This day in search marketing history: February 13
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Topic: News Corporation
SearchCap: Google+ In Search, Bing Image Update, RTBF & Mistaken Google Penalties
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Image Search Updates Include Touch Friendly Result Pages That Adapt To Screen Size & Resolution Over the next few weeks, Bing is rolling out new updates to its image search […]
Ross Levinsohn: Yahoo’s New Executive Vice President of Americas
Yahoo announced they have appointed a new executive vice president of the Americas region. Levinsohn will report directly to CEO Carol Bartz and be responsible for company’s media group, advertising sales, and partnerships for the Americas region. Levinsohn was the co-founder and managing director of Fuse Capital, an investment and strategic equity management firm. He […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 21, 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: Google On Break Up: Cut Us In Half, They’d Demand Quarters Google isn’t mincing words in response to reports yesterday that a consumer advocacy group thinks the government should break up […]
He Calls Google A Vampire, But Mark Cuban’s Mahalo Is Doing The Sucking
Yesterday, Mark Cuban warned media owners in a keynote speech that Google is a vampire trying to suck them dry, giving them nothing back and daring owners to block it. This is the same Mark Cuban who is an investor in Mahalo, which touts to advertisers how it taps into Google to generate page views. […]
Where’s AP In Google News? Apparently In Limbo, As Contract Running Out
It’s been noticed that new Associated Press stories — hosted by Google itself — are no longer appearing in Google News. It’s true. Since Dec. 24, Google has no longer added new AP content, something the company confirmed with me today. I received this statement: We have a licensing agreement with the Associated Press that […]
Google Launches Real Time Search Results
So finally, we’ve got Google Real Time search, as the company has announced. Below, I’m doing a quick hit on what’s it is, how to use it and how it compares to that last Google real time search thing you may recall hearing about. How do you get it? It’s rolling out over the next […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 12, 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: Why I’m NOT Drinking The “Real-time Local Search” Kool-Aid I’m hearing more and more about “Real-Time Local Search” – that phrase is popping up everywhere; but I’m just not buying the […]
Would Someone Please Explain To News Corp How Google Works?
Yet another News Corporation executive is talking about Google, and yet again, I feel like they have no concept about how Google interacts with their web pages. Which is frightening, since they’re being very vocal about how they’re supposedly wronged by Google. Please, someone, give them a search marketing 101 course. In the latest volley, […]
Live Blogging: Sergey Brin & Eric Schmidt Talking Google With The Press
Google cofounder Sergey Brin and Google CEO Eric Schmidt spoke today to a small gathering of reporters at Google’s New York office. Below, a live blog of the briefing. Note that I’ve tidied this up a bit since the briefing happened at 11am Eastern time. You’ll still find plenty of typos. I may try to […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 22, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchBiz: Google’s Balancing Act, Mr. Schmidt Goes To Washington (?), Yahoo’s Next CEO, Autonomy Jumps The Highway, Black Friday Mixed & The Gift Of Smut-Free Free Internet Access
There’s lots of news today and from over the US holiday weekend. Much of it concerns Yahoo and Google, as it often does in this column. The big buzz generated over the weekend was from the UK’s Times Online report that there was a tentative deal reached between Yahoo and Microsoft to buy the former’s […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 10, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Ask Announces Search Deal With Photobucket
Ask announced that Photobucket has put its search box on the site. Photobucket is owned by MySpace parent News Corp., which has a search deal with Google. The Ask deal with Photobucket includes sponsored listings and other ads. Previously, web search on Photobucket was provided by Google.
Q&A With Bill Macaitis, SVP Online Marketing For Fox Interactive Media
Bill Macaitis is the SVP of Online Marketing for Fox Interactive Media (FIM), which runs a network of entertainment sites including MySpace, Fox Sports, IGN, Photobucket, AskMen, Rotten Tomatoes, American Idol, GameSpy, Scout, and Flektor. The FIM network reaches over 171 million monthly unique visitors. Bill has over 12 years of online marketing experience with […]
OpenSocial Becomes More Open, Facebook Says No; AOL Flamed By Mag; Court Rules Against Clicking Minors
The big news today comes from a trio of major Internet brands. Google, Yahoo, and News Corp.’s MySpace joined forces to announce that OpenSocial, the social networking platform alternative to Facebook’s platform, is going to become a non-profit foundation. As such, it will have a completely separate management and identity from Google and the others […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 18, 2008
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, February 13, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
News Corporation A Potential Partner For Yahoo In Avoiding Microsoft, Google Interest ‘Wanes’
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which had previously said it won’t be competing with Microsoft for Yahoo (largely because it doesn’t have that kind of cash), now emerges as a potential “white knight” in Yahoo’s struggle to a) avoid the Microsoft deal entirely, or b) have a credible bargaining chip to raise the bid. Silicon Alley […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 29, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Hotly Debated Video Destination Hulu Launches In Private Beta
TechCrunch and Techmeme offer lots of discussion and long posts about the NBC Universal and News Corporation joint video venture and challenge to YouTube: Hulu. The site is not yet open to the public but many of the videos it will be streaming can be seen today on distribution partner AOL. There are both full-length […]
Local Is Social By Definition
Several years ago I was having lunch in a restaurant in New York with a couple of Yahoo executives, discussing the challenge of motivating people to rate local businesses. Yahoo was way ahead of the online curve back then, although now ratings and reviews of local businesses are seemingly everywhere online. Indeed, that conversation seems […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 20, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Wired Q&A Interview With Eric Schmidt
Fred Vogelstein, who penned the semi-infamous “How Yahoo Blew It” piece for Wired Magazine, has a long Q&A style interview with Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt in this month’s issue. Here’s a potentially more interesting earlier Vogelstein interview (previously unpublished) with Schmidt for comparison.
News Corp. & NBC To Launch YouTube Competitor
News Corp., NBC pull together to challenge YouTube from the LA Times reports that the two media giants are expected to announce a YouTube-like site as early as today. News Corp. and NBC Universal plan to announce as soon as today that they are creating an online video site stocked with TV shows and movies, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Feb. 8, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
MySpace Passes Yahoo In Page Views But Not Audience
I’ve been waiting for comScore to publicly post figures on November 2006 traffic before pointing to the news of MySpace topping Yahoo in terms of page views. But everyone’s getting into it, so I’ll pass it along now as well.