Advertising revenues of Google + Yahoo > TV ads
This year the combined advertising revenues of Google and Yahoo! will rival the combined prime-time ad revenues of America's three big television networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, predicts Advertising Age. Both Google and Yahoo! make most of their money from advertising. Auctioning keyword search-terms, which deliver, along with their own search results, sponsored links to advertisers' websites, has proved to be very lucrative. Advertisers like these links because, unlike with TV ads, they pay only for directly measurable results. They are charged when someone clicks through to their own website.

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Google enhances search for Firefox users -ZDNet:
Google has added a new feature to its search engine that allows Firefox users to obtain search results more quickly. The search engine's preloaded link feature is supported by Mozilla browsers, including Firefox, but because Microsoft's Internet Explorer and other browsers do not provide such functionality, they will not be able to use the feature.

When you do a search on these browsers, we instruct them to download your top search result in advance, so if you click on it, you'll get to that page even more quickly.

There are some potential issues, however. "You'll run into trouble if the first match is a porno site and your company's proxy logs it-you get all cookies of the first match without seeing the page",one Firefox user said. Another user adds,people may unknowingly download illegal content.

Finding information: Search Engines

Phil Bradley has complied an excellent list of search engines with their best of utility value identified.This is a collection of search engines and similar resources that phil says he uses on a regular basis when looking for different types of information. Excellent list indeed.

What do you need to find, and what do you already know?	What is the best resource to make use of?
I know what I'm looking for, and I can describe it with some key words	Google is always a good bet, since it has the largest index.
	Yahoo Search is useful if Google doesn't do it for you.
	MSN Search is getting better and may provide results if the other two don't work.
I have an exact phrase that I want to search for	Any of the above, with "double quotes" around the phrase will do the trick.
I want a quick factual answer	Microsoft Encarta provides factual information to questions
	Ask Jeeves can sometimes be worth asking, if you tightly phrase your question
	Brainboost is new, but seems to work quite well.
	Factbites is also new. Good for very specific search terms
I want to compare results from different search engines	Jux2 will compare results from Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves
	Thumbshots Ranking compares results from Google, Yahoo, Alltheweb, AltaVista, MSN, Teoma, Wisenut.
	TurboScout allows you to type in the search once, then run it across 23 different search engines.
I want an overview of a subject.	Yahoo Directory provides 14 main categories
	Google Directory provides access to 16 main categories
	The Open Directory Project provides access to 16 main categories
I want some suggested categories to narrow my search	Clusty suggests narrower topics to search under
	Teoma suggests categories and collections of resources by experts
	Wisenut also has category suggestions
I want a small collection of websites I can look at	Any of the three engines above will give you access to websites, rather than pages
I need recent additions to search engines	GooFresh from Research Buzz for new additions to Google
	Exalead Advanced Search to limit by time
	AlltheWeb Advanced Search has a date limiting function
I want to see thumbnails of pages before visiting them	Icerocket automatically provides thumbnails
	Exalead will show thumbnails and loads the page locally for you to see it
	ZapMeta has a quick view option
I want to do a comprehensive search across search engines	eZ2Find is a meta search engine with access to 6 major engines
	Ixquick has a nunber of UK based engines in its collection
	Fazzle gives you a percentage result
I want to re-rank or re-order my results	Exalead Advanced re-ranks by date
	MSN Search Builder re-orders on update/popularity/accuracy
	Google Personalized will re-rank based on your interests
	ZapMeta re-ranks on popularity, title, source, domain
I want a more personalised search experience	Personalised Google Emphasis subject areas of importance
	Eurekster is good for groups of people
	My Jeeves storage, access from different computers
I don't know how to spell what I'm looking for	Exalead Advanced search allows you to search for approximate spelling or phonetic spelling
	The Reverse Dictionary will suggest words based on your suggestions
	Dictionary.com can suggest correct spellings for you
I want a visual representation of my results	Kartoo provides a visual indication of importance of results and links between them
	Mooter provides an initial visual representation
	WebBrain displays a visual representation above, and links below
I need to search for different file formats	Google Advanced search for .pdf .ps .doc .xls .ppt .rtf
	Exalead Advanced for .txt .pdf .doc .xls .ppt .rtf .wpd .swf
I need to find websites that I can trust	Pinakes provides a list of Virtual Libraries with links to sites chosen by experts
	Librarians' Index to the Internet sites are chosen by librarians
	The World Wide Web Virtual Library provides access to virtual libraries
I need access to academic resources	Infomine for scholarly internet resource collections
	Scirus provides access to scientific information
	Google Scholar provides access to scholarly articles
	SMEALSearch for Academic business information
I want to search geographically	Country search engines is my list of over 2,500 country search engines
	Teoma Advanced has a regional search option
	Many search engines have regional versions - replace the .com with the country code
I want to search the hidden web or the invisible web	Turbo10 searches over 700 deep web search engines
	Invisible Web is a small collection of high quality resources
	eZ2Find suggests appropriate databases once a search has been run
	ProFusion has access to hundreds of specialised search engines
I need to find images	Google Images has over 1 billion indexed
	Yahoo Search has over 1.5 billion images
	Fagan Finder lists several dozen good engines
I need to find moving images	Yahoo! Video Search broad search
	Google Video Search for recent television programmes
	Blinkx TV video search
I need to find sounds	FindSounds for sound effects and musical instruments
I want to find out detailed information about a certain site	link:www.sitename.com in a search engine tells you who links to it
	The Wayback machine may be able to show you an archived version of a site
	Better Whois shows ownership for top level domains
	Alexa provides traffic details and related sites
I need search engines suitable for children	Kids search tools wide variety of useful resources
	KidsClick! directory listings, chosen by librarians
	Yahooligans! for children aged 7-12
I want to find people	Internet Address Finder US biased, but still useful
	192 for UK individuals
	British Telecom Directory Enquiries
I want people's opinions on a subject	Google Groups provides access to newsgroups
	Daypop searches weblog entries
	Technorati searches weblogs in more depth
I want current affairs and news information	Google news over 4,000 news resources
	BBC it's the BBC - what else to say?
	MSN Newsbot, wide variety of resources, slightly US biased
I want information on particular words	Online Etymology Dictionary Large and impressive collection
	World Wide Words International English from a UK viewpoint
	Anagrams Very good utility for finding anagrams.
	Acronym Finder is extremely good
What's new on the Internet?	Neat New Stuff from an American Librarian, Marylaine Block
	Librarians Index to the Internet new sites that have been discovered and listed
	USA Today web guide is fairly eclectic
I want local information	Google provides local information by adding in a place
	Streetmap for UK information on places, streets and postcodes
	UpMyStreet for UK information on particular areas/regions
I want to share or view bookmarks	FURL excellent for saving pages and sharing them with others
	SPURL is very similar to FURL
	Del.icio.us for social bookmarking
	Connotea online reference management service for scientists from Nature
	My Bookmarks is the one that I've been using just for bookmarks.

Biometrics, the machete hack -News.com.au
Criminals chopped off the tip of a man's finger in Malaysia to override a high-tech security feature that required his fingerprint to start his luxury car.