The management at eBay Inc would no doubt have an RSS feed coming directly to them from the Google Base blog. And if they don’t, you’d have to ask why not? On Feb 24th, the official word came from Google that a Google Base payments system is about to be trialled. If you know anything

I thought this little snippet of business research was a no-brainer: SMB owners are getting more and more stressed with each passing year. It’s UK research but I’m sure it’s the same here for Australian business owners.

After reading this blog post about MSN’s latest search engine algo roll-out I’ve got the feeling their engineers are probably working overtime right now. Their engineering team are probably wearing frowns while the SEO team at Cars.com have got big grins instead. Although sadly for the Cars team it probably won’t last. Enjoy it for

Not the biggest news in the search-o-sphere but it’s still a step toward search engines really going mobile: Vodafone is about to get Google search capabilities on its 3G mobile phone. Will be interesting to see how user friendly the device+search will be.

It is a data finding from the USA market, not Australia, but a new Nielsen/Netratings report has confirmed that American search engine usage is growing faster than the overall consumer usage of the internet.
Why is that significant? It means that consumers are becoming more reliant on search engines to do everyday research than ever before.

Last I heard FOI spammers were called bloggers

Given the recent backlash about Google.cn, I thought I’d do a quick search to see if the Dalai Lama had commented about Google’s change in policy in China. Lo and behold I discovered this gem of an article from the New York Times website. I know I recommend a lot of things from this blog

OK, so they’d probably call it a business partnership (not what I’ve entitled this post :)) but Google has teamed up with BearingPoint to provide Google-esque search services to mega-corporates in the aerospace, finance and tech industries.
Does this mean BearingPoint is going to provide Adwords management or SEO services? Not quite. From what I have

“Can we trust Google with our secrets?” is the cover story headline on the latest issue of TIME magazine. I haven’t seen a copy in the local newsagent but you can be sure I’ll be picking up a copy, if only to sate my curiosity about what journalists and other commentators, supporters & critics have

It’s rumoured to be a deal worth roughly US $1,000,000,000. According to some fairly rampant speculation in the Blogosphere Google and Dell are considering a deal whereby Dell would pre-install 100 million personal computers with Google software such as the Google Toolbar, Desktop search etc. Nothing to announce at this point but Dell is being