Google Launches Business Gmail Beta

Its stock may be down but its ambitions are higher than ever.

Google is making news with the beta test of a program that will offer its Gmail services as an enterprise hosted email solution. For those of you not fluent in business BS, this means that the search engine is considering making Gmail available to businesses as well as individual consumers.

Read more in this story in NetworkWorld.

http://searchviews.com/archives/2006/02/google_launches_5.php

Online Searches Grow 55 Percent Year-Over-Year

On Thursday, Nielsen NetRatings reported that the total number of searches in the U.S. conducted across approximately 60 search engines grew 55 percent year over year to nearly 5.1 billion searches in December 2005.

There were 3.3 billion searches conducted via search engines in December 2004. While the number of searches conducted online swelled, the number of people connecting to the Internet rose a mere three percent to 207 million people in the U.S.

http://www.govtech.net/news/news.php?id=98427

Microsoft Buys Mobile Search Firm

The MotionBridge move was one of two major announcements that Microsoft made as the 3GSM worldwide mobile technology conference in Barcelona, Spain, got underway. The other involved a push e-mail technology that many see giving Microsoft a greater ability to offer an alternative to Research in Motion's BlackBerry.

Source: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/ebiz/48835.html