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Apr. 22, 2008 at 12:36pm by Barry Schwartz
Earth Day Logos From The Search Engine Industry
As I posted earlier this morning, here is a quick compilation of logos for Earth Day from the search industry....
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Apr. 15, 2008 at 12:26pm by Barry Schwartz
AOL Acquires Sphere & Creates Search Interface For iPhone
Sphere, software that connects contextually relevant content to your content, has been purchased by AOL. The Sphere Blog confirms the acquisition, and TechCrunch suggests the purchase price was at about $25 million. Sphere initially launched as a blog search engine but then adapted into a "related content engine," with clients...
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Apr. 9, 2008 at 9:39pm by Barry Schwartz
Report: Yahoo & AOL Approaching A Deal
Yahoo, AOL Close In on Tie-Up Deal from the Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo and AOL are close on finalizing a deal that would combine parts of both companies. The deal would bridge Timer Warner's Internet operations with Yahoo by folding the AOL unit into Yahoo. In return, Time...
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Mar. 13, 2008 at 8:31am by Greg Sterling
In Unexpected Move, AOL Buys Social Network Bebo For $850 Million
In a somewhat surprising move, given the speculation surrounding AOL and its future, the company has acquired number three social network Bebo for $850 million in cash. Bebo has a reported 40 million unique users on a global basis. AOL says in its press release, "Together with its AIM and...
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Mar. 12, 2008 at 9:10am by Greg Sterling
News Corp. Appears To Close Door As AOL Opens One To A Potential Deal With Yahoo
Monday News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch seemed to say that he won't be doing a deal with Yahoo, which argued that Yahoo had few options left in its bid to stay independent. However, today, in an article in the NY Times, Time Warner Chief Jeffrey L. Bewkes said that he's ready...
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Jan. 11, 2008 at 1:16pm by Greg Sterling
New AOL Finance Gains Market Share To Become Top Site
TechCrunch is reporting comScore data that shows AOL's new finance site (which we wrote about here) passing Yahoo Finance and MSN Money to become the internet's top finance destination. If these traffic numbers are accurate, it would be a very striking development -- especially beating out Yahoo, which has held...
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Dec. 24, 2007 at 8:03am by Greg Sterling
From Browser To Digg Clone: The Short, Unhappy Life Of Netscape
Netscape has been reinvented several times since its acquisition by AOL in November 1998 -- and all of these efforts have essentially failed. In addition to a browser, the Netscape brand had been associated with a portal and discount dial-up ISP (and still is) before Jason Calacanis turned the site...
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Dec. 12, 2007 at 12:30pm by Greg Sterling
AOL Creates "Platform-A Marketing Solutions" Unit
Trying to realize the promise of its "Platform A" integrated display advertising initiative, AOL has created "Platform-A Marketing Solutions." The new unit combines the formerly separate sales teams of AOL and Tacoda. AOL acquired behavioral targeting firm Tacoda in July of this year. The effort is focused chiefly on traditional...
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Dec. 10, 2007 at 10:40am by Greg Sterling
Coming Layoffs At AOL, Yahoo?
Silicon Alley Insider is predicting impending layoffs at AOL and recommending them at Yahoo. Alley Insider's Henry Blodget says that layoffs would be good for Yahoo and "Demonstrate that CEO Jerry Yang can make the tough, unpopular decisions necessary to get this company humming again." I think that he's correct...
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Nov. 28, 2007 at 9:00am by Greg Sterling
AOL Launches New Money & Finance Site, Powered By Relegence Search Engine
Roughly a year ago, AOL acquired Relegence, a search technology company that offers real-time information and data feeds on a subscription basis to Wall Street professionals. Now AOL is bringing the fruits of that acquisition to a newly redesigned Money & Finance site intended to go head to head with...
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Nov. 12, 2007 at 8:20am by Greg Sterling
AOL Buys Q&A Provider Yedda
AOL announced that it has acquired Israeli Q&A provider Yedda for an undisclosed sum. Comparable in many respects to Yahoo Answers, Yedda bills itself as a next generation "semantic" Q&A service. AOL will more broadly integrate the functionality into a number of its sites and properties, as Yahoo has with...
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Nov. 7, 2007 at 8:14am by Greg Sterling
AOL Confirms Quigo Acquisition, Integration Into 'Platform A'
Based on the circulating rumor and reports, we joined the speculation that AOL was acquiring Quigo and would integrate it into Platform A. Today AOL confirmed that it had entered into an agreement to acquire the company for an undisclosed amount, which various parties speculated was $300 million. Here's the...
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Nov. 6, 2007 at 9:38am by Greg Sterling
Report: AOL To Acquire Quigo For $300 Million
There are rumors and reports circulating that AOL is about to add Quigo to its now pretty full roster of online ad networks and technologies, which includes Tacoda, Advertising.com, Third Screen Media, Lightningcast, and AdTech. These entities are the backbone of AOL's "Platform A" integrated online (and mobile) advertising, er,...
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Oct. 15, 2007 at 1:15pm by Greg Sterling
AOL To Let Go 2,000 Employees
Kara Swisher reports on a layoff notice from AOL CEO Randy Falco. The bottom line, literally and figuratively, is that the company is trimming (or slashing) 20 percent of its workforce. The letter outlines the company's new focus on three business segments: "We refocused the business around three core areas–Platform-A,...
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Sep. 17, 2007 at 11:38am by Greg Sterling
AOL Introduces 'Platform A': Integrated Ad Targeting
AOL has moved its corporate headquarters to New York to be at the center of the U.S. ad and media universe and has introduced what it's calling "Platform A," an integrated ad buying platform and network that the company says has broader reach than any other today. Advertising.com and some...
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Sep. 12, 2007 at 8:12am by Danny Sullivan
Propeller.com: New Home For The Netscape Social News Site
Last week, it was announced that the social news site Netscape had been transformed into a year ago was going way, with Netscape becoming a more classic news portal and "social Netscape" to be moved elsewhere. Now we know where elsewhere is: Propeller.com (not currently live). Social News Update...
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Sep. 7, 2007 at 8:19am by Barry Schwartz
Netscape "Classic" To Return As Default View
Netscape has announced that the social news site it transformed into just over a year ago will be dropped from the Netscape home page in favor of the more traditional news portal site it released last month. Netscape made it clear that the social news site will continue, though the...
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Aug. 14, 2007 at 8:16am by Greg Sterling
Ask Jumps, Google Slips and Yahoo Leads American Customer Satisfaction Index for Search
For the first time, Yahoo has beaten Google in the annual University of Michigan American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The survey measures U.S. consumer satisfaction across a broad range of business and product categories including "e-business," which covers search. The survey asks a statistically representative sample of consumers to rate...
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Jul. 24, 2007 at 8:23am by Greg Sterling
AOL To Acquire Behavioral Targeting Ad Network Tacoda
AOL this morning announced that it would be acquiring Tacoda, a behavioral targeting (BT) ad network and technology provider (which works with many newspaper publishers). AOL owns the largest online ad network, Advertising.com, and will be integrating BT capabilities into that property as well as others across its network. BT...
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Jul. 5, 2007 at 7:49pm by Danny Sullivan
AOL: Tomorrow's Google Free Friday Alternative
Tomorrow is the first of the Google Free Fridays that Search Engine Land is promoting in July. As our previous This July: Try Google-Free Fridays! post explains, the point is to encourage people to open their eyes to some of the other major search engines, whether it to be to...
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Jul. 5, 2007 at 7:47pm by Danny Sullivan
History Of AOL Search
In preparation for those trying AOL tomorrow as part of our first Google-Free Friday, I thought it would be helpful to give some background on AOL in search. AOL has long offered search -- and even owned several web crawling technologies -- over the years. Don't forget to read AOL:...
