Paid search, the engine that's driving many Internet companies into profitability, is getting a dose of reality.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to show off a new paid-search service on Wednesday that will eventually go toe-to-toe with rival Google and supplant partner Yahoo's advertising.
Paid search listings have helped pull Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN Web portal from the dot-com advertising mire, but America Online is still in search of a saviour.
An Australian company plans to tackle Google's stranglehold on the domestic Web searching market.
Yahoo's announcement today that it has successfully completed its acquisition of commercial search provider, Overture Services, has could cast doubts over its relationship with LookSmart in Australia.
Is the world going to collapse if we own up to the fact that some Internet-based applications are a huge pain? I doubt it, but not everyone seems to agree.
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Troubled online storage start-up Omnidrive late last week said it was continuing to develop its products and was examining the potential to merge its technology with that of other companies.
These days, you're just as likely to see high-technology surfboard designers wearing board shorts to work as Star Trek T-shirts.
The major security flaws suffered by the Big Brother Web site are the most recent example of an apparent "launch first, fix later" approach within Channel Ten. But a chequered history with the Web may help explain the problems.
special report The two Web services standards are now settling into their respective roles and the reasons for choosing one over the other are becoming clearer.
Australia's IT professionals are curbing their salary expectations, opting instead to look at ongoing career opportunities when on the job hunt.
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