SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 15, 2007

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web: From Search Engine Land: Ask.com: The $100 Million Brand IAC to spend $100 mln on Ask brand in 2007: Diller from the Washington Post reports that Ask.com is going spend $100 million on branding Ask.com […]

Chat with SearchBot

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web:

From Search Engine Land:

  • Ask.com: The
    $100 Million Brand

    IAC to spend $100 mln on Ask brand in 2007: Diller from the Washington Post
    reports that Ask.com is going spend $100 million on branding Ask.com this
    year. IAC chairman Barry Diller, whose company owns Ask.com, said We have a
    number of ways to tell people about Ask, its tools,…
  • Forty-Eight
    Hours With Ask Mobile

    On Friday I received a briefing on Ask Mobile (with GPS) and a demo phone with
    the application pre-installed. I now have three mobile devices that I’m
    carrying: a traditional cellphone, a Windows Mobile device and the Ask Mobile
    demo phone. It’s quite a challenge to physically manage all these…
  • AOL Buys Third
    Screen Media Ad Network

    Seemingly in parallel with the land grab going on online, mobile M&A is
    heating up. Earlier this month, Microsoft acquired EU ad firm ScreenTonic and
    prior to that voice services and directory provider Tellme. Today, mobile ad
    network Third Screen Media went to AOL and will become a subsidiary of…
  • Yahoo Fills CFO
    Position With Blake Jorgensen

    Yahoo has appointed Blake Jorgensen as its new chief financial officer.
    Jorgensen was the co-founder of Thomas Weisel Partners, a company he helped
    start in 1998. He takes over from Susan Decker, who has been jointly serving
    as CFO and as head of the new Advertiser & Publisher Group, formed…
  • Blinkx And
    ChaCha Strike Video Search Deal

    ChaCha, which combines traditional algorithmic search with human-assisted
    search, has announced a video distribution deal with Blinkx. ChaCha’s new
    video search will be entirely powered by Blinkx and potentially incorporated
    into ChaCha’s live search sessions. ChaCha uses chat functionality to enable a
    staff of paid, expert guides to interact with…
  • Yahoo Expands
    Unlimited Email Offer Globally

    Today, Yahoo has begun rolling out unlimited email capacity worldwide. On
    March 28th, we reported they were offering unlimited email storage in the US.
    Now this is going worldwide. Not everyone will have unlimited capacity today
    but over the next coming months, they will, a Yahoo spokesperson told me….
  • Pipl – A People
    Search Engine

    Pipl is a people search engine that tries to be a little different. Rather
    than just go off and hunt for email addresses, this tries to search through
    the deep/invisible/hidden web to return content that other search engines are
    going to miss. The interface is simple – type in first…
  • Your Paid
    Search Performance Is Relative

    Behold the noble savage. This mythical creature, an invention of 18th-century
    romantic philosophers, coexisted peacefully with his environment, uncorrupted
    by civilization. My advice to you as a paid search advertiser this week is: be
    as "corrupted" as possible, if corrupted means recognizing that peaceful
    coexistence is nearly impossible. You’ll…

Search News Headlines From Elsewhere

Business Issues

Conferences

Link Building

Local, Maps & Mobile

Paid Search & Contextual

Podcasts

Searching

SEM Industry

SEO & SEM

Social Media

Video & Image Search

Other Items


Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Staff authors are listed here.


About the author

Danny Sullivan
Contributor
Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land and MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

Get the must-read newsletter for search marketers.