By Search News Desk  "Advertising on Google.com is contextual, requires no personally identifiable information, is not provided by a third-party, and does not collect any information in addition to the basic information collected to provide search results," asserts Google's Director of Public Policy and Go... Aug. 12, 2008 10:30 AM Reads: 578 Replies: 1 |
By Search News Desk  Is Google’s senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer David Drummond, about to become the head of a dedicated Venture Capital division of Google? The Wall Street Journal seems to think so - adding that Google has hired William Maris, a former Web hosting ... Jul. 31, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 430 |
By Search News Desk  'Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index much more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user,' said Tom Costello, CEO and co-founder of Cuil, a new search offering that claims to have indexed 120 billion Web pages... Jul. 28, 2008 07:30 PM Reads: 2,630 |
By Search News Desk  Shareholder activist Carl Icahn has joined the Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. Jerry Yang remains in place as CEO. Two further seats will be filled by two people from a list of nine candidates recommended by Icahn. Jul. 21, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 1,523 |
By Search News Desk That anti-Microsoft pair, IBM and Google, are kicking in $20 million-$25 million apiece for hardware, software and services to spread the gospel of 'cloud computing' in the academe. They want budding computer scientists to learn how to write Internet-scale programs that process trillio... Jul. 17, 2008 04:45 PM Reads: 12,580 Replies: 1 |
By Search News Desk 'BOSS opens up the playing field for developers and companies to disrupt the search market, become principals in search and build new Web search experiences that offer more choice for users,' said Prabhakar Raghavan, chief strategist for Yahoo! Search, as Yahoo! Inc. yesterday introduc... Jul. 11, 2008 06:15 AM Reads: 2,598 |
By Search News Desk 'We're excited to announce that we've reached an agreement to acquire Powerset, a San Francisco-based search and natural language company,' Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Senior Vice President, Search, Portal, and Advertising announced last week, adding that Powerset would join Microsoft's... Jul. 7, 2008 07:45 AM Reads: 1,344 |
By Search News Desk In a new study on Findability to be released by AIIM, 49% of survey respondents 'agreed' or 'strongly agreed' that it is a difficult and time consuming process to find the information they need to do their job. The new survey of over 500 businesses conducted in May 2008, suspects that ... Jun. 17, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 884 |
By Search News Desk Although Yahoo announced on April 9 that it was conducting a test with Google to rely on Google to sell its search ads, the company's executives - according to a Reuters report this morning - previously dismissed a search-advertising deal with Google 'due to antitrust concerns.' That w... Jun. 12, 2008 04:15 AM Reads: 3,581 |
By Search News Desk  SYS-CON Media Website (www.sys-con.com) and email servers were affected from Saturday's explosion at The Planet hosting facility together with 9,000 servers which belonged to more than 7,500 customers. SYS-CON has been hosting its image server and email servers at the facility. At the ... Jun. 3, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 3,265 Replies: 1 |
By Search News Desk SYS-CON Media Website (www.sys-con.com) and email servers were affected from Saturday's explosion at The Planet hosting facility together with 9,000 servers which belonged to more than 7,500 customers. SYS-CON has been hosting its image server and email servers at the facility. At the ... Jun. 3, 2008 03:30 PM Reads: 2,277 |
By Search News Desk In an effort to buy itself time to head off corporate raider Carl Icahn's mission to nominate a slate of completely new directors for the search giant, Yahoo has made an SEC filing saying that its July 3 AGM is postponed till the end of July. One of its current ten directors, Edward Ko... May. 23, 2008 05:00 AM Reads: 2,810 |
By Search News Desk 'Wikipedia is a great way for us to showcase Powerset's functionality while giving people a faster time to satisfaction,' said Barney Pell, co-founder and CTO of Powerset, as his company today unveiled a publicly available beta product that according to Pell reinvents how users search ... May. 12, 2008 05:15 AM Reads: 3,581 |
By Search News Desk Monday morning before the markets open Bloomberg reported 'Yahoo, that spent three months fighting a takeover by Microsoft, tumbled $6.37 to $22.30. The software maker said this weekend it walked away when Yahoo demanded $37 a share. Microsoft had increased its $44.6 billion bid by abo... May. 6, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 7,200 |
By Search News Desk  Despite meeting yesterday, the Microsoft Board of Directors - according to the Wall St. Journal - has not decided whether its $31 a share offer for Yahoo!, which has fallen in value to $29 a share in line with a fall in Microsoft's own stock value, should be hoisted to $33 a share in a... May. 1, 2008 06:45 AM Reads: 4,236 |
By Search News Desk  Just a month after Google closed its $3.4BN acquisition of ad sales management firm DoubleClick, Yahoo! has taken the wraps off its 'Apex' project and said that it will be called AMP! - described as 'a faster, easier, and more automated and integrated way to create, buy, and sell adver... Apr. 7, 2008 04:45 AM Reads: 5,246 |
By Search News Desk  'It is unfortunate that by choosing not to enter into substantive negotiations with us, you have failed to give due consideration to a transaction that has tremendous benefits for Yahoo!'s shareholders and employees,' thundered Microsoft's Steve Ballmer yesterday in a letter to the Boa... Apr. 6, 2008 04:00 AM Reads: 4,983 Replies: 4 |
By Search News Desk The $31 a share offer for Yahoo! that Microsoft made on Jan. 31 was 62% higher than Yahoo!'s closing price the day before the offer was disclosed. So with the Fed Chairman saying the U.S. may be in a recession after losses tied to the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, it would ... Apr. 5, 2008 06:15 AM Reads: 4,433 Replies: 1 |
By Search News Desk 'While at Google, we learned to develop products that were simple to use, free for users, and clean of annoying advertising,' says Dan Daugherty, President and CEO of rentBits, a new nationwide search engine for rentals. 'rentBits has all of these qualities and this beta release is jus... Mar. 12, 2008 08:15 AM Reads: 1,769 |
By Search News Desk  Google closed on its $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick this morning a couple of hours after the European Commission, as expected, waved the hackles-raising merger through. US authorities blessed the merger in December. The EC said the merger was 'unlikely' to harm consumers eithe... Mar. 11, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 2,784 |
By Search News Desk The final hurdle in the completion of its deal to buy Doubleclick has now been overcome by Google: European regulators have today cleared its $3.1BN bid. Eric Schmidt, writing in the Official Google Blog, admitted 'As with most mergers, there may be reductions in headcount' - and Googl... Mar. 11, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 3,433 |
By Search News Desk  Google has blown a new cloud over Redmond's way to rain on Microsoft's SharePoint collaboration server - even if it has a ways to go before being recognized as a thunderhead. The cloud is called Google Sites. It's a googlized version of the JotSpot start-up's wiki widgetry that Google ... Mar. 5, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 2,607 |
By Search News Desk 'Google and Opera have established a valuable relationship over the years and we look forward to continued collaboration on mobile products,' said Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera, as Opera today made Google the default search engine in its mobile Web browsers. 'We're excited to extend ... Feb. 27, 2008 05:45 AM Reads: 4,801 |
By Search News Desk  'When you start to have companies that control the operating system, control the browsers, they really tie up the top Web sites, and can be used to manipulate stuff in various ways. I think that's unnerving.' That, according to Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin, is what might face the Inte... Feb. 22, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 4,523 |
By Search News Desk  'We sent them a letter and said we think that's a fair offer,' Bill Gates has been telling an Associated Press reporter, referring of course to the February 1 proposal Microsoft made to the Yahoo! board of directors to acquire the company for $44.6BN. Gates made the comments during a c... Feb. 19, 2008 07:00 AM Reads: 5,070 Replies: 1 |
By Search News Desk  Is Yahoo! too large a company to force into Microsoft's ways? That's the question asked this morning by The New York Times, whose correspondents John Markoff and Matt Richtel report a Silicon Valley executive as declaring that, when it comes to overall technology mindsets, Microsoft an... Feb. 18, 2008 07:00 AM Reads: 5,688 |
By Search News Desk Whistling past the graveyard, Yahoo! went ahead Tuesday with its thin, pre-Microsoft plans of canning a thousand non-core people worldwide in an attempt to get the firm growing in the right direction. The number actually turned out to be more like 1,100 but far from what it would take ... Feb. 17, 2008 04:45 PM Reads: 2,681 |
By Search News Desk On Monday Rupert Murdoch was reported as assuring the financial press that News Corporation would not be making a counter-bid for Yahoo! but yesterday came new reports that discussions are taking place about integrating Yahoo! with News Corp's Internet assets. The idea, according to Te... Feb. 14, 2008 08:45 AM Reads: 6,264 Replies: 1 |
By Search News Desk T-Mobile has announced that it is likely to make Yahoo! oneSearch the exclusive search engine in all eleven of its European markets. The company is the twenty-sixth mobile carrier to sign a major deal with Yahoo! and displaces arch-rival Google as T-Mobile's preferred search engine. Feb. 13, 2008 07:00 AM Reads: 5,517 |
By Search News Desk Tuesday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang sent out his second company-wide e-mail since Microsoft made its unsolicited $44.5 billion bid for Yahoo, a message that made it into an SEC filing Wednesday. He said the same thing he said before: 'No decisions have been made about Microsoft's proposal.' ... Feb. 8, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 6,339 |
By Search News Desk The Yahoo Board is supposed to convene today to thrash out whether or not to accept Microsoft?s $44.6 billion acquisition offer, try to get Microsoft to sweeten the pot, or resist and hammer out an outsourcing deal with Google, according to TechCrunch. Feb. 8, 2008 11:45 AM Reads: 2,026 |
By Search News Desk Portal Promoter is a completed search engine submission, optimization and search engine marketing platform will guarantee your success online it is truly a Dynamic SEO solution. Portal Promoter web interface combines all the powerful search engine optimization and submission tools in o... Feb. 1, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 2,678 |
By Search News Desk  Weaker-than-expected ad spending in the financial, travel and retail areas led to a 23% decline in fourth-quarter net income for Yahoo! to $205.7 million, or 15 cents a share, from $268.7 million, or 19 cents, a year earlier, the company said yesterday. It announced its first layoffs s... Jan. 31, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 9,723 Replies: 2 |
By Search News Desk  The Web needs fixing. The standards and recommendations that define the Web were last revised in 1999. Since then, the Web has grown from a document retrieval system into an application delivery system. We have made significant progress since then, due to the cleverness of the Web deve... Jan. 25, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 4,705 |
By Search News Desk Yahoo is planning to lay off hundreds of workers in an effort to cut costs and revive the company's core business, according to reports in several media outlets Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal, New York Times reported Tuesday that the company is preparing to lay off workers in an effo... Jan. 22, 2008 08:45 PM Reads: 3,962 |
By Search News Desk A coalition of educators, foundations, and internet pioneers today urged governments and publishers to make publicly-funded educational materials available freely over the internet. Jan. 22, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 2,435 |
By Search News Desk CMS Watch rejected the snowball of hype suggesting that Google Analytics and Omniture are the only remaining solid choices for Web Analytics. For mid-sized and larger enterprises in particular, and buyers in the UK and Europe, there are many established vendors who can provide advanced... Jan. 15, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 3,231 |
By Search News Desk Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia anyone can edit, celebrates its seventh birthday. Founded on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia has become of the world's ten most visited websites, and the fastest growing, most current, and largest encyclopedia ever created. Currently, the website has... Jan. 15, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 2,847 |
By Search News Desk Yahoo! released the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI) as a free, open-source JavaScript and CSS library eighteen months ago along with a commitment to the developer community: We'll share with you our best frontend tools, engage with you about how they're built and why, and we'll docu... Jan. 15, 2008 07:15 AM Reads: 6,804 |
By Search News Desk  The release yesterday of an Alpha version of Jimmy Wales's new Wikia Search project underwhelmed critics. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch called it a 'complete letdown' and even BusinessWeek.com noted that 'Preliminary testing of the site...produced disappointing results consistent wit... Jan. 8, 2008 04:45 AM Reads: 4,614 |
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