Yahoo! Search to power OptusNet users

Australia’s second largest telco, Optus, says Yahoo! Search would from now on power search requests from OptusNet users.

Optus said that under an agreement signed with Yahoo! Australia and New Zealand, Yahoo! Search Technology would power web search results on the OptusNet dialup and broadband portals.

The telco said the agreement ended its three-year relationship with Sensis/Looksmart.

It said that each month there were four million search requests from OptusNet users.

New ASCII image generation tool – Using Google images

I just found this excellent ASCII image generation tool, it is really exciting, It gives an opportunity to view some top people images all generated with small character containing their names, This tool is really amazing, it fetches images from the google database and rearranges with characters,
Check it out your self, http://c6.org/toogle

Here are 2 image searches for the phrases “sergey brin” and “Larry Page” Google founders

SEC OK’s Google IPO – Google on its way to trade as early as Thursday

The Securities and Exchange Commission granted final approval Wednesday to the paperwork required for Google Inc.’s initial public offering, paving the way for the Internet search giant to set a price for its shares and begin selling them after several stumbles and a last-minute downward revision on the size of the offering.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20040818_1821.html

AnooX — New Search Engine released, Anoox Not for Profit Search Engine

Google IPO – Notice of revised date to have the registration statement declared effective

Google sent the following Mail to people who registered to bid before the IPO price is determined,

Google Slashes IPO Price Range – IPO Price range reduced by Google,

In a Surprising move by Google, The IPO range price was reduced by Google from 108$-135$ to 85$-95$,

According to the reuters article:

Google Inc., the Web search engine, on Wednesday slashed the price range on its eagerly awaited initial public offering to between $85 and $95 per share from $108 to $135 per share.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6004505

Google’s IPO delayed

Google Inc.’s initial public offering has been delayed while the company awaits final approval of its paperwork by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Regulators made no decision Tuesday as Google had requested, said John Heine, an SEC spokesman. The Internet search company had requested that its registration statement be made effective at 4 p.m. EDT to clear the way for shares to begin trading as early as Wednesday morning. More here

Yahoo offers domain registration services at $9.95 per year

Yahoo one of the Giant internet companies is now enterning into the domain registration service industry, they are competing with big names like godaddy, network solutions etc, Yahoo already offers free/paid web hosting, web design services, email services and many more, Now their venture into domain registration market is an important improvement, previously they were offering domain registration at 35$ per year which is way higher than the current price,

Small businesses will be benefited a lot from their exciting offer from yahoo,

MSN New beta search engine review now closed,

Google seeks OK to sell shares

Google has signaled that its share auction is nearly complete, asking the Securities and Exchange Commission for approval to begin selling 25.7 million shares of stock starting late this afternoon.

Venture capitalists and Google watchers said yesterday’s request, coming on the first business day after the bidding opened, suggested the Web search provider’s much-anticipated auction already may be oversubscribed at a price in the target range of $108 to $130 a share. That would fetch Google between $2.8 billion and $3.3 billion, the biggest initial public offering ever for an Internet company.