According to cnet.com, Lycos,com, one of the 1st internet search engines just sold for $35 Million to Ybrant Digital, an India-based digital marketing company. Cnet.com points out that the site once sold for $12.5 Billion dollars in May 2000, then most recently sold in 2004 for just $95 Million. You might be surprised as I was to find out that the site still draws some 16 million visitors a … [Read more...]
TechCrunch: Google Buys Slide.com For Just $182 Million
According to TechCrunch.com, Google will announce on Friday that it has bought the social gaming company Slide.com For $182 Million Dollars. A Businessweek article from 2007 quoted Slide investor David Weiden of Khosla Ventures as saying: "If Slide cashes out for $1.5 billion, Levchin "would regard it as abject failure." Slide describes itself as: "As one of the pioneer app developers … [Read more...]
ASK.COM Starts Asking Its Users To Answer Search Requests
Ask.com has begun testing a new service that lets users of its search engine submit questions to other Ask.com users According to Doug Leeds, President of Ask.com, the new "Ask the Community" feature allows the search engine to provide specific answers to a greater portion of the search queries it receives, instead of simply displaying links to relevant web pages. The community will vote on … [Read more...]
WebVisible.com: Average Small Business Spent $2,231 On PPC in Q2 2010
According to a new report by the internet firm WebVisible (www.webvisible.com), says that the average small business advertiser spent $2,231 on search advertising in Q2 2010, up 1.4% from Q1 2010 and 159% over over Q2 2009. The most popular advertiser categories in Q2 2010 were attorneys, general contractors and dentists. Air conditioning contractors, landscapers, and businesses offering … [Read more...]
Google Is Now Fully Caffeinated As Its Web Indexing Project Is Complete
Google announced today on its blog that is had completed its new web indexing system called Caffeine. It was last August that Google first announced it was working on this project. According to Google Caffeine provides: "50% fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it's the largest collection of web content we've offered. Whether it's a news story, a blog or a forum post, … [Read more...]
ITIF Report: Global Economic Benefits Of The Internet $1.5 Trillion, More Than Global Sales of Medicine, Renewable Energy, & Government R&D, Combined
Included in the VeriSign 1Q 2010 Domain Name Industry Brief, is a a new study by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. Titled "The Internet Economy 25 Years After .com: Transforming Commerce & Life," the study draws on a variety of research sources to gauge the commercial impact of the Internet, in conjunction with the 25th … [Read more...]
Cisco: Internet Traffic to Increase 4X By 2014
Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc said it expects global Internet traffic to more than quadruple by 2014 as more people use the Internet to watch videos and chat with friends online. Cisco forecast Internet traffic to rise to 767 exabytes a year by 2014, with most of the growth coming from online video. That forecast is also 100 exabytes higher than the level it projected last year … [Read more...]