SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 29, 2009
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Topic: Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo Layoffs On Dec. 10 & At $11 Yahoo Now Significantly Undervalued?
AllThingsD reports that Yahoo’s previously announced 10 percent reduction in force (layoffs) is set to begin on December 10. However, the post also says that chief Yahoo, CEO Jerry Yang, is not considering leaving his post for now. (NOTE: See update, Jerry Yang Stepping Down As CEO; Resuming Chief Yahoo Role). Yahoo stock is hovering […]
Searching Yahoo’s Hack Day 2008
Yahoo hosted Hack Day this weekend, the Yahoo Yodel Anecdotal blog has four blog posts on the event: The hackers are back “6 PM Food, Beer & Games” Talkin’ about Girl Talk Highlights from Open Hack Day The event looked incredibly fun! I just wanted to highlight the demo’s that took place that involved search. […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 17, 2008
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Yahoo The Failure: Myth Versus Reality
As SS Yahoo appears to be sinking, let me be the contrarian about her future. I admit, I find it as hard to believe as anyone that Yahoo has much life left in it after all the executive departures this week, plus the latest news of Delicious founder Joshua Schacter going. But since Yahoo’s leadership […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 8, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 16, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 11, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 8, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 12, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 11, 2008
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New AOL Finance Gains Market Share To Become Top Site
TechCrunch is reporting comScore data that shows AOL’s new finance site (which we wrote about here) passing Yahoo Finance and MSN Money to become the internet’s top finance destination. If these traffic numbers are accurate, it would be a very striking development — especially beating out Yahoo, which has held the top finance position seemingly […]
Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review
Each month, I compile Search Month — a recap of all the stories that have happened relating to search, categorized by topic. I thought it would be fun to take all the Search Months over the past year and produce this edition of Search Year 2007. It was far more work than I imagined, but […]
Who’s Ranking For Knol? Hello, Wikipedia!
Ah, sweet irony. Yesterday I spent some time raising concerns about knowledge aggregation sites like Wikipedia and the forthcoming Google Knol potentially ranking tops for every search conducted. Today, what’s in the top results for Knol? Yep — a new Wikipedia page on the topic! The page was created yesterday and took less than 24 […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 13, 2007
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Yahoo Adds Integrated Shortcuts For WordPress Blogs
The Yahoo Search Blog announced a new WordPress plugin that automatically creates Yahoo Shortcuts for the words you write in a blog post. If you mention a stock ticker, that word on your blog will typically contain a mouse-over effect that will display a Yahoo Finance chart. Or if you have an address, they might […]
Yahoo Does Deals With Cars.com, CNBC, Renews Deal With InfoSpace
Yahoo Autos has swapped out previous partner, AutoTrader, and replaced it with a broader editorial content and listings deal from newspaper-owned Cars.com. It’s unclear whether Yahoo’s embrace of the newspaper industry had anything to do with the deal. But it promises more content and listings on the site and apparently “marks the first time new […]
TechTicker, Yahoo’s New Tech Focused Investor Portal
Yahoo to Start Internet Program for Technology Investors from the New York Times reports Yahoo is going to launch a new technology finance portal named TechTicker next month. The portal will focus exclusively on technology companies and stocks. Brian Nelson, Yahoo spokesperson, said the portal would offer daily streaming-video segments, blog posts, and live coverage […]
AOL Launches New Money & Finance Site, Powered By Relegence Search Engine
Roughly a year ago, AOL acquired Relegence, a search technology company that offers real-time information and data feeds on a subscription basis to Wall Street professionals. Now AOL is bringing the fruits of that acquisition to a newly redesigned Money & Finance site intended to go head to head with Yahoo Finance, which is the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 25, 2007
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Yahoo’s Ex-CEO, Semel, Sells Off 750,000 Yahoo Shares
Yahoo Chairman Semel exercises options from CNNMoney reports that Terry Semel, Yahoo’s old CEO, has exercised 750,000 options. He exercised options for $15 each and then sold those options for $29 to $29.90 each. You can see the detailed transactions on this SEC filing, which shows he first exercised 500,000 shares at $15 each on […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 18, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 13, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 15, 2007
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Yahoo Finance’s GM, Peggy White, Leaves
Yahoo Finance GM departs from News.com has confirmation that Peggy White, Yahoo Finance’s general manager, has left the company. News of her departure came out via an internal mail posted as a comment in response to Dark Days for Terry Semel, a Conde Nast Portfolio article looking at the company’s management woes
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 14, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 6, 2007
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Q&A With Seth Godin, Founder & CEO Of Social Search Service Squidoo
Seth Godin is widely known as one of the foremost advocates of “permission marketing,” promotional campaigns that don’t rely on interrupting the attention of your customers, but rather engage them and even turn them into enthusiastic advocates that volunteer time and effort to help you promote your products or services. Godin doesn’t shy away from […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 22, 2007
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Keane, Head Of Advertising Sales Strategy At Google Goes To CBS Interactive
CBS Interactive has named Patrick Keane their new Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. Keane was previous Google’s Head Of Advertising Sales Strategy. He worked at Google for four years, where he was “responsible for developing and managing the strategic plans and relationships critical to growing Google’s advertising customer base.” At CBS Interactive, Keane […]
Yahoo Introduces Personal Finance Site
Gary Price reports that Yahoo has launched a new site, named Yahoo Personal Finance. News.com explains that this new sub-site offers “free tools and how-to guides for tax planning, budgeting, real estate planning, and saving for college and retirement.” Gary explains they offer additional tools such as: financial calculators for mortgages, budgeting, and more. They […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 12, 2007
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Google: Free Real-Time Quotes Here To Stay
Many financial web sites, including Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, Forbes and others were offering free real-time quotes to users until last fall, when the New York Stock Exchange increased the fees it charged for displaying market data. In response, many of these firms teamed up to form NetCoalition.com, a Washington trade group that petitioned the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 11, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, Dec. 22, 2006
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web: Danny, I and the rest of the Search Engine Land crew would like to wish you all a Happy Holidays!