The Battle For Gmail.de
Gmail.de is not owned by Google, but by a German venture capitalist who runs a physical and electronic postal service called G-Mail.
Daniel Giersch, who named G-Mail after himself and applied for a German trademark as early as 2000, won a permanent injunction against Google earlier this year, preventing the company from offering Gmail.com email addresses [...]
From Domainer To Revolutionary: The Plan To Unseat Google
Frank Schilling describes in a post on his blog how the world's six top domain owners could leverage their power to set up an alternative search engine and advertising network that might eventually unseat Google, the world's top search engine, whose monopoly-like powers are increasingly feared by website owners, online marketers and privacy advocates alike.
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Google CPA: Cash Cow or Free-For-All?
Google has been testing out a new advertising program. The program, Google CPA (CPA stands for Cost Per Action), is similar to the current CPC (Cost Per Click) options available with Google AdWords.
The difference is that, instead of advertisers paying for each click their ad receives, they would only pay for a click through to [...]
Microsoft Quietly Making Untold Millions
Assume for a second that you're among the almost 80% of people that use Internet Explorer to surf the web. You're looking for Lexus Financial Services. You know that their actual domain name is LexusFinancial.com. But for some reason you enter Lexus-Financail.com into your browser bar - and you're in good company, because millions of [...]
Google Goes After Polish Poets In Microsoft-Style Legal Attack
Google has launched legal action against the Polish Grupa Młodych Artystów i Literatów (GMAil), or Group of Young Artists and Writers, over the domain name gmail.pl which the group had registered on November 1, 2006.
Izabela Krawczyk of GMAiL told news agency Agence France-Presse that Google had turned to Poland's IT and telecommunications tribunal to try [...]
Why "Yahoo" Is The #1 Search Term On Google
Google Trends indicates that over the course of 2006 the search term "Yahoo" became more popular than "sex", making it the #1 query on Google:
Yahoo apparently faces a similar dilemma with roles reversed: When you search for "Google" on Yahoo, Yahoo thoughtfully displays a second search box as if to tell you, "Hey cutie, you [...]