In search of search maturity

The search engine marketing business is booming. While the good times are set to roll for some time yet, older hands are concerned that the business needs to get out of the gold rush mentality that characterised the dot com boom and bust. The British Search Marketing Association has been set up to share information among its members and to promote the industry both to businesses and to government and share best practice. ...more

Trexy offers fresh look at search

You'd have thought search had pretty much been cracked. Google pretty much nailed it a few years back and has since been tweaking its algorithm to perfection so that everything we'll ever need will be presented through a Google search result. Well, there's a new kid on the block: a young goat named Trexy using technology that uses search trails to make it quicker to get to the information you're after as well as opening up new areas that Google and other search engines aren't privvy to. ...more

UK Government refuses to legislate against spam.

The Government is abandoning the battle against unsolicited email despite its desire to take Britain to the forefront of e-commerce. The job of policing and punishing spammers will be left to ISPs. A spokesperson for the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said, "the Government has decided that the most effective way to control unsolicited commercial e-mail is through self regulation by the industry. ...more

Sun floats idea of buying Novell to taunt IBM

Reports that Sun is considering buying Novell have pushed the latter's share prices up nearly 7 per cent in trading yesterday. A post in the blog of Sun's Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Schwartz on Sunday - the eve of the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco - drew attention to Novell as the potential target of a Sun acquisition. Novell is currently valued at $2. ...more

A Power Point to your Palm

Data Viz's Documents To Go software enables PowerPoint, Excel and Word content to be read on any Palm-OS based handheld. The Professional Edition, Version 4.0, uses DocSync technology to present Office data without any loss of formatting and, as well as supporting Microsoft Office files, it will view Quattro Pro and Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets and files from WordPerfect and Word Pro. ...more