Search Biz: AOL Spin Off, Yahoo Layoffs, Google Losses, IAC Spoons And Pines For AOL

Apr 30, 2009 at 12:31pm ET by Greg Sterling

The biggest Search Biz news of the week is about AOL's forthcoming spin off and related personnel moves. Time Warner yesterday announced quarterly revenues and a whopping $16 billion loss (not the largest in the company's history). For its part, AOL's ad revenues fell roughly 20 percent to $867 million from $1.13 billion the previous year. The primary cause was weakness in online display advertising. The ISP business also declined. Source: Time Warner earnings release In addition, Time Warner yesterday confirmed the long-expected intention to sell or spin off the AOL unit. The precis [...]

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Who’s Coming & Going In The Search Industry?

Apr 27, 2009 at 9:47am ET by Barry Schwartz

Over the weekend, there seemed to be a lot of activity on people coming and going at search companies. I figured I sum up some of those moves in a short post here. Former Googler Douglas Bowman, who resigned from Google due to Google being too data centric has taken a job at Twitter, according to TechCrunch. Priti Choksi, a director of strategic partner development at Google has moved to Facebook, according to VentureBeat. Well-known Greg Linden is Leaving Microsoft after Microsoft has "dismantled" Live Labs. Brad Williams, Yahoo Inc.'s head of communications has left the company. Rumo [...]

Filed in: Google: Employees, Microsoft: Employees, Search Biz, Yahoo: Employees

Search Biz: Google News Courting Legal Trouble?, Bold Predictions About Behavioral Ad Targeting & More

Feb 27, 2009 at 4:04pm ET by Matt McGee

Will the recent introduction of paid ads on Google News lead to legal issues for Google? That question is discussed today on ClickZ, where Sandra Baron of the Media Law Resource Center says publishers will be looking at what Google is doing: "A significant issue for content providers is whether or not what Google provides becomes a substitute for going to the actual content providers site. When that tension becomes too great, people seek legal solutions to it." Google News itself only offers snippets of news articles, a photo, and then links to the content provider: The ads on the [...]

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