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Thu 31 Dec 2009

Happy New Years 2010 Search Logos & Google’s Surprise

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, Ask: General, Google: Logos, Latest Info, Microsoft: Bing, SEM Industry: General, Search Engines: Baidu, Top News, Yahoo: General

Happy New Years! The Search Engine Land team would like to wish everyone a happy, healthy and successful 2010. Just for fun, I wanted to share the various logos from the search engines and also Google’s surprise.
Let’s start with Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” count down to New Years. Remember when [...]

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Thu 24 Dec 2009

AOL To Cut Staff By One-Third

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, Latest Info

In a Security and Exchange document filed on Tuesday night, AOL plans on cutting about one-third of their staff, about 2,300 people. The filing said, “the Restructuring will include the reduction of approximately a third of the Company’s current employee base, which will be conducted on a voluntary and involuntary basis.”
AOL became an independent [...]

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Tue 22 Dec 2009

MapQuest Integrates Citysearch Content

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, AOL: MapQuest, Latest Info

MapQuest or variations on its name represent five of the top 22 search queries in the travel category (in November) according to Hitwise. However Google Maps is solidly in first place now as the top mapping site online. That puts MapQuest in the position of having to figure out whether to be content with its [...]

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Thu 10 Dec 2009

AOL Returns As Independent Company, Search Decision Looms

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, AOL: Local, AOL: MapQuest, AOL: Mobile, Latest Info

Yesterday was the first day of trading for the “new” AOL, an independent company with a market cap of $2.5 billion dollars. When AOL “bought” TimeWarner a decade ago in an all-stock transaction worth $182 billion there was a near consensus that the combined company represented the future of media and publishing. It made a [...]

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Mon 23 Nov 2009

What’s In A Brand? AOL Becomes “Aol.”

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, AOL: MapQuest, AOL: Video, Latest Info

One wonders how much the branding consultancy Wolff Olins was paid to help create America Online’s new “brand identity.” Over the weekend the about-to-be-independent company revealed its new brand and brand philosophy. The major change (so far) is the move from uppercase to lowercase letters: from “AOL” to “Aol.” Here’s how the release describes that [...]

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Sat 31 Oct 2009

Halloween ‘09 From Google, Yahoo, Bing & Others

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, Ask: General, Google: Logos, Latest Info, Microsoft: General, SEM Industry: Community, Top News, Yahoo: General

Today is Halloween and the search engines have logos up for the special day. Before I post the logos, here are some posts from others in the community on Halloween.
Matt Cutts of Google had a holy costume. Google Blogoscoped noticed Google added trick or treat to their robots.txt file. Bing has [...]

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Tue 29 Sep 2009

Shashi Seth, Another Ex-Googler, Lands At AOL

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, Google: Employees, Latest Info

AOL announced today that it’s hired former Google employee Shashi Seth as its Senior VP of Global Advertising Products. While with Google, Seth was head of monetization for YouTube. Most recently he was the Chief Revenue Officer for Cooliris.
AOL’s addition of Seth is the latest in a series of hirings from the search industry — [...]

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Tue 8 Sep 2009

Brad Garlinghouse To Run AOL’s Email, IM & Venture Units From West Coast

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, AOL: MapQuest, Latest Info

Brad Garlinghouse, who was previously an SVP at Yahoo, and the author of the now famous “Peanut Butter Manifesto,” is joining AOL as president of Internet and Mobile communications. What this means is that he’ll be responsibile for email, IM and other communications tools, which implicates a range of properties including Bebo.
According to the press [...]

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Mon 27 Jul 2009

AOL Value Sinks: Google Sells 5 Percent Interest For $283M

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, Google: Business Issues, Google: Legal, Google: Partnerships, Latest Info

In anticipation of a spin off/IPO for AOL, TimeWarner bought back Google’s 5 percent interest in the company for $283 million dollars. Google originally purchased the equity stake in AOL in 2005 to preserve its search relationship with its largest partner and fend of Microsoft, which was seeking a potential deal with or acquisition of [...]

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Mon 20 Jul 2009

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong: “The Model Is Disney”

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, AOL: MapQuest, AOL: Search Marketplace, Google: Partnerships, Latest Info

It’s been roughly 100 days since Tim Armstrong was named CEO of AOL in anticipation of a spin-off/IPO of the company from corporate parent TimeWarner later this year. There are a slew of interviews out this morning in which Armstrong assesses his first 100 days, the state of the business and gives some indications of [...]

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Sun 21 Jun 2009

Happy Father’s Day From Google & Others

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, Ask: General, Google: Logos, Latest Info, Microsoft: Bing, SEM Industry: Community, Yahoo: General

We wanted to wish all the fathers out there a happy Father’s Day from all of us at Search Engine Land. To celebrate, below is a collection of some of the logos from Google and the rest of the industry. Happy Father’s Day!
Google:

Yahoo:

AOL:

DogPile:

Bing:

Ask.com:

Cre8asite Forums:

Search Engine Roundtable:

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Mon 27 Apr 2009

SEOs Say AOL’s Love.com Feels More Like A One-Night Stand

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, Latest Info, SEO: Duplicate Content, SEO: Spamming

AOL recently soft-launched Love.com, which it advertises as a collection of “topic blogs” that “provide a central view into what the world is loving now.”
But it’s really an SEO play. Give the site any subdomain under the sun, and Love.com will make a new site on-the-fly with content scraped from news sites, blogs, YouTube [...]

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Wed 22 Apr 2009

Earth Day Logos From Google, Yahoo & Others

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, Ask: General, Google: Logos, Latest Info, Microsoft: General, SEM Industry: General, Top News, Yahoo: General

Happy Earth Day everyone! Like last year we wanted to post a collection of the logos created by the search engines for today. Here they are:

For the animated versions of Yahoo and AOL’s logo, see my post at the Search Engine Roundtable and for past years, see 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and [...]

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Fri 20 Mar 2009

Spring Is Here, Search Engine Logos For The Day

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, Google: Logos, Latest Info, Microsoft: Live Search, SEM Industry: Community

Today in the Northern Hemisphere, it is the first day of Spring. The search engines, excluding Yahoo, have special logos for the day. Let me share them with you.
Google’s logo was designed by Eric Carle:

AOL has a Flash animated logo:

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Tue 17 Mar 2009

St. Patrick’s Day Search Logos, Maps & Images

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, Ask: General, Google: Logos, Latest Info, Microsoft: Marketing, Top News, Yahoo: General

Today is St. Patrick’s Day and the search engines have created special logos and maps for the day. Let’s start of with a collage of logos, that I compiled at the Search Engine Roundtable.

The Live Search Blog has a blog post that shows how Live Search Maps has several maps that shows few [...]

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Thu 12 Mar 2009

Google Exec Tim Armstrong Named New AOL Chairman & CEO

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, Features: Analysis, Google: Employees, Latest Info, Top News

One of Google’s longest serving executives, Tim Armstrong, is departing the company to become AOL’s new chairman and CEO, replacing existing chair and CEO Randy Falco. From the AOL release:
Tim Armstrong, Google Senior Vice President, has been named Chairman and CEO of AOL, LLC, Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes announced today. [...]

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Sat 14 Feb 2009

Happy Valentine’s Day From Google & Others

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, Ask: General, Google: Logos, Latest Info, Microsoft: General, SEM Industry: General, Top News, Yahoo: General

Valentine’s Day is being celebrated around the world and today, Google had not one, but two different logos, depending on where in the world you accessed Google. Plus, search engines like Yahoo, Live, Ask and others had their special logos. Below is a compilation of logos that I collected throughout the day, the [...]

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Mon 19 Jan 2009

Google & Others Martin Luther King Jr.’s Logos

Posted by Admin under AOL: General, Ask: General, Google: Logos, Latest Info, Microsoft: General, SEM Industry: General, Yahoo: General

Like last year, today, the search engines are commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I attached a collage of logos and themes from the various search engines, including Google, Yahoo, AOL, Live.com, Ask.com and Dogpile.

To see them all in greater detail, you can visit their respective home pages today or go to the Search [...]

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