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Archived blogs for the week of Nov. 20, 2006

1272 - Nov. 22, 2006 - 4.49 PM EST

Online travel as popular as ever

Overall, U.S. online travel revenues are expected to reach about $128 billion in less than five years from now, according to a new market report from JupiterResearch.

"Online travel revenue in the US will continue to increase rapidly from even this year," said Jupiter analyst Diane Clarkson.

"Factors that will accelerate online travel spending are greater consumer wallet share, increasingly sophisticated products available on the Internet today and greatly improved online compliance in business travel" added Clarkson.

As a comparison, eMarketer's estimate of this year's U.S. online travel sales is somewhat more conservative at $77.7 million.

comScore Networks put first-half 2006 online travel sales at $34.7 million, a year-over-year increase of about 14.7 percent.

While exact numbers may not always match, all sources agree that online travel sales are continuing to increase steadily.

Posted on Businessblog™

1271 - Nov. 21, 2006 - 5.23 PM EST

FindWebEvents has launched

StreamLogic has launched what it calls a new search engine for certain Web and online events. The company announces the launch of its new Web event search engine, FindWebEvents.com.

The property, which leverages the power of Google's customized search technology, queries the Internet, returning results related to specific Web and online events.

FindWebEvents.com will allow users to rapidly and easily find Web events, training and podcasts for the topics on which they are searching.

Posted on Businessblog™

1270 - Nov. 21, 2006 - 3.12 PM EST

Baidu cleared of copyright infringement violations

Baidu, China's biggest Internet search engine has been cleared of copyright infringement violations by a court in Beijing.

The search engine company faced lawsuits from music companies after posting links to certain Web sites offering illegal music downloads.

However, the court ruling said the service did not constitute an infringement as the music was downloaded from Web servers owned by third parties, China's state press reported.

Posted on Businessblog™

1269 - Nov. 20, 2006 - 1.35 PM EST

Live.com banning irrelevant sites?

According to some, Live.com would be banning certain Web sites that take part in spammy or irrelevant link exchange campaigns designed to corrupt and mislead search engines into ranking those sites higher.

Barry Schwartz looks at a thread from Search Engine Watch which published an email from Live.com to a publisher:

(From Live.com) "Your site is acquiring links through posting to or exchanging links with other sites that are unrelated to your site content. Various techniques which attempt to acquire unrelated links in order to increase ranking are considered spamming and as a result your Web site has been excluded from our index. Please contact Live.com once you’ve removed these offending links and we will reevaluate the situation."

Barry Schwartz adds on his blog: “Microsoft is apparently making an effort in combatting search engine spam. However, I believe that the way Google handles unrelated links to your site isn't banning it but simply not counting said links. Unless it is a clear and transparent attempt for you to deliberately hurt the search results.”

Posted on Businessblog™

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