SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 21, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Topic: IGoogle
Google Offers ‘Themes’ For Personalized Homepage
There’s a flurry of activity in the newly invigorated personalized homepage category. Within the past two weeks all the major competitors have made announcements. First, AOL launched MyNetscape, followed by the release of “universal video widgets” on Pageflakes. Then the new MyYahoo launched. Yesterday Netvibes unveiled “Coriander,” its next product release with new content modules. […]
My Yahoo Update Coming In “Few Weeks”
PC World reports that My Yahoo will be launching an updated version within a few weeks. The reports do not specify exactly what we will see from the upgrade, but I am suspecting we may just see an enhanced RSS reader built into the portal.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 16, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Reader Reporting Subscriber Numbers, Offers New Publishers Guide
Google Reader has now announced that it is now providing subscriber counts, the number of people who read your blog through feeds at Google Reader or the Google Personalized Homepage. In addition a new Google Reader Publishers Guide has been posted with tips on how to get add to Google buttons and answers to frequently […]
Google Ramps Up Personalized Search
Google is stepping up the push into personalized search results. A new change announced today should cause many more people to take up the service. In turn, the growth of personalized search should have a dramatic impact on search marketers as the days of “same results, all around” eventually come to an end. For searchers, […]
Dan Cohen, Ex-Yahoo Lead, New CEO of Pageflakes
Ex-Yahoo Exec now Pageflakes CEO by Om Malik reports that Dan Cohen, who was the Head of My Yahoo business unit, left Yahoo to become the CEO of Pageflakes. Gary Price recently reviewed Pageflakes, describing it as an easy and free way to “build a dynamic personalized home/start page.” It is a lot like Google […]