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Free Cash: Find a Bug in Google Chrome
Everybody wants free money, right? Well, heres one way to get it: find a bug in Google Chrome or Chromium, the open source code database behind the browser.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2010-02-01

Q4 Results Show Things Looking up for Yahoo
Things might be looking up for Yahoo, which just posted its best quarter since Carol Bartz took the reins a year ago. They earned $153 million (11 cents per share) in Q4...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2010-01-28

Chinese Govt Denies Involvement in Hacking...
...Did US Govt Help Instead? China has officially, adamantly denied that the government played any role in the recent hack attack against Google and dozens of other firms...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2010-01-26

Boing Boing Bing: Was Bing Up or Down for Dec?
Two out of three online measurement firms agree: Bing lost ground in December. Experian Hitwise and Nielsen saw Bings search share decrease from November, while comScore...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2010-01-21

Google Postpones Phone for China
In light of the . . . difficulties Google is anticipating in China, theyve decided to postpone the launch of their planned Nexus One phone in China.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2010-01-20

Google Bows to Government's Censorship Orders - in Australia?
Google has been criticized for censoring search results, even it was the only way they could get into certain countries, such as China. But as they're abandoning that approach in China, are they picking it up elsewhere? Search Google Australia for -aboriginal and encyclopedia-, and you'll find an interesting message at the end of the page.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2010-01-19

German Companies Filing Anti-Trust Actions against Google
So it only takes one high-ranking government official calling Google a monopoly to have German companies jump on an anti-trust bandwagon, eh? Who'dathunkit?
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2010-01-19

China Reminds Others: Don't Get Any Ideas
Google has decided to stop censoring its search results in China as mandated by the Chinese government - even if that means shuttering their search business there. The Chinese government has responded, reminding us all that theyre in control of the Internet in China, and nobody else should get any ideas from Googles ploy.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2010-01-15

Google Bucking Chinese After Cyber Attack
Google has long complied with the government-mandated censorship required to operate in China, despite criticism from human rights and freedom of speech advocates. However, Google may be changing their tune, based on a blog post yesterday. Googles new approach to China is far more open - and at least partially because a Chinese cyber attack...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2010-01-14

Want Your Tweets on Google? Get More (Better) Followers
Back in October, Google was second to the punch, falling behind Bing as they both announced real-time search deals to include Twitter results. (And it didnt help that Bing...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2010-01-14

Google Didn't Lie After All
Two weeks ago, it looked like Google might have been...well, fibbing. Back in June, the search engine announced that they would no longer redistribute link juice around nofollowed links...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2010-01-13

Google Applies to Enter Energy Market
Its been more than two years since Googles last big big to enter a government-regulated offline business. They offered some $4.6B for wireless spectrum in an auction in 2008...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2010-01-12

Yahoo to Keep BOSS under Microsoft
And I dont mean job security for Carol Bartz. Yahoos BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is a popular, free way for developers to access the Yahoo index and to...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2010-01-11

Google's Beating Apple - But Not Where You'd Expect
In all the hubbub of the Nexus One premiere this week, another Google milestone has gone largely unnoticed. (Even I saw the headline earlier this week, but opted to cover a Nexus story instead.)
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2010-01-08

Google Edging into Travel Again
Six months ago, Google launched Google City Tours. A Labs product for Google Maps, City Tours was based around pedestrian sight-seeing, with maps, walking times and sight suggestions.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-12-30

Bing/"Bee-ying" Eyeing China
Bing is eyeing the biggest Internet market in the world"China. Still in beta in China, Bee-ying was launched back in June without the marketing push and fanfare enjoyed in the US...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-12-30

Is Personalized Search Killing AdSense Publishers?
Earlier this month, Google announced that its Personalized Search results would come to even computers that werent signed in to Google accounts. With the opt-out system in place...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-12-28

Consumer Groups Lobby FTC to Block GoogleMob
Early last month, Google announced it was acquiring AdMob for $750M. The deal is still in the works, of course - in part, at least, because the FTC is taking a first and, as of last week...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-12-28

Google Work at Home Scammer Settling Suit
Earlier this month, Google revealed it was filing suit against Pacific WebWorks (and other yet-to-be-named parties) for infringing on its trademark. Pacific WebWorks was among...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-12-23

Google to Acquire DocVerse
According to TechCrunch sources, Google is nearing the final stages of an agreement to acquire DocVerse, real-time Microsoft Office collaboration software company founded...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-12-22

Google to Bow to Switzerland's Street View Wishes
Google Street View began its European adventure a while ago -- and its been met with resistance in more than a few places. Switzerland, like several other countries, was concerned...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-12-21

It's Coming: the Google Chrome OS Netbook
Last month, there was a minor furor over Googles Chrome OS. The rumors were flying that it was about to launch and you could run it on a netbook before Thanksgiving. Of course, that wasnt quite the case...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-12-18

Google's Blogger Integrates with Amazon Associates
Back in April, Google added a Monetize tab within Blogger to help its users earn money from AdSense on their site and in their feeds. Now theyre adding a new feature to that stable...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-12-17

Fix Cross-Domain Duplicate Content
Back in February, Google, Yahoo and then-Live premiered a solution to on-site duplicate content: a canonical URL element that let you designate which version official word was...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-12-17

Google Wants Access to Your Private Social Networks
Googles Marissa Mayer talked with the Telegraph recently about her vision for Googles future"and not surprisingly, she has an expansive vision for what information Google...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-12-16

Google Suggest on Steroids

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2009-12-15

Hitwise: Google Gets >71% of Searches

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2009-12-11

AOL vs Yahoo-Again
Its been a long time doming, but now its officially, truly, official: AOL is part of Time Warner no more. (Technically, actually, AOL bought Time Warner -- isnt that weird?
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-12-11

Yahoo Moving in on Twitter
Yahoo (moves toward the little blue bird, the center of attention at the party): Well, hello there, baby. You sure are popular here. Twitter (BIG SMILE): Yep! And I have #friends @overthere and @overthere and...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-12-11

Google Changing Online News with
In case youve been . . . I dont know, asleep for the last two years, you probably realize that the Internet is changing the way people get their news. Newspapers are having...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-12-09

Microsoft and Yahoo Seal the Deal

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2009-12-08

Yahoo Lets Users Customize Ads
Yahoos taking ad targeting to a whole new level with its new Ad Interest Manager. Now advertisers arent the only ones who can target you -- you can target yourself, too!
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-12-08

Twitter Integrates into Google Friend Connect

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2009-12-07

Bing Wants In with the In Crowd
Two years ago, Microsoft bought a 1.6% share of Facebook for $240M. In exchange, Microsoft Live (and now Bing) provided web search for the most popular social network...
InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2009-12-04

What Makes People Love Google?
In a word: branding. As a brand, both through their own efforts and through sheer luck, Google has been able to position itself as the #1 online brand in the US according to Forrester Research. Others among the top ten, including Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft, have generated some of the same emotional responses from their fans.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-11-20

Google Proposes New Book Deal Settlement

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2009-11-17

Google Testing Skippable Ads in YouTube Videos
Online ads might be working well for news sites, but YouTube is always looking for a bigger piece of the online video advertising pie. As of today, Google is testing skippable ads...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-11-12

Bada Bing! Bing Adds New Video and SERP Features
Microsoft has announced several new features for its rebranded search engine - I mean, decision engine - Bing, including the rollout of Bing Videos, a partnership with Wolfram Alpha...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-11-12

Real Time Search Coming to Mobile
Real time and local mobile search are two of the major hot spots in search today. and now theyre coming together. Weve heard more and more about OneRiot now that their rumored...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-11-11

Does Reframe It Have Just Cause To Sue Google?
About a year ago, Reframe It launched a product that allowed web users to add public (or private) comments on any part of any website, using a side pane in the browser. According to the users choice, the comments would be available for later visitors to that website to see and respond to.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-11-09

Google Friend Connect Gets Personal
Google Friend Connect can help convert any site into a Google-supported social network. In addition to allowing members of your site to send each other private messages, now Google is...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-11-05

Turkey Suing Google for $47M in Back Taxes
Dear World: Google is advertising in your countries. Duh. Turkey has recently determined that Google owes them $47M US (71M Turkish lira) in back taxes on advertising sold in Turkey. The government maintains that because Google sells advertising in Turkey and maintains an office and registered subsidiary in the country.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-11-04

Local Mobile Search: They'll Be Watching You
Local mobile search is heating up. The powerful combination of GPS location and user input creates a golden opportunity for accurate, local, useful information to break out in a big way.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-11-04

Where Can Google Be Beaten?
Ad Age today summarize the state of the search engine marketing industry - and its largely good, including the fact that weve weathered the recession well so far, weve seen tremendous growth over our lifespan and most marketers are convinced of, interested in or doing SEM in some form. Naturally, the report focuses on the elephant in the room...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-11-03

China Accuses Google of Censorship (Seriously)

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2009-10-30

Yahoo's Time on Homepage Up 20% Since Redesign
Back in July, Yahoo premiered the latest version of their homepage. The two biggest differences were the ability to personalize apps to add content to the homepage, and ditching dozens...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-10-30

YaToo: Y! Going Real Time

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2009-10-29

Google Rolling Out Social Search (in Labs)
There are two brass rings in search these days: real time and social. Google (and Bing) have been working on the real time thing with Twitter, and last week Google announced they were working on a Social Search option in Labs"and now its out.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-10-28

Google Reader Adds More Suggestions and MAGIC!
No, seriously, they added magic. As youve probably noticed today, Google Reader has added a few new features. The first is the Explore section, just below the People you follow section.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-10-26

Yahoo Net Income Up and Revenue Down

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2009-10-21

Bing/Yahoo Deal Needs Approval from DoJ
It hardly seems possible, but it was just last year that the Goohoo (Yahoogle?) search ad deal was under scrutiny from the US government. Ultimately, that scrutiny killed the deal"since the DoJ informed Google that theyd face anti-trust charges if they went through with the deal. Here we are, a year later, and two search giants are once again bringing a proposed search...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-10-21

Mobile Google Wave
In case youve forgotten, Google Wave is that cool new email-is-so-last-century communication method. Currently in invitation-only beta, some have...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-10-20

YouTube Real Time
Real time search is hot (theoretically), but Google is struggling to deliver results. Theyve started some real-time stuff in Gmail, though, with interactive...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-10-19

Google VS Kindle
Googles been saying theyre entering the eBook arena since June. While their Google Books offerings were clearly part of the plan, it hasnt always...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-10-16

Yahoo, It's You!
Last month, Yahoo announced the slogan for its new advertising blitz (perhaps hoping to replicate Bings blip of search share success): Its You! On September 28, they premiered the first TV commercial for that campaign. In our totally nonscientific comments section, people were 2:1 against the ad, either because it didnt sell Yahoos products or because the commercial sucks.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-10-15

Google is Number 1 Worldwide
What do you get when you analyze nearly 300 quadrillion megabytes of Internet traffic? Aside from really tired, I mean. Well, if youre Arbor Networks, you...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-10-14

Google Cloudboarding?
Were always on the hunt for Googles next big thing. This weeks report is from Google Operating System, whos found an internal tool that might roll out to all users.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-10-08

Google Added Some New Search Options

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2009-10-02

Google Translate for Your Website
Google has long been working on their machine translation offerings. Over last year, theyve added translation services to Google Reader...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-10-02

100,000 Testers for Google Wave
Im certainly jealous. Google first showed off its new integrated communications platform, Google Wave, back at Google I/O in May. When I first heard...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-09-30

Strip Parameters from URLs with Google
Two years ago, Yahoo heard requests from SMX Advanced attendees and added a Dynamic URL Rewriting feature to Yahoo Site Explorer, allowing...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-09-18

Google Search Ads with More Video
March 2008, we first saw video live in Google search ads. However, 18 months later, video ads are still scarce in the SERPs. But maybe Googles rethinking that, according to a Reuters report about a conference call yesterday. Google is looking at changes in their search ads: Our search ads have largely looked the same over the course of the past seven or eight years, said Nick Fox...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-09-10

Yahoo Stock Sold by Bartz
Carl Icahns recent Yahoo stock dump didnt cause too much alarm"although he took a $125M loss, he still retains 4.5% of the company (and his board seats).
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-09-09

Google Street View with Local Listings
Google Maps uses has two features that have lived side by side for a while: local business listings and Street View. Although Google Maps would let...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-08-28

Google Docs Now Translates
Google continues to work on its machine translation"both the quality of the translations and the number of their products using it. In the last year, theyve added translation to the Google Toolbar and Google Reader, and now Google Docs joins the translating fold. To translate a document into one of the 42 offered languages, open it and go to Tools>Translate document.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-08-28

Bing and Yahoo, Struggling?
Microsoft rebranded and relaunched its search decision engine yet again in June with Bing. Since then, their marking onslaught has paid...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-08-26

Yahoo Wins Over Google?
Apparently someone clued the NYT in to the fact that Yahoo Finance is pretty popular. In fact, Yahoo Finance has been the #1 finance site for over a year...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-08-25

Google Was Once the Most Satisfying
In a survey conducted before Bing launched, Google was the most satisfying search engine, according to Search Engine Land. The American Customer...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-08-19

Ads Don't Affect Conversion
Believe it or not, Google has come out with new data to indicate that ad position doesnt affect conversation rates for a single ad. Googles Chief Economist...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-08-19

Yahoo - Look Over There!
Not to be all Wizard-of-Oz on us, but Yahoo really doesnt want us to pay attention to the man behind the curtain (Steve Ballmer). No, they want...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-08-05

Yahoo With New SERPs
Just two weeks ago, Yahoo unveiled a new homepage. The biggest changes seemed to be personalized data and a bit more streamlined...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-08-04

Yahoo HotJobs For Sale?

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2009-07-22

Not All Good with Google Earnings
Last week, we highlighted the good news from Googles Q2 earnings report"they beat expectations and they expect YouTube to be profitable soon.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-07-21

YouTube Soon to be Profitable
In its earnings call last night, Google says things are looking up. After a slightly disappointing Q1, Google beat expectations, although its revenue is still growing slowly.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-07-20

Big Bountiful Bing
Compete has already weighed in on traffic to Microsofts new Bing for its first month. Now comScore is joining the big Bing parade: the new search...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-07-16

More Social Google Reader
Google has pushed more and more social features in its apps. Theyve converted our contact lists into friend lists, theyve added notes to shared items, theyve even moved the conversation that normally takes place in the comments onto Google Reader itself. And now Google Reader is getting even more social with its latest additions: following your friends and liking stories.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-07-16

Google Calendar Gmail Labs
A year ago, Gmail added a lab to introduce optional and experimental features. If you were worried about the future of Gmail Labs when Gmail finally...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-07-15

Real Estate on Google
Real estate sites like Zillow and Trulia have been hard at work for the last few years, offering social features to house hunters and homeowners.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-07-08

Google Apps Drop the Beta
Yes, its true. Just five short years after its launch, and just months after they caught the most recent round of flak for the extended testing period, Gmail is finally losing the Beta label today, as are all of Google Apps, including Calendar, Docs, and Talk. Oddly enough, the list of unbetaed apps coincides exactly with the list of betaed apps TechCrunch was complaining about in May.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-07-08

Google Taking Charge on AdWords Scams
Youve probably seen the Make Money on Google ads floating around the Internet these days. (Or maybe not. . . .) The banner ads are one thing...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-07-07

Search Ads Not as Helpful as Newspaper and TV
The results of a new poll from Harris Interactive indicate that Internet advertising isnt as effective as search engine marketers would like to think.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-07-06

Google YouTube Partners
You know how they say Timing is everything? Well, apparently so does Google. Less than a week after the head of Dow Jones whines about...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-07-02

FeedBurner Customization
FeedBurner, an RSS management utility that was purchased by Google a few years ago, has long offered an RSS-to-email service.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-07-02

Google's Competition and the Future
Competition is just a click away, Google Senior Competition Counsel Dana Wagner reminds us. We are in an industry that is...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-06-30

Yahoo Rebranding by Bartz
Since taking the helm at Yahoo in January, CEO Carol Bartz has consistently emphasized one of Yahoos greatest strengths: its brand. But now they may be changing all that"literally. According to BoomTown, Yahoo is looking to revamp its worldwide fortunes with a major rebranding. But for once the companys strength might be working against it. Says BoomTown:
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-06-26

Paid Clicks Still Up with Bing

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2009-06-25

Social Semantic Search
And we dont mean Hakias social network. Yet another semantic search startup is trying to leverage the power of social networking"but this time not...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-06-24

More Spam For Yahoo

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2009-06-16

Lycos Search is Back?
Dont you just hate it when someone doesnt know theyre dead? Lycos Europe insists that its feeling much better after spending the last two years...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-06-11

Words About Bing from Google and Yahoo
Surprise, surprise: already this week, weve seen Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz dinging new rival Bing in an interview with Fox Business Network. But apparently theyre not through. In an interview with the same network, Google CEO Eric Schmidt offers his own completely unbiased criticism of the minor upstart of a rival: "Its not the first entry for Microsoft. They do this about once a year..."
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-06-11

Yahoo Search and AOL Deal
Over sixteen months after Microsofts first offer to Yahoo, many people in the tech world are still watching them, waiting with bated breath. Will they or wont they?
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-06-09

Better Navigation for Google Street View

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2009-06-08

Google PageRank Sculpting & Paid JavaScript Links
PageRank sculpting is an advanced SEO technique that gained popularity in 2007, when Matt Cutts pointed out Google was using rel=nofollow to control which...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-06-04

Google Blogger Adds Search Box
One of the major usability issues with Google Blogger has long been making the millions of blogs hosted on the service searchable on an individual basis.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-06-03

AdSense Link Units: Image Ads Added
Using AdSense Link Units? The block of links to related-topic ad pages are getting a new feature after testing showed positive results...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-05-28

SearchWiki Gets Sort of Social
There was a minor uproar last November when Google introduced its SearchWiki feature, allowing users to personalize SERPs by moving...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-05-27

Google Tinkering with Blog Search
Googles working on its Blog Search behind the scenes, according to emails from the head of the search quality group in Googles New York office, Jeremy Hylton...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-05-18

Google Temporarily Unavailable
To some people, it was the first sign of the apocalypse: Google was down. Yes, the Google and yes, actually down. (You can see why this might look like the beginning of the end.) As with many end-of-days scares, however, this one proved to be a false alarm. Yes, Google was actually down, but the world did not end, as was supposed .
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-05-15

Google Gets New SERPs
Its Googles second Searchology event this week, and theyre looking to make big headlines this time around. The first event, two years ago, heralded Universal Search...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-05-13

Google Getting Twitterpated?
With the media-sweetheart microblogging service eyeing the search market, is it any wonder than any mention of any of those buzz words from a Googler gets everybody all excited about Google-Twitter convergence? If thats not enough to keep you on the edge of your seat, check out what Marissa Mayer said in a press conference last week.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-05-12

Yahoo & Microsoft Meaningful Moments
Stacy (YHOO) gazed at the single white rose. The diamond tennis bracelet. The silver Porsche 911 997 GT2 topped by a red bow and an oversized tag reading IM SORRY. She turned to Brad (MSFT). Oh, Brad, she gushed, a tear in her eye. Its all so . . . meaningful. Yes, Stacy. Brad smiled and pulled out his PDA. Its not a question of if, its a question of when.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-05-06

For Advertisers, Yahoo Analytics
Google acquired Urchin and has offered its free analytics software for three and a half years. Microsoft first started promising a challenger back in 2007, but...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-05-05

Just Say No, Yahoo!
Ive always been kind of partial to Yahoo walking away from Microsofts overtures. Ive seen what Microsoft has done and despite the fact that their combined traffic might be the only entity that could keep Google from a total monopoly on the search market, Im not convinced the alternative is much better for Yahoo. Somebody else is there to back me up: Silicon Alley Insider.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-04-28

Yahoo's Time to Deal with Microsoft?
Yahoo posted its first quarter earnings report today. The company adjusted analyst expectations in January by announcing they expected to make as little as $1.1B in net revenue. While they exceeded that expectation, the company still saw a 80% drop in profit year over year and confirmed the layoffs rumored last week. MarketWatch reports today that up to 700 positions...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-04-22

More Layoffs and Deals
With the confirmation that Yahoo and Microsoft have renewed their potential partnership discussions, analysts have taken a look at the new potential deals&mdahs;and they say that Yahoo stands to benefit in several scenarios. And thats a good thing, since Yahoo is looking to make its first layoffs since Carol Bartz became CEO in January. Many analysts are basing their...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-04-16

Search Talk with Yahoo and Microsoft
No, I havent gotten confused about what year it is"Yahoo and Microsoft are once again discussing a search proposal. Well, color me so-freakin-tired-of-this-story. If youve been living under a rock for the last year, heres a quick rundown of why this story is soooooooooooooooo old. Last February, Microsoft made an offer to buy out the company, and considerable drama then ensued.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-04-13

Google Car Stopped by English Mob
No, this power-to-the-people headline isnt a belated April Fools joke. A Buckinghamshire neighborhood barred a Google Street View car from...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-04-03

Yahoo Mobile Messenger
Shouldnt pretty much all serious news be delayed until tomorrow? Apparently Yahoo disagrees, since theyve chosen to release their latest mobile offering today.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-04-02

Google Video Ad Shop
Google began its foray into television advertising just under two years ago. Last May, they took the program out of beta. And now theyre taking...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-03-30

Google Getting Too Big?
I think the moral of this story will end up being something about stones and glass houses. Apparently, Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently criticized...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-03-27

Can Google Be Slain by Facebook?
This week, weve wondered if Google cares about social, after an analyst said that Google is ignoring social search because theyre jealous of social networks.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-03-20

Still Holding Out - Microsoft/Viacom
Some people just dont know when to give up. Its almost sad, really, watching them doggedly pursue something or someone past the point of all reason.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-03-20

Google Doesn't Care About Social Media?
Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield issued a report yesterday about the MySpace/Google ad deal concluding that Google doesnt care about social networking. But perhaps it should, since social-networking platforms are gradually making search less relevant, according to AdWeek. Sounds pretty harsh, no? Its well-established that ads on social networks dont...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-03-19

Microsoft and Yahoo, Still Going
The Microsoft/Yahoo saga continues. Over a year after the initial buy out offer, and all the drama that followed, Microsoft is still trying to flirt with Yahoo.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-03-11

Yahoo Update: Challenge Google and Facebook
Data portability: its one of those buzzwords that everybody just has to be in on these days. From OpenID to Facebook Connect to Google Friend Connect, there...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-03-05

Bartz Sell Search? No Way
So, it looks like Steve Ballmer is still"still"interested in buying Yahoo search. Just one short year (plus three weeks) after an initial...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-02-25

Google Antitrust Suit
We've heard the rumors for a long time"the government is eyeing Google as a monopoly. Late last year, the Department of Justice was allegedly hours away from filing an antitrust suit against the search giant, stopping only because Google reneged on its planned ad deal with Yahoo. But it looks like they might not have to wait for another such pending deal"a company...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-02-20

Google Japan Penalized for Paid Links
We all know that Google is against using paid links to promote your site in search engine results. But apparently they didnt exactly put that...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-02-13

Searchers Love Google but Not That Loyal
It shouldnt be news to anyone that Google is the most popular search engine in almost every market. But a recent study by Forrester Research...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-02-12

Google Officially Syncs with Mobiles
Although some third-party apps have provided these capabilities for a while, yesterday Google announced an official product to sync your phone with your Google products.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-02-11

Google and Time Warner
During Time Warners earnings call today, CEO Jeff Bewkes told a sad tale of love gone wrong. Yes, Google is dear johning AOL. I hear the letter went something like this:
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-02-05

Google is Gaining While Yahoo is Losing
It was John Adams who first said, The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people. In case you missed the memo, Google is winning the search war"if you measure success by looking at who controls most of the search market. Yahoo, their biggest competitor in the US, has steadily lost out to the search giant. But there was one area where Yahoo always beat Google"display ads.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-02-04

Yahoo Search Still Wanted by Microsoft
Well, Microsoft, you just cut 5000 jobs and missed your Wall Street estimates. What are you going to do now? If you guessed theyre going to Disney World, youre wrong. No, according to Steve Ballmer, theyre looking to drop some big bucks on Yahoo search. Naturally, Ballmer isnt naming his price quite yet. On the earnings call this week, however, Ballmer made no bones...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2009-01-26

Google Is Cutting More Than Just Jobs
Those 100 recruiters arent the only ones getting the axe at Google. Just two months after killing off Lively, the search giant is shuttering or...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-01-16

Is Carol Bartz The Right Choice?
I doubt that anyone (aside from maybe Sue Decker, the Yahoo President who announced her resignation in the official announcement of the new CEO)...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-01-15

Verizon and Microsoft Mobile Search Deal
Its been a year of rumors and intrigue for Verizon. Okay, maybe its not quite that dramatic, but there has been a little sturm-und-drang surrounding...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2009-01-08

More Negatives for Yahoo: Reduced Severance
Just a day after their massive layoffs began, Yahoos in the news again"and again, its not really the kind of story you want about your company. This time, Yahoo has reduced their severance stipulation for a merger or takeover, removing a possible barrier to acquisition. According to the AP, the new plan will make it significantly more difficult for any employees laid off...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-12-12

Yahoo Still Trying
Its only natural after all of this years upheavals at Yahoo to wonder whats next for the search giant"and you wonder if the board itself is thinking the same.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-11-21

Microsoft Not Buying Yahoo...?
The world has changed a lot since January 31, 2008. In case youve just tuned in, heres a quick recap of the last nine and a half months:
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-11-20

LIFE's Photo Archive with Google Images
You guys remember LIFE magazine, right? Known as a scion of glossy photojournalism, Life was published in one form or another until last year.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-11-19

Microsoft Live Search: Project Silk Road
Today at PubCon, Microsoft announced its latest improvement to its search offering: an API with ad support, called Project Silk Road.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-11-14

Microsoft Live Search Success
Announced in May, Microsoft Live Searchs cashback program was instantly the source of ridicule"but now theyre showing off their success.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-11-14

Google Reader Translates Feeds
Google Reader premieres a new feature: the ability to translate feeds into your language! Before the party starts, let me just tell you upfront: I have a degree in Linguistics. Machine translation really isnt quite there yet. While this is very cool, and I know youre thinking I'm wrong, its only a start--and sometimes not even a great start.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-11-12

User Behavior Understood by Google
Google is renowned for its intuitive user interface--but a lot of work goes in to making sure that Google understands exactly how its users interact with its pages, as evidenced in a blog post yesterday. And Google doesnt just look at the user data they get from clicks or surveys--they use actual field studies.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-11-10

Memo from Decker to Yahoo
Youre the president of a well-known company. Youve just spent the past nine months battling off an acquisition from one competitor and battling for...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-11-06

Google to Display Copyrighted Works
Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) have reached an agreement, announced today, that will allow...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-10-29

Yahoo/Google Deal Drags on - to its Death?
Despite Googles headway inside the Beltway, the Yahoo/Google ad deal is still under government review"or, more technically, stalled while the...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-10-22

Yahoo Optimistic After Earnings Drop
Yahoo reported its Q3 earnings today, and its not all good news. Well, on the positive side, Yahoos revenues are up to $1.8 million. The bad news is that its only 1% YOY. And the worse news is that their profits were $54.3 million in Q3"compared to $151.3 million for Q3 2007.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-10-22

Google Still Learning Lobbying Ropes
Google and Microsoft are at each others throats once again: this time for control of Washington. And what Im about to tell you probably sounds like all the back-room dealing weve heard so much about during this campaign and were all tired of hearing about lobbyists"but thats exactly what this is.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-10-21

Google Beats Q3 Estimates
Googles had a tough time over the last couple years, with Wall Street Analysts expecting almost exponential growth. When they first missed estimates, growing only 58% in Q2 2007 (the losers), some analysts thought it was the beginning of the end. While theyve bounced back from time to time...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-10-17

New Yahoo Ads Tout Safety, Ease of Use
Yahoos unveiling a new display and radio ad campaign today. The campaign, which is targeted to fight Google, touts Yahoos safe results and easy-to-use interface. One banner ad adjures us: Dont get lost in all the links: A radio ad advertises the SafeSearch feature, which uses ...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-10-15

Google: Content Attributes in SERPs
It's just been one of those weeks: Google is innovating all over this week. The latest changes that have been spotted come in Googles bread and butter: the SERPs.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-10-13

Hakia Redesigns: Is It Enough?
Hot on Asks heels, the semantic search engine Hakia launches a redesign today, too. Aside from the new SERP layout, Hakia is testing the use of peer-reviewed credible sites and a personal start page. As a tab on the redesigned SERP, Hakia offers an option to refine your results to sites...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-10-07

Yahoo Defends Google Ad Deal, Too (And Again)
Almost three weeks ago, Yahoo defended the Google ad deal with executive vice president Heather Schneider. Maybe its just a postmortem twitch of the...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-09-30

Google Gearing up for Birthday Celebration
Googles getting on in years. Its gotten to the point where theyre not quite sure of their own birthday. Once upon a time, it was September 7, but its since migrated to September 27. (Thats okay. It happens to the best of us.) To celebrate the big 1-0 this week, Google has launched a site...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-09-25

Yahoo Adds a Soundtrack to the SERP
If youre like me, your life pretty much has a soundtrack. (For some reason, my soundtrack plays almost exclusively in my head and consists...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-09-19

Standing Between Google and World Domination
Yandex. Seznam. Naver. Baidu. Yahoo Japan. Like the Justice League of search engines, these five sites are the only things standing between Google and world domination, according to the Financial Times. These five search engines dominate the markets in their respective...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-09-18

Google Audio Search, Gaudi, Joins Labs
Good news: something positive has come out of this campaign after only 13,346,275,386 months (less than two to go!). In July, Google announced theyd begun...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-09-17

Google Search Options Live?
Less than two weeks ago, Google Blogoscoped blogged about a prototypical Google SERP with extra search options available right in the blue results bar.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-09-16

Yahoo Defends Google Deal; Attacks on All Sides
Yahoo offered a three-hour media day today as the DoJ is looking a bit closer at the pending ad deal between Yahoo and Google. Yahoo US EVP Hilary Schneider defended the deal, stating that it will give advertisers access to more search engine users. Citing an example of -red roses in burmingham alabama-, Schneider pointed...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-09-12

Google News: Old News
Google News is into old news. Really old news. Today Google announced Google News Archive, a project that has scanned and indexed newspaper archives.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-09-09

Microsoft Live Search to Integrate with Facebook
Facebook and Microsoft have been linked in the news before"especially after last October where Microsoft purchased a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240M. This year weve seen...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-07-25

Google Knol Launches
You know how dj vu is? Im feeling that today, since its been seven months since Google Knol was announced, and theyre just now getting around to going live. And what we said at the first announcement still looks to be true: Google Runs Out of Content to Monetize; Wants You to Build More.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-07-24

Google Maps Adds Walking Directions
Wow. I feel like Google really hears me. First, they make Gmails contact system less invasive, and now they add walking directions to Google Maps! I do a small dance of happiness!
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-07-23

Yahoo Bares Its Teeth: Home Page, Legg Mason to Fight Icahn
Yahoos letter to shareholders yesterday was just the first step in their latest defense against Carl Icahns attempts to elect a proxy board at the shareholder meeting in two weeks. Today...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-07-21

Yahoo Admits Google Monopoly; Deal with AOL?
Sigh. Andy, Andy, Andy. Taking good stories and leaving me to cover Yahoo/Google/Microsoft and their latest flings. Well, lets get to it, shall we? Lets spin the wheel of metaphors...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-07-17

Microsoft, Yahoo, Google Gearing up to Battle
Yahoo is in the midst of a three-front war"and yet not one of these fights is for dominance in any field of operations business. The Eastern Front Dateline Washington, DC. Yahoo...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-07-16

Hosts to Provide Google Webmaster Tools Access
Google announces a new program today to work with web hosts to integrate Google Webmaster Tools for their users. The Google Webmaster Tools Access Provider program features...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-07-15

Yahoo Still Fighting the Good Fight
I knew you were wondering, since none of us are sure these days, but Yahoo is still giving it the old college try. Heres the latest from the Yahoo battlefront. Although a few of our...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-07-14

Google Explains Ranking (Basically)
Today, Google Fellow Amit Singhal posts on the Official Google blog explaining Googles ranking system. But before you all start salivating and clicking, note that this is a very high level overview"no secrets given away. Still, its a good reminder of the basics of Googles ranking system.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-07-10

Yahoo: Make Us an Offer (We Won't Refuse)
Suddenly, I feel like I work for Soap Digest. But with the latest dont-miss developments in The Young and the Profitless, we had to get a jump start on Season Two! Last time, on The Young and the Profitless: Despite Staceys (YHOO) recent marriage to Grant (GOOG; last season), Brad (MSFT) has decided hes going to win her back, with or without her consent.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-07-08

RIP, Ask City
First IAC took itself apart, now Ask is slowly dismantling its cool features, too. Chris Pendleton, a Virtual Earth evangelist, has posted that Ask has dropped its own mapping features"Ask...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-07-03

Microsoft Planning Another Yahoo Run
Sometimes we just cant let dead horses lie. Thats okay, neither can Microsoft. After months of more drama than a daytime soap (ahem) with the attempted merger/acquisition of Yahoo, Microsoft pulled their offer back in May. And now theyre saying, Whoopsiedoodle. On second thought...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-07-03

Google Testing New iGoogle, No OpenSocial Support (Yet)
If you havent tried iGoogle, Googles personalized homepage, youre not alone. But Googles looking to spiff up their customizable homepages & testing has already begun, as Google...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-06-30

Yahoo Announces Reorganization
We were pretty sure about this last week, Yahoo has formally announced their reorganization. Excuse me, their Realignment to Support Core Strategies.. According to Kara Swisher...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-06-27

Google Maps Cheaps out with MapMaker
Once upon a time, a bunch of Googlers were sitting around during meal time or 20% time or something, just thinking. And you know what happens when Googlers think in groups, right?
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-06-26

Search Engines Preferred for Product Research
Just in case anyone out there was having a crisis of faith, the Opinion Research Corporation has good news for you: search engines are still the preferred method for conducting product/service research. In a survey of 736 adults released yesterday (PDF), ORC found that not only do most people prefer...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-06-25

Ask Takes Google to Task on Privacy
Forget that privacy watchdogs are all over Google threatening legal action for not linking prominently to their privacy policy - now other search companies are out to steal their bacon.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-06-19

Continued Fallout from the Google/Yahoo/Microsoft Love Triangle
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are still getting plenty of attention, despite the apparent finality of recent decisions to end talks between Y&M and to start a search advertising deal with G&Y. Once again, weve herded together some of the best and most insightful stories to give you the big picture.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-06-19

Yahoo and Google: Wise Move or Beginning of the End?
Its time for another edition of Good Idea/Bad Idea! Good idea: Making more money. Bad idea: Making more by admitting that you suck and your competition is so good at this that...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-06-17

Yahoo and Google Announce Agreement
A couple hours later than expected, Yahoo and Google have finally announced a non-exclusive advertising agreement.Yahoo began a small test of Google advertising in April and was quickly impressed with the results"but then they left us hanging, waiting for an announcement for nearly two months.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-06-13

Icahn v. Yahoo, Round Kabillion
Some couples just never seem to tire of bickering. Their constant squabbles make small children look mature. Because I know you havent had enough of this drama lately, this is another...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-06-12

No, Really, You Cahn't: Round 2
Things are going from bad to worse between Yahoo and Icahn. In Round 2 of letters this week, Yahoo and Icahn repeat many of the same arguments, but theyre really getting snippy now.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-06-10

Yahoo Responds to Icahn: No You Cahn't
As if things arent already nasty enough for Yahoo these days, this week, lawsuits and allegations abound that Yahoos spurning of Microsofts offer earlier this year was motivated by...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-06-06

Icahn, Shareholders Want Yang Out of Yahoo
Two strikes against Yahoo chief Jerry Yang: there appears to be a growing movement to take him out of the top position at Yahoo. Carl Icahn, who received approval to purchase more...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-06-04

Google Sites Opens to All
First launched nearly three months ago as part of Google Apps, Google Sites was Googles rebranding of JotSpot. Late yesterday, Google Sites, designed to allow users to easily create...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-05-23

What Do Yahoo's Sponsored Search Tweaks Mean?
Apparently, Things continue to be busy here at Yahoo!, and not just because of any on-again/off-again courtship by a company from a rainy land. Yahoo announced yesterday a few...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-05-21

Will Google Image Search Get Display Ads?
Are display ads in the future for Google Image Search SERPs? Marissa Mayer talked to Bloomberg Radio earlier this week and she didnt deny the possibility: We havent found a proper...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-05-12

Yahoo India Launches "Glue" Pages
Yahoo India has launched a new feature in their search results called Glue pages. As Barry Schwartz explains: Glue Pages are specialized pages that contain an enhanced visual search...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-05-09

Google Adds Features to Custom Search Engines
Google has announced enhanced features for custom search engines: the integration of sitemaps and AdSense for Search. The new features will improve search results in a Google...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-05-08

Yahoo Makes the World a Safer Place
Yep, Yahoo working to make the world a safer place"to search. Yahoo will now display warnings on SERPs to indicate that some of the sites listed in their results may not be entirely safe. Yahoos SearchScan feature will be a new default for SERPs served to the US, Canada, the UK, France, Italy...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-05-07

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Near Something or Other
Raise your hand if youre tired of hearing about the pending Google-Yahoo and/or Yahoo-Microsoft deals. All right, everyone who isnt me"youre excused from reading this post. Me"you...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-05-05

Microsoft Launches Live Mobile Product Search, Locator
Microsoft announced yesterday the launch of a new mobile search offering-product search under their Live brand. Microsofts browser-based mobile product search, from m.live.com
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-04-30

Google AdWords Displaying Quality Score Variables
Reports are surfacing today that some Google AdWords ads, especially on Google.de (their German TLD), are displaying what may be variables used in determining quality scores: Pscore, mCPC and thresh. The numerical values have been spotted in both sidebar and shaded results:
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-04-30

Google: FTC Would Sign Off on Yahoo Deal
As Andy mentioned in todays Pilgrims Picks, Reuters reports that Googles confident about the proposed ad deal with Yahoo receiving the OK from the FTC. If you dont remember, almost...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-04-29

The Drumroll: Countdown to Yahoo Earnings
I know youve been on the edge of your seat since last Monday, when we pointed out the sword of Damocles was hanging over Yahoo, tied largely to their Q1 results, due out tomorrow afternoon.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-04-22

Google Updates Sitelinks, Not Webmaster Tools
Over at SE Roundtable, Tamar reports that Google has updated her sites sitelinks. Google Webmaster Tools has been teasing me with sitelinks for my personal site for a while, I checked it out:
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-04-18

Google Website Optimizer: All Grown Up
Googles Website Optimizer has reached a milestone that most launches today dont: it left beta. Not only that, but its also launching as an independent product, according to the Google Analytics Blog. What does it mean to get spun out in the Google product family?
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-04-17

Google's KML Becomes Industry Standard

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2008-04-15

Yahoo Running Out of Time with Microsoft
If the Yahoo/Microsoft deal is to going happen at all, analysts think that itll happen this week, according to CNET. Despite having rejected the initial offer long ago, Yahoo is still feeling the pressure for several reasons. Two deadlines are looming for Yahoo: Q1 reporting and Microsofts latest ultimatum deadline.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-04-15

Are You About to Lose the Right to Call Your Work 'SEO'?
Do you use the word SEO to describe what you do? Look out: an enterprising marketer (both of those words are used euphemistically) has set his sights on taking your livelihood"or...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-04-09

Microsoft, Yahoo Announce Mobile Moves
Both Microsoft and Yahoo announce big moves in the area of mobile and mobile search today.Microsoft plans to upgrade its mobile Internet Explorer browser, according to an announcement released yesterday (no word on whether thats just prank, though). Microsofts press release states that this will bring...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-04-03

Google Wants to Offer National Wi-Fi for Free
Free, nationwide WiFi. Drooling yet, or do I need to say it again? Free, nationwide WiFi from Google. As we mentioned earlier, Google is lobbying the FCC for some of the wireless spectrum that will be freed next year when television will cease analog transmission. Googles plan? Wi-Fi on steroids. (Without the roid rage, Im guessing.)
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-03-25

Yahoo to Double Cash Flow in Three Years
Still maintaining that theyre worth way more than $44.6 billion, Yahoos recent SEC filing yet again emphasized their belief that their stock is substantially undervalued. Caroline McCarthy...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-03-19

Google Sky Spins Off

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2008-03-14

Yahoo Going for OpenSocial?
Yahoos making moves as if to join the OpenSocial initiative of standardized APIs for social network developer/3rd party apps. And then we think about it: OpenSocial is Googles baby.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-03-13

What Did Ask.com Really Say?
It seems that some people dont wish to believe Ask.coms backtracking this week. After several mainstream media stories were published about Ask.com focusing its efforts on women...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-03-10

Yahoo's Audience Skews Younger
If youll recall, in December, Google lost market share by a minuscule amount. Instantly, the blogosphere abounded with rumors that Google was past its prime, that it was the beginning...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-02-18

Google: 99% Safe
External companies have long kept tabs on the safety of search engine results. McAfee, for one, regularly releases findings on the percentage of search results that bring up malware...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-02-14

Political Donations For Search Engines

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2008-02-05

Google Laying Groundwork for Latent Social Networks
Hours after VentureBeat kicked off the latest round of social search speculations, Google announced the Social Graph API. The API could use information contained in files and links...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-02-04

Social Search from Google?

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2008-02-01

Yahoo's Fourth Quarter Not Enough
Yahoo reported their Q4 earnings and revenue today. While their revenues are up and their net income per diluted share slightly beat expectations, as reported by Business Week...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-01-30

Google Experimenting New Search Views
Google started promoting their Experimental Search product more actively last week. This week, theyre making the formal announcement of new views in Experimental Search"with a familiar-sounding rationale. Now, Experimental Search isnt new news"and neither is a search interface thats not just a list of 10 blue links.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2008-01-29

Google to NASA: Open Up

InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2008-01-18

Yahoo: Gettin' Facebook-y
Weve been following Yahoos push to "socialize" their large webmail userbase. In November, it was called "Inbox 2.0." At CES this week, Jerry Yang referred to...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2008-01-09

Yahoo Loses Chief Performance Officer to Google
Yet another Yahoo executive departs the twelve-year-old company. Steve Souders, Chief Performance Officer at Yahoo, will start at Google next Monday...
InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2008-01-02

The New Search Engine Battle
Its not a good day to be Google. First Ask premieres AskEraser, now theyre losing customers (well, at least one) to Microsoft. Yes, folks, gear up for the newest battle...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-12-12

12% of this Year's Best SEO Posts are from 2005-2006
2007 was a good year for SEO blogs. But perhaps it wasnt our best year ever. In a classic and pretty well executed piece of linkbait, Evan Carmichael has listed...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-12-07

Yahoo's Mobile Moves
Google isnt the only one tearing up the airwaves wireless spectrum. After Google announced its new open source mobile platform, Android, last week, Yahoo is once again in the position of playing catchup. However, as Reuters states, they may still be able to garner millions of advertising customers before Google does.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2007-11-09

70% of Searchers Experience Search Fatigue
A Kelton Research study, commissioned by Autobytel, reports that 72.3% of US adult searchers experience search engine fatigue (either always, usually, or sometimes) when researching a topic on the Internet. What should this statistic tell us?
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2007-10-24

Yahoo Earning More Search Revenue
Its no secret: Google dominates search advertising (PPC). We often say that for anyone to legitimately challenge their dominance, theyll have to capture more of the search advertising market. (Of course, to do that, you usually have to catch more market share, which you usually do by advertising, which you usually do with the extra revenue. . . .)
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2007-10-17

GPhone: Low Cost, Low Tech?
The highly-touted, much-rumored GPhone may (or may not) actually be a reality"but it may not take the form were all expecting. Ever since the rumor first began late last year...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-10-16

Google Hinting at Its Own Social Network?
Unlike our good friend Steve, Eric Schmidt is one of the true believers in social networking. Perhaps hes just one of the younger people (or younger at heart people) that Ballmer said were so absorbed in the faddish nature of social networking, even though he is a couple months older than Ballmer.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2007-10-15

Google Maps Expands Street View
In addition to some high resolution photos, Google added the ability to pan up now. They give the example of the Sears Tower (in Chicago).
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-10-10

Google Attacks Verizon Over Secret FCC Lobbying
Back in July, Google made waves (and headlines) with the wireless spectrum bid/bluff. The FCC would eventually agree to most of their open access demands.
InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2007-10-09

Google Video Home to Pirates!
We didnt mention it (too many bad scraper experiences, perhaps?), but last Wednesday was Talk Like a Pirate day. According to the National Legal and Policy Center...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-09-28

Yahoo Index Update
Speculation has been flying today about an update at Yahoo. Aaron Wall noticed: botching part of a sitewide 301 redirect that they had followed for months...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-09-27

DMOZ Delisted?
Last week, Rand Fishkin gave a good round up and reasoning behind what appears to be a recent Google penalty for sub-par directories. It looks like he might be able to add one more devalued directory to his list: DMOZ.
InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2007-09-25

Eyetracking on Google Universal SERPs
AT SMX Advanced in June, someone asked about eyetracking for personalized results. Gord Hotchkiss took on the challenge, and today...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2007-09-24

Reuters Is Watching
Reuters has announced a facial-recognition video search program this week. In conjunction with Viewdle, facial recognition software, Reuters will index its videos so that readers can search its news footage for individuals.
InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2007-09-20

Can Yahoo Mash Cut It?
Yahoo has unveiled its newest attempt at social networking: Mash. As Jerry Yangs 100 days draw to a close, predictions for Yahoo announcements have flown thick and fast over the last week:
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-09-18

Yahoo Spreads a Virus?
Yahoo announced that they were acquiring Right Media in April (before this, theyd owned a 20% stake). And now just what Yahoo didnt need: Right Media servers appear to have been providing more than ads recently.
InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2007-09-13

Yahoo to Break Open
Business Week reports that Yahoo is working to open up: not just in transparency, but in involving users"and especially user-developers"to improve Yahoo.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-09-13

Google Book Search Adds My Library
Okay, so Website Optimizer and Reader arent the only Google products getting new features: Google Book Search has added an entire library, just for you.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-09-07

Google Execs Talking about Video Ads
Thursday at the Citigroup Technology Conference in New York, Google Director of Product Management Sundar Pichai and Group Business Product Manager Nicholas Fox spoke about the possibility of image or video in the universal search interface"in the sponsored listings.
InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2007-09-07

Google´s Blogger Under Attack
The BBC reports today that Googles free blogging software, Blogger, is under attack from malicious spammers. According to the report...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-08-31

Google Goes Social on Facebook
The Wall Street Journal may have moved on, but Google is just getting to the Facebook party. Mashable covers yesterdays launch of the Google Facebook application.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-08-29

Will There Be a Google Phone After All?
The last time we mentioned the ever-persistent rumors of the Google Phone (or GPhone), it was to point out that Google has left a gaping loop hole...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-08-28

MSN/Live Webmaster Portal in Private Beta
Remember back in March when MSN/Live took their link: operator offline? Well, theyre now one step closer to opening up that information. This evening, theyve announced a new private beta of their Webmaster Portal.
InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2007-08-23

Google Earth Indexing the Stars
No, Google Earth isnt planning on providing maps to movie stars homes, or tours of Hollywood. Theyre looking to index the final frontier, as Reuters reports today.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-08-23

Something Ask.com Does Right
Ask.com has good news sprouting up everywhere, it seems. Their new feature-heavy, offensive-content-free commercial premiered last week and now comes the news that their new interface...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-08-21

Google Expanding its Frontiers: Click Fraud
Google premiered a number of new sites, including several ventures in China and a new click fraud resource center.
InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2007-08-21

CNET Rates Search Engine on Privacy
Google got an F on privacy from Privacy International earlier this summer. Their DoubleClick deal got scrutiny from the FTC for privacy issues.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-08-14

Ask.com Ads: Confirmed as Creepy
You already know that Ask.coms latest round of I got what I was looking for TV commercials are not what I was looking for.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-08-07

SEO Is Dead. Again.
Sorry, folks. If you were working in SEO, your career is over. Just ask Tadeusz Szewczyk, who guest posted on Google Blogoscoped earlier this week:
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-08-06

Local Search Trumps Paper
I bet you thought scissors beat paper"local search beats paper, according to a recent TMP Directional Marketing study conducted by comScore.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-08-03

62% Don't Trust Search Engines
Hakia.com has sponsored the Search for Better Search website, which so far looks rather thin, though it does have some interested poll responses.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-07-23

Google Webmaster Central Adds Message Center
Google Webmaster Central announces the addition of a message center to the Webmaster Console (Webmaster Tools>Dashboard). What are they going to communicate with site owners about?
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-07-19

Is Personalized Search Really Better?
At SMX's Personalized Search: Fear or Not? session, Michael Gray suggested that Google highlight the results in personalized SERPS that are "personalized." After all, he argued, if they're so much better, why not show them off?
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2007-07-12

Forbes Goes Negative on SEO
It's not what you think: today Forbes wrote about "negative SEO." While we all know the benefits of "positive SEO," Forbes interviews Brendon Scott to find out more about...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-06-29

Google Is a Machine; Mahalo, Our Human Search Savior
We've already mentioned Matt Cutts's thoughts on humans' role in enhancing search engine results today. A New York Times article, "The Human Touch That May Loosen Google's Grip," yesterday prompted Matt's...
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2007-06-26

Blinkx Developing Video for AdSense, Release Set Monday
The Next Net announces today that video search engine Blinkx is developing a video for AdSense model. The service is code named "Project Trilby," but will be released as "AdHoc" on Monday.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-06-21

Ask's Marketing Mistakes?
As a follow up to his story Wednesday, Barry Schwartz asked around and discovered that 74% of Diggers Thought Ask.coms Campaign was Googles Campaign.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2007-06-15

New Google Analytics Features Screenshots
If you request it, they will come-Google Analytics features, that is. The Google Analytics Blog announces today the premiere of new features, including features requested by...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-06-13

Ask's Latest Commercial: "Chicks with swords"?
Ask had a new campaign all ready to go in honor of the launch of the new Ask 3D interface. If you weren't a fan of their Unabomber ads, maybe you'll like the new one.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-06-07

Something Interesting in Search Engine Land's CSS
A thread at WebProWorld points out something interesting in Search Engine Land's stylesheet: text-indent: -9000px; Hm! Danny Sullivan didn't know about the line of code...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-06-04

Google Maps in the Streets
Google Maps has launched street-level maps for several major US cities today. Currently available only for New York, Denver, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Miami, the new features enable you to get a street-level view of the city.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-05-30

IAB: Search Doing Well, Metrics Meeting Outcome
The Interactive Advertising Bureau seems to be trying valiantly to stay at the top of the news this week. They've released their 2006 Internet Advertising Revenue Report and the results from last week's closed meeting with Nielsen//NetRatings and comScore.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2007-05-25

Ask: "It isn't about beating Google, Microsoft or Yahoo!"
Apparently Jennifer Laycock, Josh Catone and Andy aren't the only ones wondering about Ask.com's future.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-05-25

SEW Editor Moves On
Elizabeth Osmeloski, editor of Search Engine Watch, is moving on. Tuesday she announced that this week is her last at SEW. After three years there, she's moving on to become...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-05-23

Video SEO
With Wednesday's announcement of a new universally integrated Google SERP, it's doubly important to optimize your non-text content for Google.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-05-18

Latest Product Improvements from Google
Google has improved two of their products recently: Google Book Search and Google Analytics.
InternetFinancialNews > Latest Search > SE News 2007-05-18

Google Market Share Up Again
Hitwise released their April 2007 search engine market share numbers today-and, surprise, surprise, Google is still way out in front, climbing just over a percentage point over March's numbers.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-05-10

LookSmart Getting Contextual
LookSmart is expanding their paid search offerings to include contextual advertising. The press release says that they are now "the only company to offer publishers...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-05-09

Google to the Rescue
Theres definitely a reason why Google Transit is still in Google Labs.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-05-01

Google Video Getting Personal
In light of cases of Google losing personal data, reassurances from Matt Cutts, and even extremely well-targeted Adsense ads (ie they were relevant to the searchers interests...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-04-30

Linkbait, Google Ads, Mobile Search and Suing Spammers!
Marketing through social bookmarking sites from ClickZ. At first glance, sounds like a simple guide to Diggbaiting...
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-04-27

Linkbait Isn’t Always the Best
I know, its sacrilege to say this, but linkbait isnt always the best way to promote a site. Yes, itts fun, creative and, when it works, highly effective. But its not always the best.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-04-24

SEO Doesn’t Guarantee Blog Visitor Loyalty
Mixed blessings for SEM come from a Boston University study entitled Traffic Characteristics and Communication Patterns in the Blogosphere.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-04-20

Search Spending On The Rise
Googles not the only one growing. MediaPost reports that the entire search marketing industry is poised to grow as well.
InternetFinancialNews > Top Story > News 2007-04-12

Spanish SEO Contest:
Since were on a Spanish kick this week, I thought Id give this a mention: We have yet another SEO contest upon us.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-04-05

The Future of SEM
It seems like every tradeshow, expo and seminar has to have at least one session on the future of its industry. Generally, the predictions are . . . general.
InternetFinancialNews > Blog > Talk 2007-03-30



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