Crafted Media news archive

03/11/08 - Google continues to expand

A study has found that Google is continuing to cement its dominant position in the online world. The company boosted the number of sites it runs by 411,000 last month, making its total growth in this ...

06/11/08 - Google and Yahoo deal falls through

Google has announced that its planned advertising deal with fellow search engine Yahoo has collapsed. David Drummond, senior vice president of Google, wrote in a blog that government regulators and so...

12/11/08 - Beta of DeepDyve released

An early beta of newly rebranded research engine DeepDyve has been released to consumers. Previously called Infovell, the search engine is reported to be able to access the "Deep Web" - some...

24/11/08 - Microsoft may rebrand Live Search

Computing giant Microsoft is rumoured to be relaunching Windows Live Search with a new brand name - news that may be of interest to those involved in search engine optimisation.The company has taken o...

07/11/08 - Palin received more online searches than Obama

Those involved in search marketing could be interested to learn that recent research showed Sarah Palin received more searches than Barack Obama in the run-up to the US presidential election.According...

28/11/08 - Riley steps up at Yahoo

Rich Riley is to take charge of Yahoo's European and Canadian operations following the resignation of Toby Coppel. Former Log-Me-On.com entrepreneur Mr Riley, who is currently in charge of Yahoo's Eur...

28/11/08 - Google tops search engine rankings

Industry analyst comScore has released its US search engine rankings in October 2008.The report placed Google at the top of the leaderboard, recording 63.1 per cent of all searches, which equates to 1...