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: Napster
2012 Yahoo! Year In Review: Over 500 Top Searches In 50+ Categories
Last year, Yahoo! celebrated ten years of sharing its annual Year In Review feature, marking the occasion by releasing 30 categories of the most popular searches on Yahoo! in 2011, one of the biggest lists up to that point in time. For 2012, Yahoo! one-upped themselves by providing us with the top 10 most popular searches […]
Could The US Demand That Google Boost Hollywood Sites To Fight Online Piracy?
Should the US demand that Google, Bing and other search engines give preference to “authorized” sites offering television shows and movies? At least some members of the US House of Representatives pondered the idea yesterday, during a hearing on online piracy issues. The US House Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet Subcommittee hearings yesterday on […]
Life With Google TV: My First Day Review & Impressions
Google TV has finally arrived, not just for pre-order but as an actual device you can get in a retail store. And so I did, hitting Best Buy yesterday and walking out with a Sony Blu-ray player that is Google TV-capable. Here are my impressions, after my first day — well, first evening — with […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 4, 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: Twitter’s Promoted Accounts Now Live As was rumored last week, Twitter has formally introduced its latest advertising option: Promoted Accounts. Promoted Accounts will show up in the “Who to follow” section […]
Google TV Comes With Twitter, Netflix & More
The Internet is buzzing about the latest Google announcement about Google TV. Google shared with us their content partners for Google TV and their new web site for Google TV at google.com/tv. The content partners and providers include Twitter, Netflix, the New York Times and USA Today, VEVO, Pandora and Napster, blip.tv and their very […]
Justin Timberlake Releases Facebook Movie Trailer: “The Social Network”
The full length trailer for the social saga based on Facebook debuted on JT’s official blog and Yahoo Movies earlier today: The full length movie is scheduled to be released in early October, bringing the story of Facebook’s rise to fame to the big screen. From the trailer, it looks like we’ll see quite a […]
Live Blogging From The Google Discover Music Launch Event
The expected Google Music Search is real, and our Google Music Search 2.0 Launches With Musical “OneBox” story provides the play-by-play of how it works. Be sure to read that! From me, the color commentary out of today’s launch event at Capitol Records in Hollywood. I’ll be live blogging the news. We’re expecting some musical […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 16, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Report: How The Internet Has Changed Music Consumption Music file sharing services have always been a mutant species of search, offering different tools and methods for finding and listening to tunes. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 15, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Intertainer Sues Google For Patent Infringement On Online Video & Audio Distribution
The NY Times reports that Google, Apple and Napster were all sued by Jonathan T. Taplin’s Intertainer for patent infringement of a 2005 patent. Intertainer’s patent covers commercial distribution of audio and video over the Internet. I believe this is the patent application filed on November 24, 2005, named “Digital entertainment service platform.” Google, Apple […]