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Tag: Search engine

Chinese Search Engine Baidu to Pay USD 4.9 Lakh For Unfair Competition
27May By AnkitaNo Comments
CHINA

Chinese Search Engine Baidu to Pay USD 4.9 Lakh For Unfair Competition

A court in Shanghai has ordered Chinese search engine Baidu to pay 3.23 million yuan (USD 490,000) to a Shanghai company for unfair competition. In April, Shanghai Hantao Information Consultancy Co. Ltd, operator of Dianping.com, sued Baidu and another online company Jietusoft, for copying comments and business information from Dianping.com onto Baidu's online applications and Jietusofts online map service, which caused huge losses to Dianping.com. Hantao demanded over 90 million yuan in compensation. The Pudong District Peoples Court yesterday ruled that Baidus action has decreased the number of Dianping.coms users and directed the flow to its apps, which has not only caused losses to Dianping.com, but also violated the principles of business ethics and honesty, state-run Xinhua ...
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Justdial Profit Decline 25% in Q4
21May By AdityaNo Comments
BUSINESS

Justdial Profit Decline 25% in Q4

Local search engine Just Dial today reported 25.08 per cent decline in net profit at Rs 35.33 crore for the quarter ended March 31. The company had reported a net profit of Rs 47.16 crore in the corresponding quarter a year ago. Just Dial Ltds total income from operations grew 14.92 per cent to Rs 179.61 crore in the quarter under review as against Rs 156.28 crore in the year-ago period, it said in a BSE filing. Its overall expenses stood at Rs 143.02 crore, up 19.29 per cent as compared to Rs 119.89 crore in the third quarter of the previous fiscal. During the entire 2015-16 fiscal, the companys net profit stood at Rs 141.8 crore as against Rs 138.89 crore in the year-ago period. Net sales during 2015-16 fiscal grew to Rs 690.83 crore as against Rs 589.8 crore a year ago.
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Yahoo’s Shortlisted Bidders offered Cash Deal
30Apr By AnkitaNo Comments
News

Yahoo’s Shortlisted Bidders offered Cash Deal

Yahoo Inc has shortlisted close to 10 bidders in the auction for its core Internet assets, including Verizon Communications Inc, with most offers involving cash rather than a combination with another company, according to people familiar with the matter. The shortlist comprises mainly large companies and big private equity firms including TPG Capital LP, and excludes many small companies that proposed some kind of combination, such as privately held Yellow Pages owner YP LLC, the people said this week. The sources declined to divulge the full list. Some bidders that did not make the shortlist because their first-round offers were not specific enough are still being kept close to the process by Yahoo's advisers, the people said. One of those bidders is Liberty Media Corp Chairman J...
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9 Ways Small Businesses Can Be Big on Google
30Nov By No Comments
BLOGS

9 Ways Small Businesses Can Be Big on Google

Having trouble getting your small business site to rank in the search engines? Not even sure where to start? This post will provide you with 9 simple hacks to ensure your site is properly optimized and starts ranking as soon as possible. These hacks have helped me to go from a startup to having millions of online visitors to my site each month in less than a year. If you're an e-commerce or local business, make sure to stick around to the end of the post. I've included some special hacks just for you!   1. Add customer reviews and ratings to each product you sell. These benefit you on a few different levels: they're great for user experience, they tend to increase conversion rates, and they're the type of supplementary content Google loves to see and reward by way of higher ranking...
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Bye bye Google, hello Alphabet
3Oct By PriyankaNo Comments
News

Bye bye Google, hello Alphabet

  Google Inc has morphed into Alphabet Inc. After U.S. markets closed on Friday, Alphabet replaced Google as the publicly traded company that will house Google's search and Web advertising businesses, maps, YouTube and its "moonshot" ventures such as driverless cars. (more…)
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15Oct By NitishNo Comments
Entrepreneurs Talk

Amit Singhal: The master of Google’s “ranking algorithm”

  Amit Singhal is the current Senior Vice President and head of head of Google's core ranking team. His main area of interests are Information Retrieval (IR), its application to web search, web graph analysis, and user interfaces for search. Born and brought up In Jhansi this brilliant entrepreneur graduated from IIT Roorkee and the gained his M.S. degree from University of Minnesota Duluth and  later in 1996 he entered the prestigious league of Doctorate in the field of  Computer Science at Cornell University. According to him, "UMD was the turning point in my life. Studying Information Retrieval with Don Crouch and then Don recommending that I move to Cornell to study with Gerard Salton, is the main reason behind my success today. Don gave me the love for search, I have...
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