Beijing— Chinese authorities have initiated a tough fight to “purify” its cyber media against pornography, has blocked another 50 websites containing porn and vulgar content after getting Goggle and other search engines to apologize for carrying porn and lewd content, bringing the total to 91, the number of sites that have been blocked in less […]

New York— The News Corp.-owned MySpace is poised to become the first social network to be available through TV sets later this year, has announced plans to launch MySpace Widget, that allows users to interact with the social networking site directly from their TV. Access to MySpace will be available through a new Widget Channel, […]

San Francisco— According to a December SEC filing, search and advertising titan Google Inc. is feeling the heat of recession, which prompted slashing down a large number of temporary workers at Google’s lavish campuses and the layoff of an unspecified number of its contractors. Google on Dec. 15, submitted a regulatory filing with the Securities […]

According to AdWordsAdvisor, the official Google mouthpiece at the WebmasterWorld, we now have confirmed reports that Google is carrying out a beta test on a new AdWords budgeting option is named “Timeframe” and offers advertisers the capability to shape their budget by month or by day. Normally, a monthly budget enables Google to supply ads […]

Las Vegas— Trouncing out over rivals Yahoo and Google, Microsoft Corp., the third most-visited Internet search portal, has forged a five-year alliance with Verizon Wireless to be the default Internet search services provider for cell phones, in addition to managing mobile advertising services, which certainly appears to be seen as a blow to rivals Google […]

Mountain View, Calif., — In an attention-grabbing strategy of inter-mingling their products, Google aims to tap customers from their more successful products to their less successful ones. On its Google Checkout page, Google claims that when you use a “Checkout” icon and buy an AdWords ads, you will not only get the Checkout sale processed […]

Beijing — Google Inc., owner of the world’s most-used Internet search engine, appeared a winner in a trademark infringement row in China over its subsidiary’s name and trademark “Gu Ge,” which means “harvesting song” in Chinese, prompted by a company called Beijing Guge Science and Technology, ending an 18- month dispute with a local company, […]

New York— A former Vogue front page Canadian model “Liskula Cohen,” has filed a suit against Google in order to expose the identity of an anonymous blogger who made offensive remarks made about her by calling her a “skank” and an “old hag” on a blog hosted by its Blogger Publishing service, according to the […]

San Francisco— Last night, Yahoo via an email notified their Search Marketing advertisers, informing them about new terms and conditions including a controversial provision that authorizes them the right to create ads, remove or add keywords to campaigns and “ optimize ” accounts of its advertisers. Well, surprisingly not all of it is that shocking, […]