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A survey by Captivate Digital shows that half of all Irish companies don’t place in the top five search results for keywords in their categories. This reduces the companies’ possibility of consumers discovering their products or services. The survey estimates around 75 percent of internet users depend on search engines like Google to [...] Tags: Ireland, Irish, Search Engine Optimization, SEO

LucasFilm has filed a trademark infringement suit against Digg.com, citing that the popular social news site is too similar in name to “The Dig”– a video game first released by the Lucas owned entertainment company in 1994. LucasFilm claims that Digg is identical or nearly identical to The Dig and is confusingly similar in sound, meaning, [...] Tags: dig, Digg, LucasFilm

Yahoo Desktop Products team has made available the Yahoo Search Gadget for Windows Vista. Yahoo currently has this as the only Vista product. Users can operate the Search Gadget on the Windows Vista sidebar going around the need to open a different browser. Consumers can get into web search, yahoo answers, local, [...] Tags: Gadget, Search, Windows Vista, yahoo

American searchers spent a lot of time in January hitting the search engines. ComScore said Americans made 6.9 billion searches for the month, with Google handling 3.3 billion of them. Those searches gave Google 47.5 percent of the market, and that was a little increase over their December share. After Google, the other major search [...] Tags: ComScore, Market Share, Searches January

Google has stepped up its battle with Microsoft for users of online applications. The Google Apps Premier Edition launched today, and it will compete with Microsoft’s well-known Office software and their Office Live services. Google Apps combines a number of applications like Gmail and Docs & Spreadsheets into one place anyone with a web browser [...] Tags: Gmail, Google Apps, Microsoft Office, Spreadsheets