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Ask Jeeves Buys Excite Europe, Continues
Expansion
Expanding further into Europe, Ask Jeeves has bought portal network
Excite Europe from Tiscali, reports NetImperative. Excite will remain
a separate brand under Ask Jeeves, with operations continuing out
of Excite Europe's headquarters in Rome. Ask Jeeves acquired the
US-operated Excite.com in March 2004.
Google releases Enterprise Search
The workplace tool, called Google Desktop Search for the Enterprise,
is expected to be available for free download on Wednesday at http://desktop.google.com/enterprise.
Like its cousin, Google Desktop Search for the Enterprise is designed
to let users find information stored in their PCs, such as e-mail
messages, word processing documents, spreadsheet files, and photos.
Google Desktop Search for Enterprise adds new enterprise-level
security, configuration and deployment controls, as well as the
ability to search the full text of IBM Lotus Notes messages through
a collaborative effort between Google and IBM. “Finding information
quickly in business is more than a convenience – it’s
a necessity,” said Dave Girouard, general manager of Google’s
enterprise business. “With the addition of Google Desktop
Search for Enterprise, businesses of all sizes can offer their employees
one-stop Google search for the desktop, intranet, or web.”
“With Google Desktop Search for the Enterprise, we are giving
more than 118 million Lotus Notes users greater flexibility in searching
for critical business information stored on their desktop.”
Study: Triple the Number of Visitors Rejecting Third-Party
Cookies
Users have apparently been adding insult (rejection) to injury (deletion)
when it comes to the cookie-deletion controversy. The percentage
of website visitors rejecting third-party cookies tripled last year,
from roughly 4 percent in January to 12 percent in December and
has hovered at that rate up to this month, according to WebTrends,
MediaPost writes. The analytics company looked at records of some
five billion visitor sessions per month on thousands of it clients'
websites.
The WebTrends research showed that third-party rejections occurred
most frequently in retail, with 16.7 percent of visitors declining
third-party cookies; other high-rejection-rate categories are telecom
(15.4 percent), healthcare (14.7 percent), manufacturing (13.3 percent),
transportation (13 percent) and media (12 percent).
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