This day in search marketing history: February 11
Yahoo officially rejects Microsoft, plus: passage ranking goes live, Google's SEO consulting services, Google Japan's link penalty and more.
Topic: Microsoft Development Center Norway
MindMeld Launches Voice Assistant 2.0, Says Voice Search Growing Dramatically
San Francisco-based Expect Labs, which previously positioned itself as a kind of “Google Now in a Box” or “Siri in a Box” for third-party developers, has changed its name to MindMeld. The company is also launching a second generation of its technology, which it now describes as a “platform for creating large-scale language-understanding and question-answering […]
Cortana Everywhere: Speech-Driven Digital Assistants As The New Universal UI
Microsoft's Project Oxford offers bundle of advanced tools and functionality to developers.
Tim Mayer: Search Vet & Ex-Yahoo Lands At Trada
Tim Mayer, a former Yahoo and longtime search industry veteran, has landed a new role at Trada, the crowdsourced SEM marketplace based in Colorado. Mayer joins the company as its Chief Strategy Officer, and will oversee sales, marketing, product development and operations. Ben Wright, another ex-Yahoo, is also joining Trada as its VP of Service […]
Tim Mayer, Who Worked For Practically Every Search Engine, Leaves Yahoo
Earlier I wrote about the depature of Yahoo’s Srinija Srinivasan. Yahoo’s lost another person, and another big figure in search, that of Tim Mayer. Tim just tweeted, as shown above, that he’s enjoying his first “post-Yahoo” day. Tweeted using the Twitter account I personally set up for him ages ago, I might add! Who Didn’t […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 11, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Microsoft Beefs Up Enterprise Search
Microsoft bought FAST Search & Transfer almost exactly a year ago. Now Microsoft is starting to integrate FAST’s capabilities into its other products and to market FAST more aggressively: FAST Search for SharePoint, a new search server that will add the high-end search capabilities of FAST ESP into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, will be available […]
Search Biz: Yahoo Earnings, Google Lobbying, Tech Stimulus, Best Places To Work & Making PCs ‘History’
Just like the US economy, things at Yahoo may get worse before they get better; the company reports earnings today at 5 p.m. Eastern. The general expectation is they’ll be down. Yahoo may have been hit hard by the weakness in online display advertising. And new CEO Carol Bartz will be on the hot seat […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 26, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 22, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchBiz: Mehdi Moves Up At Microsoft; Should MSFT learn from Ask?; Top 25 People On The Web; Google & The NSA
With Microsoft’s current advertising campaign still leaving many people shaking their heads in wonder, TechCrunch has an idea: follow the lead of Ask.com. Jason Kincaid confesses that Ask’s ad — the one that shows a young woman “exercising” (ahem) on a stripper pole in her house — actually made him curious enough to click through […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 25, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Microsoft To Buy Fast Search For $1.23 Billion
Microsoft Agrees to Buy Fast Search for $1.23 Billion from Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is buying FAST Search. The Norwegian search company, Fast Search & Transfer ASA, will be bought by Microsoft for 6.6 billion kroner, or $1.23 billion. Microsoft will buy the company via the Oslo Stock Exchange, share by share. Here is the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 28, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 24, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Searcharazzi: Salacious Wiki Edits to FAST Search & Transfer
Ever since Caltech graduate student Virgil Griffith launched Wiki Scanner, it has been nonstop fun freaking out PR people everywhere. While Wired’s list of salacious edits has everyone abuzz, Searcharazzi still enjoys good, old-fashioned wiki sleuthing, as brought to our attention yesterday. Apparently someone representing FAST Search & Transfer has been modifying facts regarding the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 17, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Fast Search To Fire 148 Employees
Fast Search & Transfer lets go of 148 employees from Pandia reports that Fast Search and Transfer will be letting 148 employees go this year. The employees who are being fired are reportedly being compensated for the downsizing. Fast Search & Transfer have reportedly hired 400 employees in 2006 and 2007. The company’s CEO, John […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 8, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
FAST Misses Q2 Revenues, Changes Accounting Practices
FAST Search & Transfer said that Q2 earnings were off based largely on a change in accounting practices. The company had formerly booked MOUs (memoranda of understanding) as revenue and that practice has been eliminated. We were informed but have been unable to substantiate that the company’s accounting practices are now under investigation. Second quarter […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 5, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
FAST Buys Recommendations Engine AgentArts
Enterprise search provider FAST Search & Transfer has acquired personalization platform and recommendations engine AgentArts. The technology will be folded into FAST’s various enterprise search offerings, which include a range of site search and monetization options for online publishers. The company also has a mobile search partnership with InfoSpace. FAST has positioned itself as a […]
InfoSpace Launches Mobile Services Platform
InfoSpace released a new mobile platform called “mCore.” Designed to help carriers provide a better user experience, the new platform offers mobile search, storefronts, portals and messaging. It’s also modular to enable carriers to use all or part of the platform. Simultaneously, InfoSpace announced Virgin Mobile in Europe and Verizon Wireless in the U.S. as […]
Microsoft’s Tellme Acquisition ‘Accelerates’ Mobile Search Competition
Notwithstanding Microsoft’s own existing speech assets, the Tellme acquisition appears to be complementary and strategic for Microsoft across the board. There were the four principal areas, identified in the release, that would be pursued or enhanced by the acquisition: unified communications, speech platform, software plus services and mobile services and search. Indeed, Microsoft wants to […]
InfoSpace Joins Forces With FAST For Mobile Search
InfoSpace and FAST announced a partnership at 3GSM conference that seeks to marry InfoSpace’s carrier relationships and content expertise with FAST’s search technology and PPC platform on mobile devices. The companies will be offering their new “white label” services and platform to wireless carriers in the U.S. and Europe. That makes the combined InfoSpace-FAST effort […]
FAST Introduces Private-Label Contextual Ad System
Enterprise search firm FAST has launched AdMomentum, a contextual advertising system that let’s publishers manage and serve their own advertisements, bypassing Google, Yahoo and other third-party contextual advertising services. FAST calls the platform a “revenue engine,” and is targeting small & medium sized enterprises and vertical search sites. “The major ad networks have not been […]
Q&A With Stephen Baker, CEO Of Reed Business Search
Reed Elsevier is one of the largest, most influential publishers in the world, a powerhouse in the science and medical, legal, education and business markets. But the company also has a major online presence, with more than 1,000 web sites in just its business group. Last year, Reed Business decided to leverage this significant online […]