Internet Pro News

[2004-09-22] Google Launches Local Search For Canada
An announcement on Google's blog reveals that the search engine has expanded their local search capabilities to include the Canadian provinces. The message appeared on the search engine's blog yesterday, September 21. The introduction of Google's Local Search Canada brings the all of the capabilities of personalized local searching to the Northern Country.

[2004-09-21] German Court Rejects Google Lawsuit
A court in Hamburg, Germany has thrown out a lawsuit against Google concerning trademark infringement. A German company brought the suit against the search engine because they felt Google was selling ads that featured their trademark.

[2004-09-21] Google Toolbar Contains Input Validation Vulnerability
A security flaw has been discovered within the Google Toolbar that will allow the execution of scripts, malicious or otherwise. According to articles that appeared in SecurityTracker.com and SecurityFocus.com, the exploit allows HTML and script interjection through the Google Toolbar page, About.html.

[2004-09-17] Ask Jeeves Teams Up With The Red Cross For Hurricane Relief
Search engine Ask Jeeves has announced that they will be teaming up with the Red Cross to provide much needed relief funds to victims of the recent hurricanes. To assist with the relief effort, Ask has launched redcross.ask.com with ideas of donating funds gained from search queries.

[2004-09-15] Dogpile Becomes WebFetch
Because of the linguistic implications, Meta search engine Dogpile has decided to change their name to WebFetch. This change is intended for the company's European and UK search sites.

[2004-09-13] AOL To Introduce Comparison Shopping Site
America Online is preparing to introduce a Yahoo or Froogle-like shopping web presence that will allow users to search and compare desired products. The site, called In-Store.com, is scheduled for launch next Monday (September 20, 2004).

[2004-09-07] Picasa Ads Appearing On Google Image Search Results
Ever since Google acquired the rights to Picasa, they have put a large effort into featuring the photo software company on their own pages, much like advertisements. When the search engine first featured a link for the digital photo utility, traffic to Picasa increased by 6000%.