Firefox Drops Google For Yandex In Russia, But Big Loser May Be Rambler

Jan 12, 2009 at 8:41am ET by Barry Schwartz

Mozilla's General Counsel, Harvey Anderson, announced the Russian builds of Firefox 3.1 will drop Google for Yandex. He explained that after months of research and surveys, Mozilla learned that their "Russian users really wanted direct access to the Yandex search." So, in the next build of Firefox, the default search provider will be Yandex for Russian users. The big loser in all of this might not be Google. PaidContent.org reports that Rambler, one of the big Russian portals, will be letting their CEO go after seeing their market share drop from 14.9 percent last year to just 6.4 percent [...]

Filed in: Business Issues: Acquisitions & Investments, Business Issues: General, Google: Business Issues, Search Engines: Other Search Engines

Interbrand Ranks Brand Value: Coke Number 1, MSFT Number 3, Google Number 10

Sep 19, 2008 at 10:21am ET by Greg Sterling

BusinessWeek and Interbrand have come out with their latest ranking of the value of global brands. The big winners, in terms of positive change in the value of the brand, were Google, Apple and Amazon in that order. The greatest losers included Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Citi, Ford and Gap. The methodology for ranking the brands is described below. Here are the top 10, showing their rankings compared with 2007: Source: Interbrand (2008) Here's how Interbrand evaluates brands: All brands [are] subject to the following criteria: --There must be substantial publicly available financia [...]

Filed in: Business Issues: General, Google: Business Issues, Microsoft: Business Issues

Microsoft & Yahoo Shuffle Business Internally

Aug 21, 2008 at 8:26am ET by Barry Schwartz

While Microsoft and Yahoo move further apart from creating Microhoo, they both continue to make changes internally with the intention of building out a better search company. paidContent.org reports Microsoft is restructuring their Search Business Group. Microsoft is adding a new group focused on commercial search. Leading the commercial search unit is Jeff Kelisky, the CEO of Multimap, who will be the general manager of this unit. That unit will be responsible for Live Search cashback, MSN Shopping, local, consumer mapping, Virtual Earth, and mobile. Jeff's boss is Brad Goldberg, the GM [...]

Filed in: Business Issues: General, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees, Yahoo: Business Issues, Yahoo: Employees

Google Loses Richard Kimber To Friendster & Yahoo Loses Adam Hyder To Jobvite

Aug 5, 2008 at 9:57am ET by Barry Schwartz

TechCrunch is reporting that Google and Yahoo both lost two important employees. Google lost Richard Kimber, Google's Managing Director of Sales and Operations for South East Asia, to Friendster. Yahoo lost Adam Hyder, Yahoo's Senior Director of Engineering for its Advertising Management Platform, to Jobvite. Richard Kimber will be the new CEO of Friendster, and the old CEO, Kent Lindstrom, will become Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. Adam Hyder is joining Jobvite as the company's new CTO. Previously, Jobvite hired Yahoo HotJobs leader, Dan Finnigan, as its CEO. [...]

Filed in: Business Issues: General, Google: Business Issues, Google: Employees, Yahoo: Business Issues, Yahoo: Employees

All Things D: The Search Edition

May 29, 2008 at 9:32am ET by Greg Sterling

There's a ton of search-related news and intrigue coming out of the Dow Jones "All Things D" conference in Southern California. Let's start with the ridiculous remark from IAC's chief Barry Diller that "Google is irrelevant to us." That's only true if Diller doesn't care about search revenue. Google is essentially the source of that revenue for IAC. He also reportedly said, "I believe our product is in most respects better than Google," and that he thinks Google's dominance cannot last indefinitely in search: "At some point Google will not live ever after with 60 or 90 percent of market." A [...]

Filed in: Ask: Ask 3D, Business Issues: General, Facebook, Google: Critics, Google: General, Microsoft & Yahoo Search Deal, Microsoft: Business Issues, Yahoo: Business Issues, Yahoo: General, Yahoo: Partnerships, Yahoo: Search Ads

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