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Friday, June 20th, 2008With Google and Yahoo ad deal on hold, regulators will be asking the industry how much competition matters in search.
Many financial analysts have greeted Yahoo’s ad deal with Google as the first real sign of life to come from the beleaguered Web pioneer since it spurned Microsoft’s takeover bid.
In Washington, however, government regulators and lawmakers [...]
What’s Cooking in Google’s Enterprise Labs?
Friday, June 20th, 2008Google’s enterprise strategy isn’t much different than the consumer side when it comes to giving users an early look at services in development.
Newsflash: Google isn’t your typical enterprise software company.
The search giant that’s made billions off its consumer online services has some unique ideas for attracting enterprise customers. Selling to corporations is usually a long, [...]
Yahoo: Flashback To The Good Days
Friday, June 20th, 2008Today is Jerry Yang’s first anniversary as CEO of the company he founded. There will be lots of bad news coming out about the company in the coming weeks as more executives depart, Yahoo releases quarterly earnings and Google and Microsoft continue to play tug-of-war with the company’s remaining assets.
So as a brief interlude, we [...]
Comscore May Search Data: Google, Yahoo Up; Microsoft Slides
Friday, June 20th, 2008Click image above for a larger view. Comscore has released its May search market share numbers (prior data through April is here).
Key points: Google and Yahoo edged higher in search share to 61.8% and 20.4%, respectively. That’s the first up month for Yahoo this year.
Microsoft dropped from 9.1% to 8.5% for the month. It’s important [...]
Tracking Former Yahoo Execs - Where Are They Now?
Friday, June 20th, 2008Out of pure curiosity we started tracking Yahoo execs who’ve left the company since January 2007. It’s hard to believe, but at least fifty of them have bailed out in the last year and a half.
Some went to work for Google. Others went to startups. Many just left without saying what’s next.
We aren’t able to [...]
Build Your Own Semantic Search Engine With Hakia’s APIs
Friday, June 20th, 2008Want to create your own semantic search engine, but just don’t have the PhDs? Semantic search engine Hakia is opening up APIs to let anyone build their own semantic search application on top of its technology. Hakia looks at the meaning of Web pages and matches search queries using its own quality index of trusted, [...]
Google App Engine Goes Down and Stays Down
Friday, June 20th, 2008Google App Engine, which launched in April to compete with Amazon’s web services unit, has been having major problems over the last day. Currently, the application directory and, more importantly, all third party applications (here’s our test application), are offline. Developers cannot even log in to the management console.
Google hasn’t responded yet to a request [...]
Flickr Co-founders Join Mass Exodus From Yahoo
Friday, June 20th, 2008Photo sharing site Flickr is one of the leading lights of Yahoo - but cofounders (and husband/wife team) Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield won’t be around to keep driving the product forward. They are both joining the mass exodus of executives from the company.
Fake officially left last Friday. Butterfield (who still officially runs Flickr) will [...]
Happy One Year Anniversary, Jerry
Friday, June 20th, 2008Tomorrow marks Jerry Yang’s one year anniversary of his first day as CEO of Yahoo.
What a year it’s been. Yahoo failed to sell itself to Microsoft, handed its search marketing business to Google, and lost nearly all of its key executives. It’s shareholders are in open revolt, and the board appears to be ignoring the [...]
Not So Social: Google And Facebook Face-Off At Supernova
Friday, June 20th, 2008Today at the Supernova conference there was a panel about who owns the social graph. The panelists were Kevin Marks from Google, Joseph Smarr from Plaxo and Dave Morin, Facebook’s Senior Platform Manager. The conversation turned very interesting when moderator Tantek Celik pointed out a post by David Recordon that showed how Facebook is blocking [...]
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