Source: Ellen Keohane, DMNews, July 28 2008

With the goal of proving searchers with richer Internet depth, a new search engine, Cuil launched today.

Here's a short news summary to get everyone up to speed on the recent news of takeovers and partnerships occuring between Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. How will this impact the Search Marketing industry as a whole? Only time will tell.

A roundtable, sponsored by clickTRUE and hardwarezone.com, was held with the focus of discussion on the many faces of digital marketing.

With delegates from both agency and client side including Zed Digital, AGI Communications, Mandate Advertising, DHL Global Mail, Standard Chartered Bank, BMW, clickTRUE, Hardware Zone, Meritus Hotels and Resorts a healthy debate rose over what stage digital marketing take-up was at in Singapore, the value of social networks and search marketing, why some marketers and agencies are slow on the take-up and even who’s fault that is.

Google recently launched its Hot Trends™ Search Tool for Singapore, allowing web users to know the most popular searches made by Singaporeans everyday. To try out Google Hot Trends Singapore, a new feature of Google Trends, go to www.google.com.sg/trends.

SPH Search's Global Web Results to be Powered by Yahoo! Search Technology

SINGAPORE, 12 March 2008 - SPH Search Pte Ltd (SPH Search), a joint venture between leading local media company Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and Norwegian media group Schibsted ASA (Schibsted), and Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company and the largest publisher on the web, today announced a strategic partnership whereby SPH Search's global web results will be powered by Yahoo! Search technology.

(Article By Thomas Ricker: Engadget. source: http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/01/microsoft-offers-44-6-billion-for-yahoo/)

Should innovation-minded managers look at the fast-growing Internet company as a model - or an anomaly?
(article from strategy+business URL: www.strategy-business.com/press/enewsarticle/enews013108?pg=all#authors)

This decade's most re­markable business story has been the rise of Google from the dot-com ashes. The company didn't even exist 10 years ago - it was incorporated by its founders, Stanford University graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin, on September 7, 1998 - but it is today a juggernaut that is as feared as it is admired. The company's growth has been dizzying, its revenues shooting up from less than US$500 million in 2002 to more than $10.5 billion in 2006. And despite a prolonged hiring binge, an aggressive acquisition program, and a multibillion-dollar investment in building data centers, Google remains robustly profitable, earning a net income of $2 billion on $7.5 billion of sales through the first half of 2007. Since the company's initial public offering in August 2004, its stock price has risen fivefold.