SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 17, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
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Google Launches “Universal Search” & Blended Results
Google is undertaking the most radical change to its search results ever, introducing a “Universal Search” system that will blend listings from its news, video, images, local and book search engines among those it gathers from crawling web pages. The new system officially rolls out today for anyone using Google.com and searching in English. Not everyone will see it […]
Google Searchology Day: Recap Of Announcements
It’s Searchology Day today at Google, where the company is devoting time to look at the past, present and future of search at Google. There will be a number of significant announcements coming out of the event. Want to keep up? Stay tuned to this page. We’ll keep it updated with a summary of major […]
Yahoo Fills CFO Position With Blake Jorgensen
Yahoo has appointed Blake Jorgensen as its new chief financial officer. Jorgensen was the co-founder of Thomas Weisel Partners, a company he helped start in 1998. He takes over from Susan Decker, who has been jointly serving as CFO and as head of the new Advertiser & Publisher Group, formed as part of Yahoo’s December […]
Yahoo To Close Yahoo Auctions
Yahoo has announced that they will be closing Yahoo Auctions in the United States and Canada as of June 16, 2007. Yahoo Auctions will continue in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Clearly, Yahoo has thrown in the towel when it comes to fighting eBay in the auction space, Instead, the company recently partnered up even […]
MySpace To Buy Photobucket For $300 Million
Valleywag broke the news that MySpace would be acquiring Photobucket for about $300 million.
Microsoft & Yahoo Said To Be Talking Merger, Cooperation
Both the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal are reporting that sources say Microsoft and Yahoo are talking again about how they might merge or cooperate.
YouTube To Share Revenues With Popular Users
YouTube Elevates Most Popular Users to Partners from the YouTube blog covers how YouTube is now starting a "user-partner" program on an invite-only basis, to allow those producing content on YouTube and growing a large audience to share in revenues that YouTube earns. From the post:
Goodbye Yahoo Photos; Yahoo Loves Flickr More
TechCrunch and USA Today have news that Yahoo is to close its popular Yahoo Photos service completely in the coming months, telling people to either switch to Flickr or leave to a number of other competing photo sharing services. From USA Today: Yahoo has said that it kept both services going after the acquisition because […]
Digg Gives In To User Revolt; Are Those DMCA Takedown Notices Even Valid?
After a grassroots revolt by Digg users, Digg has decided to stop censoring posts about an HD-DVD decryption number used by the industry-backed Advanced Access Content System to protect HD-DVDs. The AACS claims that anyone publishing the number may be violating US laws against circumvention of copy protection. How the story unfolded below, plus more […]
Microsoft After 24/7; Another Search Engine To Own SEM Firm?
Yahoo said it would acquire an ad network yesterday, in reaction to Google’s plans to expand its own ad network by acquiring DoubleClick. Now in One Giant Leap, the New York Post reports rumors that Microsoft might want to buy ad management company 24/7 Real Media. What’s wrong with this picture? The same thing wrong […]
Google Responds To Viacom Case: Bring On The Jury
Google has responded to the copyright infringement case filed against it by Viacom over video content on YouTube. Key takeaway? Google says the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions protect it from liability and wants a jury trial to prove its innocence. Several sources have covered the story already, so I’ll do a round-up of what’s being […]
Yahoo To Acquire Right Media; Joins Google In Buying, Rather Than Building, Display Ad Network
Yahoo has announced it will acquire Right Media, which operates an auction-based display ad exchange called Remix Media. The move is widely seen as Yahoo fighting back against Google’s recent plans to acquire DoubleClick, which itself is seen as Google jumping more firmly into the display ad network game. Both moves to me underscore how […]
Google Search History Expands, Becomes Web History
Google’s Search History feature, which was switched on as a default option for many Google searchers in February, has now been renamed Web History to reflect how it has expanded to track what Google users do as they surf the web. It’s a huge move for Google and raises anew privacy issues. Below, a detailed […]
Google’s Q1 2007 Profit & Revenue Rises Over 60%
Google announced first quarter earnings for 2007 showed revenues of $3.66 billion, an increase of 63% compared to the first quarter of 2006 — and an increase in profits of 69%. You can see the financial tables for the first quarter of 2007, plus the earnings call is archived, and a full transcript will be […]
Gphone? The Google Phone Timeline
Rumor after rumor after rumor keeps appearing that Google is to release its own mobile phone, the Gphone. In April 2007, we originally compiled all these Google Phone rumors into a timeline view. Since then, we’ve continued to update the list, so that the confused, perplexed or just plain curious can keep track of what’s […]
Despite Panama, Yahoo Earnings Fall 11 Percent — Investments Blamed
Last night Yahoo posted (PDF) their 2007 first quarter earnings. Yahoo showed a decline in their profits by 11 percent. Revenue was up about 9 percent, excluding certain payments to partners. However, MarketWatch notes “the revenue Yahoo generates for every search using its Internet search engine dipped in the quarter by about 7%, contributing to […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 17, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google’s Schmidt: YouTube’s “Claim Your Content” Copyright Protection Service Nearly Ready
Schmidt says YouTube ‘very close’ to filtering system from News.com reports that Google CEO Eric Schmidt says his company is extremely close to launching the much anticipated but very delayed content identification system.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 16, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Dodgeball Founders Crowley & Rainert Quit Google In Frustration
Dennis Crowley, cofounder of Dodgeball, which was acquired by Google in May 2005, has announced his resignation and that of Dodgeball’s other cofounder Alex Rainert:
Paid Links Under Scrutiny By Google Again
Matt Cutts of Google has written two posts this weekend on links to start a mountain of discussion in the SEO community. How to report paid links and Hidden links from Matt Cutts discussed how Google is in the process of testing out new methods to detect and handle paid links and their impact on […]
Google To Acquire DoubleClick For $3.1 Billion
Google Buys DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion from the New York Times has news that Google has reached an agreement to buy DoubleClick for the sum of $3.1 billion. There was speculation in the past that Google and DoubleClick were in talks, so now that has been confirmed. With this purchase, Google now has access to […]
CBS To Distribute TV Shows Via MSN & AOL According To WSJ
CBS’s Web Reach to Grow from the Wall Street Journal reports that CBS is close to announcing a deal with MSN and AOL over distributing some of their TV shows and other video programming.
Search Engines Unite On Sitemaps Autodiscovery
Last November, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo united to support sitemaps, a standardized method of submitting web pages through feeds to the search engines. Today, the three are now joined by Ask.com in supporting the system and an extension of it called autodiscovery. This is where the major search engines will automatically locate your sitemaps file […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 10, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Acquires Stake In Maxthon Browser?
Google Takes Partial Ownership Of Maxthon Browser from TechCrunch covers rumors that Google has purchased a minority stake in the Maxthon Browser and that a much larger deal between the two companies is in the works. See related discussion on this via Techmeme.
Yahoo Strikes Broad Search Deal With Viacom
In a multi-year, wide ranging deal Yahoo will provide paid search and contextual ads to 33 Viacom-owned sites, including MTV.com, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. This is a nice win for Yahoo and an endorsement of Panama and related technology and there’s no mention of Google anywhere, but it partly also has to be seen as […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 9, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Del.icio.us Improves Firefox Bookmarks Extension
The del.icio.us blog announced an upgrade to their Firefox extension that enables the easy bookmarking of pages. The changes include: Searching and browsing your bookmarks can be done directly in your Firefox browser You can edit your bookmarks within Firefox You can define which tags to display in the Firefox toolbar also For a full […]
WSJ Covers Ask.com’s “Information Revolution” Ad Campaign
Ask.Com’s ‘Revolt’ Risks Costly Clicks from the Wall Street Journal weighs in on the Ask.com guerrilla marketing campaign we covered last month, especially focusing on the negative comments that have appeared on the associated web site. The article also highlighting the television commercials now airing. I’ve seen these myself on TV here, and a video […]
DoubleClick Establishing Nasdaq-Like Ad Exchange
The New York Times is reporting that DoubleClick is setting up an auction-based ad exchange, a “mix of eBay and Sabre, the airline reservations system that travel agents use.” “The service will let advertisers see information about what competitors bid for particular ads, in the same way that eBay shows visitors past bids. And it […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 4, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google Desktop Now Out For Mac
Want Google Desktop for the Mac? More than two years after it was released for the PC, it’s finally available for the Mac, says Google (and said also here). And here’s what Mac folks are saying about it on Techmeme.
Google TV Ads: Google Brings Auction Model To TV Advertising
Rumored and written about for several weeks, Google is in fact launching a beta trial of TV ads with cable company Astound and satellite TV provider Echostar, which owns Dish Network. Astound operates in selected cities in Northern California. But Dish Network is national. Interestingly, Dish Network is highly interactive, with the ability to search […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 2, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Google In Talks To Buy DoubleClick
Google joins race to buy DoubleClick: report from MarketWatch reports that Google is now interested in buying DoubleClick, a provider of internet ad serving software. Now that Google is vying against Microsoft for DoubleClick, the estimates on the purchase price have jumped “beyond $2 billion.” Other potential buyers include Yahoo and AOL. More discussion covered […]
TiSP: Google Flushes Free Wireless Broadband For All
Now posted on the Google Blog, news of the new Google TiSP service offering free wireless to homes via their, ahem, plumbing systems. Sir Thomas Crapper would be proud. See discussion at Techmeme. Google’s latest feature will better connect you with previous Google products that have been rolled out on the first of April: Google […]
The “Is Google Too Powerful” Question Raised Once Again
Is Google Too Powerful? from BusinessWeek is a fresh look at an old topic on Google’s continued growth and power. A key part of the BusinessWeek’s article: Googlezon, GoogleWorld, just plain Google—whatever you call it, it’s scaring the wits out of everyone from the power lunchers of Hollywood to Madison Avenue ad moguls to Silicon […]
Yahoo Adds API Web Services For Yahoo Mail
Yahoo has announced the availability of the Yahoo Mail Web Service. This new offering will allow developers to use API protocols, via SOAP or JSON-RPC, to connect to the Yahoo mail platform. This enables 3rd party authorized access to list email messages, compose new message, send email, read email and so on, all from outside […]