Hitwise Intelligence's VP for Research, Heather Hopkins made an interesting analysis of Yahoo! online properties based on some Hitwise data. Hopkins noted that of the top 20 Yahoo properties for June 2008 based on internet visits, Yahoo! Search was just a mere third trailing behind Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo main portal. Yahoo Search got a mere 12% share of the total number of visitors going to Yahoo's properties for the said month.

Microsoft Live Search's Australian partner ninemsn is reportedly having a contest right now to promote the use of Live Search, and among the prizes of the said contest was none other than an iPod Nano. The contest goes something like this. Everytime you conduct a search using ninemsn's live search , three cards from a set of five cards will flip open to reveal a secret prize. If three of the cards that flipped revealed the same prize, you get that prize.

Yesterday, we told you that Google will be making Flash contents searchable in cooperation with Adobe. Now, we found through a video interview with R.J. Pittman, Google's Director of Product Management for Consumer Search Properties, that Google will also be working on image processing technology to effectively search and organize the web's trillion of images. Of course, we know the underlying purposes of this,

Both Google and Yahoo in coordination with Adobe is finally making it easier for webmasters to make Flash contents on their site searchable by search engines' crawlers. Where as before, webmasters have to do some special arrangements with their Flash content to make it indexable by the search engines' crawlers. For Google, their search engine will index textual content of SWF files including Flash gadgets - such as buttons or menus, self-contained Flash websites,

Expectedly, now that Google has relaunched DoubleClick's Performics ad affiliate network as the new Google Affiliate Network , there's no point in maintaining the Adsense Referrals Program anymore. So,  Google Adsense has just sent an official email to )I suppose( all Adsense members informing us that Google is retiring the Adsense Referrals Program starting the last week of August.

When Google acquired DoubleClick , the company has brought with it its affiliate ad network program called Performics. But Google never did something to push Performics as one of its advertising program, until now. Google has renamed Performics as the Google Affiliate Network , and Amazon with its popular Affiliate Marketing Network called Amazon Associates have something to worry about. The Google Affiliate Network works like your ordinary affiliate ad network,

When Google acquired DoubleClick , the company has brought with it its affiliate ad network program called Performics. But Google never did something to push Performics as one of its advertising program, until now. Google has renamed Performics as the Google Affiliate Network , and Amazon with its popular Affiliate Marketing Network called Amazon Associates have something to worry about. The Google Affiliate Network works like your ordinary affiliate ad network,

Remember Adsense for Videos which debuted not so long ago? We haven't heard too much about this new form of placing Google paid ads since it was launched, until now. The NYT is reporting about the agreement between Google and Seth MacFarlane, creator of TV program "Family Guy", who is embarking on new animation series made for internet only, called "Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy.

Here you go, 10 search-related service for all your Twittering needs. Search for Twitter profiles, Twitter discussion, Twitter followings and what-have-yous. If you know of other Twitter search-related service/apps that we've missed, please let us know by leaving a comment. We'll gladly add them to the list.

Billionaire turned blogger Carl Icahn explains why he has not posted anything about his proxy battle against Yahoo in his newly established personal blog . At this time, due to SEC regulations, I do not intend to post your comments regarding the proxy fight. However, I am planning to give you my views about Yahoo and its management shortly. If you wish to be informed I invite you to subscribe . Stay tuned.

Any day now, we might as well expect some new changes in the iGoogle design. If you would recall, sometime in Apri, Google has already announced the new version of iGoogle. Google has also picked several user-developer to test out the new iGoogle design. If you're using iGoogle you would soon have cluster of tabso n the left hand side of the iGoogle. You can expand this tabs to reveal the list of gadgets and status information.

Whether this is true or just plain rumor, we'll let you decide. Venture Beat is reporting a scoop on a possible Microsoft acquisition deal of semantic search engine Powerset . Microsoft 's offer? - a whooping $100 million. Actually, we wouldn't be surprise if Microsoft will indeed buy Powerset since we all know that it has been struggling so hard in the web search department, always lagging behind Google and Yahoo.

If you've been hesitating to entrust your personal health records to online health providers and insurers, perhaps the newly launched C ommon Framework for Networked Personal Health Information would convince you otherwise. The Health Information standard which was negotiated by Markle Foundation, a New York-based nonprofit group that focuses on uses for information technology, gained the support of Google, Microsoft and other online health care players.

If not for Cenzic's CIA [Cenzic Intelligent Analysis] Research Lab which notified Yahoo on May 23 that Yahoo Mail is facing serious risk from online attackers due to a Cross Site Scripting )XSS( vulnerability, millions of Yahoo mail users might have been victimized already. XSS flaws are said to be the most common and risky vulnerability encountered by Web-based applications which when not fixed immediately,

Yahoo! )represented by Board Chairmen Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang( has sent a letter to their Shareholders, to finally clear things on what's has been really going on with regards to the "alleged renewed talks" happening between Yahoo and Microsoft.

After giving us a useful tool for monitoring unique site traffic , Google is treating AdWords members and other ad media planners with an equally useful Ad Planner tool. The Google Ad Planner , is a research and media planning tool that bridges the gap between advertisers and publishers. If you're an Adwords member you can use the Ad Planner to find out which sites you're audience is more likely to visit.

Right after announcing about Google Trends for Website, Jonathan Simons of the Google Webmaster Teams announced that they are opening the Google Webmaster Tools for third-party integration with the release of its API. For the initial version of the Webmaster Tools API , the Google Webmaster Team has made the following features available to third-party developers and webmasters: Managing Sites - to retrieve a list of your sites in Webmaster Tools,

Google's search trends analytics - Google Trends has just added a new feature called Google Trends for Website. If Google trends measures and displays statistics for search keywords in Google whether by specific time frame or even search trends as hot as today )hot trends(, Google Trends for website displays traffic for a particular website over a specified time frame. Google Trends for Website gives traffic statistics similar to Compete, Alexa and comScore.

Top Microsoft officials has expressed that the company is not going on a buying spree of other internet properties after it's bid failed to reach a Yahoo-Microsoft deal.Amidst the rumors that Microsoft is planning to acquire some other targets such as Facebook, AOL among other smaller internet properties, Microsoft's Steve Balmer said that analysts don't really know what they are talking about.

The Google News Blog is reporting that something new is about to come up with Google News. The Google News Team is testing something and will be running a few magic tricks and the post even hinted about something related to "look and feel" of the Google News site. If you're one of the few randomly selected readers, we'll be glad to receive a tip off.