Business Issues
Trada Secures Additional $9M In Funding From Google Ventures & Foundry Group
Trada, the crowdsourced PPC marketplace, has secured an additional $9 million in funding from their existing investors, Google Ventures and...
Acquisio Acquires ClickEquations & Partners With Channel Intelligence
Acquisio, provider of automated tools for search, display and social advertising, has acquired the ClickEquations search marketing platform from...
Adobe To Acquire Digital Marketing Agency Efficient Frontier
Adobe has agreed to acquire digital marketing agency Efficient Frontier, which has a strong search marketing practice and technology to manage...
How The Food Network Suddenly Spiked In Popularity & Why comScore Isn’t Buying It
In May 2011, the mantle of the most-trafficked food site according to comScore passed to Food Network from AllRecipes, who had held the position...
Live Blogging Baidu CEO Robin Li At Web 2.0 Summit
Baidu CEO & Chairman Robin Li will be speaking today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. I’m here and will be live blogging his...
How Google Could Have Bought Baidu And Other Fascinating Details About China’s Largest Search Engine
BusinessWeek has published a terrific and lengthy article on Chinese search engine Baidu, how it “won” China and its global...
Google Out To Hurt Companies That Issue Press Releases, At Least According to Reuters
Last week, Google made a bold move that some worry may block audiences from information and harm individuals. This move sent controversial...
Micro-Hoo: The Details Emerge With SEC Filing
First to pounce on the SEC 8-K filing by Yahoo was PaidContent, which provides an extensive bulleted list of many of the deal terms not revealed...
Bing + Yahoo: What Does It Mean For Users?
The deal is done. Microsoft has swallowed Yahoo search whole and we can all be put out of our long, lingering misery. Yahoo has given up on...
Search Marketing Firm, Conductor, Raises $10 Million
Conductor, a search marketing firm, has announced they have raised $10 million in funding from Matrix Partners and FirstMark Capital. This is...
Search Marketing Firm, Marin Software, Raises Additional $13 Million
paidContent.org reports Marin Software, a search marketing company, has raised an additional $13 million venture capital. The primary source of...
Firefox Drops Google For Yandex In Russia, But Big Loser May Be Rambler
Mozilla’s General Counsel, Harvey Anderson, announced the Russian builds of Firefox 3.1 will drop Google for Yandex. He explained that...
Interbrand Ranks Brand Value: Coke Number 1, MSFT Number 3, Google Number 10
BusinessWeek and Interbrand have come out with their latest ranking of the value of global brands. The big winners, in terms of positive change...
Microsoft & Yahoo Shuffle Business Internally
While Microsoft and Yahoo move further apart from creating Microhoo, they both continue to make changes internally with the intention of...
Google Loses Richard Kimber To Friendster & Yahoo Loses Adam Hyder To Jobvite
TechCrunch is reporting that Google and Yahoo both lost two important employees. Google lost Richard Kimber, Google’s Managing Director of...
Twitter & Summize Tie The Knot
The rumors that Twitter will be buying Summize have now been confirmed. Twitter, the popular micro-blogging platform, has acquired Summize, a...
All Things D: The Search Edition
There’s a ton of search-related news and intrigue coming out of the Dow Jones “All Things D” conference in Southern...
Indiana Jones Search: Indy Meets Microsoft Live Search
For over a year, Microsoft has been experimenting with games to help build its search marketshare. Yesterday, I learned of one that certainly...
The Art Of Opportunistic Linking
A couple weeks back I wrote a LinkWeek column here titled “Your Site’s Manifest Linking Destiny“. At the end of that column I...
Cuill Gets $25 Million In VC Funding
Cuill, the stealth search startup backed by former Google, AltaVista, and IBM search experts, has completed a second round of funding to the...