Halloween ‘09 From Google, Yahoo, Bing & Others
Oct 31, 2009 at 8:11pm ET by Barry Schwartz
Today is Halloween and the search engines have logos up for the special day. Before I post the logos, here are some posts from others in the community on Halloween.
Matt Cutts of Google had a holy costume. Google Blogoscoped noticed Google added trick or treat to their robots.txt file. Bing has a special visual search edition for today. Bruce Clay's team dressed up and PPC Heros added some funk. Finally, the logos you see below is reposted from the Search Engine Roundtable.
Google has four Doodles:
Yahoo (Flash):
AOL (Flash):
YouTube:
Bing:
Ask.com:
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Filed in: AOL: General, Ask: General, Google: Logos, Microsoft: General, SEM Industry: Community, Top News, Yahoo: General
Shashi Seth, Another Ex-Googler, Lands At AOL
Sep 29, 2009 at 4:16pm ET by Matt McGee
AOL announced today that it's hired former Google employee Shashi Seth as its Senior VP of Global Advertising Products. While with Google, Seth was head of monetization for YouTube. Most recently he was the Chief Revenue Officer for Cooliris.
AOL's addition of Seth is the latest in a series of hirings from the search industry -- and Google in particular -- going back to March when Tim Armstrong left Google to become AOL's Chairman and CEO. Armstrong was one of Google's longest serving executives, and AOL credited him for helping to "build one of the most successful media teams in the histor [...]
Filed in: AOL: General, Google: Employees
Brad Garlinghouse To Run AOL’s Email, IM & Venture Units From West Coast
Sep 8, 2009 at 8:47am ET by Greg Sterling
Brad Garlinghouse, who was previously an SVP at Yahoo, and the author of the now famous "Peanut Butter Manifesto," is joining AOL as president of Internet and Mobile communications. What this means is that he'll be responsibile for email, IM and other communications tools, which implicates a range of properties including Bebo.
According to the press release out this morning Garlinghouse will also be "heading up AOL's Silicon Valley operations from its Mountain View campus and serving as the West Coast lead for AOL Ventures, the company`s venture capital arm headed globally by Jon Brod."
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Filed in: AOL: General, AOL: MapQuest
AOL Value Sinks: Google Sells 5 Percent Interest For $283M
Jul 27, 2009 at 8:28pm ET by Greg Sterling
In anticipation of a spin off/IPO for AOL, TimeWarner bought back Google's 5 percent interest in the company for $283 million dollars. Google originally purchased the equity stake in AOL in 2005 to preserve its search relationship with its largest partner and fend of Microsoft, which was seeking a potential deal with or acquisition of AOL.
The original Google investment was $1 billion, which valued the TimeWarner AOL unit at $20 billion. The current valuation of AOL, based on the share buy back, would be roughly $5.6 billion.
Here's what Google said, before it wrote down most of the va [...]
Filed in: AOL: General, Google: Business Issues, Google: Legal, Google: Partnerships
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong: “The Model Is Disney”
Jul 20, 2009 at 10:49am ET by Greg Sterling
It's been roughly 100 days since Tim Armstrong was named CEO of AOL in anticipation of a spin-off/IPO of the company from corporate parent TimeWarner later this year. There are a slew of interviews out this morning in which Armstrong assesses his first 100 days, the state of the business and gives some indications of where AOL is headed.
Among the highlights:
AOL sees content and its display ad network reach as its primary strengths
It will have many brands built on more unified platforms that simplify the back end
The new AOL will be divided into the following areas (per AdAge): co [...]
Filed in: AOL: General, AOL: MapQuest, AOL: Search Marketplace, Google: Partnerships
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