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Mar. 17, 2008 at 9:35am by Greg Sterling
Early Yahoo Postmortem And Google CEO Eric Schmidt On The Prospect Of MicroHoo
If the Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo does happen, the "postmortems" on Yahoo will come fast and furious. Perhaps the first of these is from the Mercury News, which recounts the history of Google and Yahoo's early relationship and how the latter essentially "made" Google, which went on to become its...
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Mar. 5, 2008 at 9:58am by Danny Sullivan
Obit: A West Coast Digerati Deadpools Ask.com
Goodbye, Ask.com. You caught my eye back in 1997 as an unusual meta search engine that asked questions to get answers. By 1998, I counted you alongside Google and Direct Hit as shining examples of what to watch in search. You'd dumped depending on others for search results and...
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Feb. 22, 2008 at 4:00pm by Paul Bruemmer
Is The Time Ripe For Search Marketing Standards?
Over the past ten to twelve years, various SEM practitioners have brought up the need for industry standards. I started asking the question in 1998, and others have brought it up since, but the industry seems to have a laissez faire attitude. Albeit, we've seen some standardization steps taken by...
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Jan. 28, 2008 at 8:17am by Barry Schwartz
Google Lego Logo: Google Offers Lego 50th Birthday Wishes
Google has a special logo up on the Google home page today. The Google logo is made up of legos, to celebrate Lego's 50 year birthday. Google's culture has always had a special place for Lego. Google's first servers were "modded" up with Legos. The Google founders have admitted to...
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Jan. 3, 2008 at 10:12am by Danny Sullivan
Goodbye, Yahoo Picks
Children, gather 'round. When I was a boy, we didn't have Digg. We didn't have Slashdot. When we wanted a big traffic rush, we had to walk eight miles in the snow to Yahoo Picks -- Yahoo Picks Of The Week & Picks Of The Day -- and we liked...
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Jan. 3, 2008 at 8:22am by Jill Whalen
How SEO Has Evolved Over The Years
As I write this on New Year's day, I can't help but reflect on how SEO has changed during the more than 12 years since I first started optimizing websites. I was browsing through my hard-drive looking for a document I had saved that had various article ideas in...
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Jan. 1, 2008 at 2:29pm by Danny Sullivan
Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review
Each month, I compile Search Month -- a recap of all the stories that have happened relating to search, categorized by topic. I thought it would be fun to take all the Search Months over the past year and produce this edition of Search Year 2007. It was far more...
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Dec. 4, 2007 at 12:43pm by Andrew Goodman
Search Industry Nostalgia: A Reminder of How Far We've Come
If I were writing the local County Cross Country Ski Club newsletter, a retrospective might cover two or three minor changes in the field, and a watershed moment or two. Primitive skis were used by Vikings as much as 5,000 years ago. In about 1460, someone in Scandinavia discovered...
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Sep. 27, 2007 at 6:30am by Danny Sullivan
Google Birthday Logo: Nine Years Old
The Google home page is sporting the special logo above, celebrating the company's ninth birthday, with one of the Gs turned into a nine. But wait? Didn't Google just turn 10? Google Is 10 Years Old? Finding The Real Google Birthday that I posted earlier this month covers how...
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Sep. 14, 2007 at 10:47am by Danny Sullivan
Google Is 10 Years Old? Finding The Real Google Birthday
The AFP has clearly been waiting for September 15, so it could trot out today's "Google is 10 years old" story. But the company itself doesn't count tomorrow as its 10th birthday. In fact, knowing exactly when Google's birthday is depends on your point of view. Some milestones to...
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Aug. 16, 2007 at 1:17pm by Danny Sullivan
Goodbye Search Engine Strategies!
It's Search Engine Strategies San Jose next week. For Chris Sherman and I, it's our swan song. This is the last SES event that either of us will program, with our search marketing conference efforts going forward focused on our own Search Marketing Expo (SMX) events. But we've put...
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Jul. 30, 2007 at 8:30am by Barry Schwartz
From eTours To Commanding Ask.com: Jim Lanzone's Story
I Fought the Law from the New York Times tells the story of how Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone abandoned pursuing a legal degree and learned his true passion was for internet companies. Lanzone attended Emory University's School of Law in Atlanta. He then worked for Justice Hugh P. Thompson at...
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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:...
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Jul. 5, 2007 at 8:33am by Barry Schwartz
Profile Of Susan Wojcicki: Mother Of AdSense
The house that helped build Google from the USA Today looks back at how Susan Wojcicki's decision to let Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, rent out space in her garage changed her life and ours. Wojcicki purchased her 4-bedroom home on 232 Santa Margarita Ave. for about $600,000...
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Jun. 9, 2007 at 1:00am by Danny Sullivan
Happy 10th Birthday, Search Engine Watch - A History Of The Site
Ten years ago today, I created Search Engine Watch. Now I'm here at Search Engine Land, but since I ran SEW for 95 percent of its existence, I thought it would be nice to look back and cover how it evolved and changed over the years. So here's a stroll...
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Mar. 13, 2007 at 8:44am by Barry Schwartz
First Web Search Creator Works At Google, Puts Books On Earth Map
The Inside Google Book Search Blog has a post from Matthew Gray about how he designed a program to plot the world based on the "frequency of its locations mentioned in books." Google Operating System adds that Matthew Gray was the creator of the first ever web search engine, The...
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Mar. 9, 2007 at 9:49am by Danny Sullivan
Former Microsoft Search Chief Bill Bliss On Early Search Missteps
Yesterday I wrote a long piece looking at Microsoft's moves in search since 1997. Bill Bliss, who I described as overseeing Microsoft's "first era" of human-powered search, has added some great comments on missteps within the company ranging from not buying search technology earlier and ignoring the Google threat for...
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Mar. 8, 2007 at 10:27am by Danny Sullivan
Microsoft's "Third Era" Of Search Begins With Departure Of Search Chief Christopher Payne
Microsoft's top search executive leaving company from the Seattle PI covers Microsoft's Christopher Payne reportedly leaving the company. The AP also reports similar news from its sources. Payne took over search efforts at Microsoft back in 2003. He oversaw what I'd call Microsoft's "second era" of search, that of...
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Feb. 27, 2007 at 4:43pm by Greg Sterling
Happy Birthday, Flickr: Web 2.0 Pioneer Turns Three
On March 3rd, Flickr turns three. Flickr is in many ways the company that helped define "Web 2.0" and was its poster child for quite some time. And Yahoo's acquisition of Flickr, in March, 2005, after only a year in existence and, even then, a longish courtship was one of...
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Jan. 17, 2007 at 9:18am by Barry Schwartz
Wired Looks At Yahoo Failures Over The Years
How Yahoo Blew It by Wired, tells the story of Yahoo's failures over the past years. The article starts off explaining that Yahoo could of bought Google, but Google turned down the $3 billion offer made by Yahoo. The article then summarizes Google recent success after their IPO and says,...
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Dec. 13, 2006 at 8:58am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Answers Birthday: One Year Old
Yahoo Answers, arguably one of Yahoo's most successful products of the year, has turned one today. Yahoo has listed The Best of Answers 2006 showing off some of the best user generated questions and answers for the year. You can get a free gift from Yahoo for their birthday over...
