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 [...]
Filed in: Search Biz
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 [...]
Filed in: Search Biz
SearchBiz Legal Edition: Varney Uses The “M Word,” More AdWords Litigation, Yahoo Lawyer Files Complaint — Against Yahoo
Feb 18, 2009 at 10:25am ET by Greg Sterling
If Christine A. Varney is confirmed as the head of anti-trust for the US Justice Department it may signal tough times ahead for Big G. Bloomberg discusses public remarks that Obama nominee Varney made before the American Antitrust Institute about Google in a June, 2008 speech:
The U.S. economy will “continually see a problem -- potentially with Google” because it already “has acquired a monopoly in Internet online advertising,” she said.
Reportedly she believes that Google “lawfully” obtained its monopoly.
While one might make a plausible argument that Google's search dominan [...]
Filed in: Search Biz
SearchBiz: MicroHoo Redux, MySpace ‘Dissed’ By Yahoo, Microsoft Hiring In Search
Feb 2, 2009 at 9:30am ET by Greg Sterling
I was reminded by CNET that it was exactly a year ago when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made his bold, unsolicited bid for Yahoo. It seems like a lifetime ago, certainly for the economy it is. CNET's Stephen Shankland speculates about what might have been if the offer had been accepted by Yahoo rather than resisted.
It's a "on the one hand, on the other hand" sort of analysis, but interesting to consider how deeply the ranks of Yahoo would have been cut and how many of its initiatives subsumed had the deal happened. It's also interesting to contemplate how much the Yahoo brand and search ass [...]
Filed in: Search Biz
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