This day in search marketing history: January 3
Why Google penalized Google Chrome, plus: DuckDuckGo launches Donttrack.us, Google challengers, Google newspaper ads and more.
Topic: EarthLink
AOL Scheming To Sell Itself To Yahoo?
This morning brings another report of AOL M&A machinations involving ways to merge with or be acquired by Yahoo, now that both sites have very similar missions and strategies. They’re in a way like the Ford and Chevy of the internet these days: workmanlike but not very glamorous. Maybe that’s unfair to Ford. Both Yahoo […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 10, 2010
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 2010 Biggest Search Geek Demographics The 2nd annual SMX Biggest Search Geek Contest, sponsored by Marin Software, is designed to recognize the most knowledgeable and capable experts in the field of […]
Google To Develop Superfast “Experimental Fiber Network”
Google continues to flirt with being an ISP or carrier. Several years ago the company was part of the aborted municipal WiFi bid for San Francisco with Earthlink. Google is also one of the major forces behind the White Spaces initiative (“WiFi on steroids“) that seeks unused TV spectrum for broadband purposes. In addition, Google […]
Tech Companies Win ‘White Spaces’ Airwaves Decision
The US Federal Communications Commission approved a plan to allow unlicensed broadcast TV spectrum to be used by companies to create wireless broadband services that amount to “WiFi on steroids.” This was a hotly contested issue, with tech and electronics companies like Google, HP, Microsoft, Intel, Dell and Motorola, among a number of others, lining […]
Report: AOL Units Being Readied For Sale
For months there’s been anticipation that some or all of AOL would be sold. Talks between AOL and Yahoo have been ongoing, as they have with Microsoft to a lesser degree. But months ago AOL decided to separate its ISP business (8.7 million subscribers) from its advertising and consumer portal businesses. According to the Wall […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 30, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
White Spaces: Google’s Second Bite At The Wireless Apple
Now that the 700MHz auction is over and Verizon and AT&T are the winners of the largest spectrum blocks, Google is placing renewed emphasis on its shared bid for a piece of unlicensed TV “white spaces.” We’ve written about the so-called “white space coalition” previously.
Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review
Each month, I compile Search Month — a recap of all the stories that have happened relating to search, categorized by topic. I thought it would be fun to take all the Search Months over the past year and produce this edition of Search Year 2007. It was far more work than I imagined, but […]
Schmidt: Google Will Definitely Participate In The Wireless Spectrum Auction
This article from Forbes sort of quotes Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying, for the first time, that the company would “definitely” participate in the forthcoming 700 MHZ wireless spectrum auction to be held in January. It also says that Google would open that spectrum up to anyone willing to pay for it, in defiance of […]
BT Teams With FON To Offer Nationwide WiFi In UK
British Telecom has invested in FON, the Spanish WiFi provider, and says it will build out a free (to BT customers), UK-wide free WiFi network. MarketWatch reports that “BT’s three million plus Total Broadband customers will be able to join the FON WiFi network, which already provides more than 190,000 hotspots worldwide. By doing so, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 30, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Microsoft, Google Suffer Setback On ‘White Space’ Internet Access Plan
According to a Dow Jones report, prototype devices from Google, Microsoft and a coalition of companies that includes Philips, Intel and Dell failed an initial test that might have allowed the group to offer wireless internet and potentially other services on “unused portions of the nation’s television airwaves.” The Federal Communications Commission’s Office of Engineering […]
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:
Google Leading Wireless Challenge Against Broadband Incumbents
Google Goes Wireless from BusinessWeek reports on Google’s lobbying in Washington DC to open up a government auction of licenses for those wanting to provide new wireless services. We know that Google, Microsoft and others would love to use a slice of these radio waves to run their own wireless devices. If this government auction […]
Google & Earthlink Said To Be Near Start Date Of WiFi Network
MarketWatch reports that Google and Earthlink are finally near a deal to finalize the agreement with San Francisco officials to provide free WiFi to the city. It has almost been a year since Google started the process of submitting a bid, and then winning that bid in April 2006. At this rate, maybe all the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 25 & 26, 2006
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web: