Yet another update from search engine Ask.com just a year and a half after its last overhaul. It’s going live today in the US with its “next generation,” while the…

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Online video search firm Blinkx, which is publicly traded on the AIM market, has dropped its public bid to acquire pay-per-click ad network MIVA. The London- and San Francisco-based Blinkx…

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More on that search R&D centre Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) in June told advertisers it would build in Europe… CEO Steve Ballmer (pictured in London yesterday) fronted the launch in Paris…

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Media agency firm Aegis Group has acquired U.S. search engine marketer Range Online Media.  The purchase was made by Aegis’ search marketing arm, Isobar. Terms were not disclosed, although Aegis…

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Search optimizer Quintura has raised an undisclosed bridge funding from Mangrove Capital Partners as part of a larger round of financing. In a post on its official blog, Moscow-based Quintura…

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It’s a tale of two Baidus - and an excellent attempt at domain name profiteering. Baidu Europe, a five-year-old, eight-person Dutch internet consultancy, wants to sell both the trademark and…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is restructuring its Search Business Group to add a new group geared toward commercial search. It’s picked Multimap CEO Jeff Kelisky to be GM of this new…

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Cambridge, UK-based online search firm True Knowledge has closed its second round of funding...the funding was led by existing investors Octopus Ventures and angel investors. It brings the total raised…

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As the UK’s housing market goes in to reverse, property search startup Nestoria is looking overseas for growth. Founded by former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) execs Javier Etxebeste and Ed Freyfogle…

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Perhaps the title of the Cannes International Advertising Festival panel—“From Metrics to Brand: Online’s Next Challenge"-- was deliberately bland. But the chance to see the outspoken WPP Group’s CEO Sir…

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Vish Makhijani, the SVP and GM of Search at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is joining Yandex, the number-one Russian search site, as the CEO of Yandex Labs, a new Silicon Valley…

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Will other brands join Tesco on “the moral high ground?” Or, will the supermarket chain find itself standing alone following its decision not to bid for trademarked keywords on Google?…

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Joseph at our sister site paidContent.org reports Cuill, a start-up promising “a new approach to search”, has raised a big $25 million second round led by Madrone Capital Partners. Still…

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Kenshoo, an Israeli search engine marketer, has raised an unspecified second round from VC firm Arts Alliance. The investment follows closely on the heals of its first round, from Sequoia,…

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Europe’s internet search project—Quaero—has gotten a lot of flak for taking government money to create an alternative to Google (NSDQ: GOOG). The noise level has only increased after the EU…

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The European Union’s group of data privacy regulators said Monday that internet protocol (IP) addresses should generally be regarded as personal information, particularly when an individual is identified through such…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will buy Norwegian web search software firm Fast Search & Transfer in a deal that values the company at 6.6 billion kroner (£623 million), reports Bloomberg. The…

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Twenga, a comparative shopping engine, has raised a €2.6 Million first round from the 3i Group. The French company, which launched last year, also has unspecified angel funding from Jean-Noel…

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An interesting original effort from France Telecom: it has launched a new search engine called Le Moteur (The Engine), for French language users. Besides the text results, it also has…

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A group of German book publishers is behind Libreka.de, a new book search engine intended to be an alternative Google’s own book scan and search program. According to Deutsche Welle,…

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Blinkx, the online video search engine that has as many users as the number of press releases the company has issued since its inception (a joke...calm down), has launched a…

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Enterprise and media (including mobile) search firm Fast Search & Transfer (based in Norway) is laying off about 148 employees after an internal restructuring. Its Q2 saw a net loss…

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This is complicated and confusing, even before things have started: France and Germany thought developing a European search engine to rival Google-Yahoo-Microsoft’s dominance around the word would be a good…

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The European Union is expanding a look into Google’s data retention and privacy policies to encompass all search engines. The inquiry by the panel of national data protection officers already…

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A British ad campaign has people accusing Ask.com of being a corporate wolf in radical activist’s clothing, the WSJ reports. The online, TV, radio, and outdoor campaign – no print…

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