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Apr. 4, 2008 at 4:24pm by Greg Sterling
Search Biz: Google Ups And Downs, Yahoo's Jekyll And Hyde Sides, The Revolving (Personnel) Door, & More
Writing the Search Biz column is challenging because of the diverse group of stories that get collected every day. Today there's an unusually large number; however, there are basically three broad themes: Google and the company's legal challenges, Yahoo's Jekyll and Hyde positions on China and human rights, and...
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Apr. 3, 2008 at 5:04pm by Greg Sterling
HP Promoting T-Shirts Promoting YouTube Videos, Yahoo Nixes "The 9," Craigslist Reaching For $100 Million, Google Grants, & More
Given that we were unwittingly ensnared by Mike Blumenthal's authentic sounding April Fools post earlier this week, we're being a bit more careful and reading items more closely these days. However, one article from Bloomberg that almost reads like an April Fools item discusses a novel program on Google's...
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Mar. 31, 2008 at 4:49pm by Danny Sullivan
Search Biz: Diller Keeps IAC Control; Googlers To Facebook; Google Earnings Downgraded & More
IAC stays in Barry Diller's control. US government agencies look to Google's search hardware to find information. Google's hotel-industrial complex that's coming to Mountain View. Those darn declining paid clicks -- will they hurt Google's bottom line? Yahoo breaks out golden handcuffs to retain employees, while Google loses another...
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Mar. 25, 2008 at 3:39pm by Greg Sterling
OpenSocial Becomes More Open, Facebook Says No; AOL Flamed By Mag; Court Rules Against Clicking Minors
The big news today comes from a trio of major Internet brands. Google, Yahoo, and News Corp.'s MySpace joined forces to announce that OpenSocial, the social networking platform alternative to Facebook's platform, is going to become a non-profit foundation. As such, it will have a completely separate management and...
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Mar. 21, 2008 at 12:48pm by Chris Sherman
Search Biz: Probing Wikipedia's Finances, Facebook Toast?, & Google Denies Evading Chinese Taxes
It's well known that Wikipedia is maintained by a legion of volunteers throughout the world. Structured as a non-profit, the site features no advertising, despite being the #7 most visited destination on the web, and a property that most advertisers would kill to get exposure on. Which begs the...
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Mar. 20, 2008 at 3:30pm by Chris Sherman
Search Biz: New York Privacy Law May Set National Precedent; AOL Worth Half Of Yahoo?, & Surprise, Google Still #1
A privacy law taking shape in the New York legislature will make it a crime for internet companies to use personal information about consumers for advertising without their consent. And because of the generally boundary-free nature of the internet, it would effectively set a national precedent for companies collecting...
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Mar. 19, 2008 at 1:59pm by Chris Sherman
Search Biz: Online Marketing Will Continue To Grow Despite Slowdown, Yahoo Woos Shareholders, & Alibaba Wants To "Close Sesame"
Markets are riding rollercoasters, central banks are bailing out major financial institutions, inflation is rearing its ugly head, and consumers are apparently pulling back into their shells, but none of this gloom-and-doom is even remotely threatening the growth in online marketing and advertising spend, according to eMarketer. The market...
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Mar. 18, 2008 at 5:17pm by Greg Sterling
Search Biz: Alibaba Gains, Google Loses, & Eric Schmidt Says Don't Call Me Daddy Anymore
China's Alibaba.com, in which Yahoo is a significant minority shareholder, enjoyed a massive 340 percent gain in net profit tied to China's fast-growing economy. As Google argued earlier, it appears that those doing business in Asia and China in particular are somewhat insulated from the United States' economic woes....
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Mar. 17, 2008 at 5:19pm by Greg Sterling
Search Biz: Google Pays More For DoubleClick, Benefits More From Online Ad Shift, AOL's Platform A Coming Together, & More
Last week, as you know, the EU gave approval to Google's acquisition of DoubleClick for $3.1 billion. However, the deal closed at $3.24 billion, a mere $140 million more. But Google doesn't have to count its pennies during this recession, the company says, because its international growth, specifically in...
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Mar. 12, 2008 at 5:40pm by Danny Sullivan
Search Biz: Google's Project Management Tools, Iowa Seeks Microsoft, & More
Click Forensics gets $10 million in funding. An early Googler donates money to San Jose State. The fight to control IAC carries on. Disney doesn't want AOL. Yahoo and Microsoft do research labs in Israel. A glimpse into the internal tools Google uses to manage products, and Iowa passes...
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Mar. 11, 2008 at 3:57pm by Danny Sullivan
Search Biz: DoubleClick To See Layoffs? Walmart Drops The "Google PC," & More
Today in Search Biz: Those Linux-based "Google PCs" didn't sell like hotcakes, says Walmart. Yahoo gets a small paid search distribution deal with LiveDeal. The fight for IAC continues, DoubleClick may see layoffs after Google takes over, and Yahoo's old CEO might be partnering with a Steven Spielberg-backed network...
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Mar. 10, 2008 at 4:11pm by Danny Sullivan
Search Biz: Google Stock Hits New Low; News Corp Says No On Yahoo
Today in Search Biz: News Corp isn't throwing Yahoo a life preserver to fend off Microsoft. Ask loses a (small) paid search partner and gets competition for those women it now says it's not really that focused on (sort of). Google's stock hits a new low, but will it...
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Mar. 10, 2008 at 4:04pm by Danny Sullivan
New Search Engine Land Column: Search Biz
There's a lot of business news in search that we think is important for both searchers and search marketers to know about. But we don't want all the search business news to drown out other things we post on Search Engine Land or get lost in headlines as part...
