www.web121.com), a custom web development and software company, announced on September 9 the launch of Vote121 (www.Vote121.com), a free, innovative new browser toolbar that brings all the latest news and commentary about the Bush and Kerry campaigns straight into the user's browser. Vote 121 includes a search feature that can search the candidates' websites on various issues and it can search the web for more information on any topic. The search is powered by the Vivisimo search engine (http://vivisimo.com), which was chosen for its unique ability to cluster contextual results from a wide variety of sources.
Linguit GmbH (www.linguit.com), a UK-based language technology company, announced on September 10 the UK-wide launch of Nuggets (www.myNuggets.net), a new search engine for mobile phones, which answers questions via text messages, and the first fully automatic question answering service for mobile phone users based on SMS technology, which is popular in the UK and the rest of Europe.
Danny Sullivan, the patron blogger of search engine happenings, has written an article, in which he analyzes the good and the bad sides of the search engine marketing organization SEMPO (www.sempo.org), and in which he announces his resignation from the group's advisory board in the hope that the group now has its own legitimacy on which to run. The article can be found on the search engine marketing website SearchEngineWatch.com at http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/3405021.
OnCorp Direct Inc. (www.oncorp.com), a recognized leader in providing public record search and registration services, announced on September 9 the launch of its Comprehensive Pre-Search, a sophisticated search application that provides the business community with the ability to retrieve consolidated company information from numerous government and other directory sources across North America, including domain names, with a single query.
Rocketinfo Inc. (www.rocketinfo.com), a leading supplier of current news search, content and publishing solutions, which operates the popular RocketNews search engine (www.rocketnews.com), announced on September 9 that it has formed a strategic partnership with Ottawa, Ontario-based dna13 Inc. (www.dna13.com), a provider of communications management software.
Wyoming-based IDES (www.ides.com), a market leader in plastics data display and search engine technology, whose flagship search engine, Prospector, contains 53 000 materials from 456 global resin suppliers, announced on September 8 the release of its new Alternative Resin Search technology, which will help replace higher cost resins and discontinued materials with a single mouse click.
Search engine giant Google has begun including an ad-style Picasa banner on the result pages for its image search engine (http://images.google.ca), as well as a free download Picasa software option. The software is essentially a photo album that allows users to catalog, edit and share digital images that are stored on their computers.
Search engine giant Google turns 6 years old in a birthday celebration that has seen much change over the years. On September 7, 1998, Google Inc. opened its door for the first time in Menlo Park, California. The door came with a remote control as it was attached to the garage of a friend who sublet space to the new corporation’s staff of three.
