Gmail Going Live April 1st

According to dozens of Google-watchers, Google’s ad-driven email system, Gmail is slated to move from beta to live-status on Friday April 1st, one year after it was introduced to a limited number of testers. On its first day, many thought Gmail was an April...

MSN Enters Paid Search Market

MSN has added a second pillar to its new search division and a new threat to rivals Google and Yahoo with today’s introduction of its own paid-advertising program, MSN Paid Search Solution. Contextual, keyword based paid-advertising is the largest revenue...

comScore Media Metrix Search Engine Ratings Released

Search engine watch has printed December 2004 stats from comScore Media Metrix detailing the market share of the major search engines going into the new year. Google continues to dominate, generating 48% of all search results either directly or by providing results to...

Why am I still using Google?

When Yahoo dropped Google results in favor of its own Inktomi generated listings, the search world expected Yahoo to gain some ground in market share. While this did in fact happen, the increase was relatively insignificant, and Google remained on top. Now that MSN...

MSN(beta) Is Now Live

MSN has removed the beta-wrap from its proprietary search engine and is now showing self-generated results at MSN.Com. Beta results had started bleeding into MSN listings over the past three weeks but since Sunday (Jan 16), the .COM (US / Global) version of MSN has...