Mon 25 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Ask: General, Ask: Promotions, Latest Info
Ask UK (uk.ask.com) has a new game where you can dress up the lovable Jeeves character. Just search for [want to dress up jeeves] at Ask UK and you will be presented the opportunity to place khakis on the famous butler. You can dress up Jeeves at uk.ask.com/dressupjeeves.
UTalkMarketing.com reported “Gieves and Hawkes together with [...]
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Mon 18 Jan 2010
Posted by Admin under Ask: General, Google: Logos, Latest Info, Microsoft: Bing, SEM Industry: General, Yahoo: General
Today is Martin Luther King, Jr day and the search engines are showing off their logos and themes for the special day. Below you can see logos from Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines. In addition, check out the 2009 and 2008 logos, if you missed them the previous years.
Google’s [...]
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Thu 31 Dec 2009
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
Posted by Admin under Ask: General, Google: Logos, Latest Info, Microsoft: Bing, SEM Industry: General, Top News, Yahoo: General
As many of you know, Google started their holiday logo blitz earlier this week. Google has now posted four of (I believe) five logos they have for the holidays. We also have logos from Yahoo, Bing, Ask, DogPile, Baidu and many other search engines and search industry web sites. I wanted to [...]
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Tue 1 Dec 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: General, Google: Logos, Latest Info, Yahoo: General
Today is World AIDS Day and Google, Yahoo and Ask.com all have the red bow on their home pages. In addition, Google has a blog post showing how they are supporting the day and asking everyone to either “include #red to turn your tweets the color red or if you like, follow @joinred.”
In addition, [...]
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Wed 25 Nov 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: General, Ask: Sponsored Listings, Features: Analysis, Google: Web Search, Latest Info, Stats: Relevancy, Top News
I said from time to time, I’d highlight some bad search results I come across. Here’s a killer — a top ranking for us national anthem on Google that when you click on it brings up random web sites that have nothing to do with the song. Behind the scenes, there’s an Ask.com connection. Let’s [...]
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Wed 18 Nov 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: Business Issues, Ask: General, Ask: Other, Ask: Web Search, Latest Info
If you’re the number four search engine in a market that is looking like it’s going to be about two (maybe three) players in the long run, what do you do? If you’re Barry Diller and running the parent company of Ask, the search engine in question, you’re potentially looking at selling, with Microsoft as [...]
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Thu 5 Nov 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: General, Latest Info, Legal: General, Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Outside US, Microsoft: Partnerships, Yahoo: Outside US
There’s a report from Reuters this morning that Microsoft and Yahoo are considering expanding the scope of their search deal “outside the United States”:
Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday the company could look to extend its search engine partnership with Yahoo (YHOO.O) outside the United States, if it gets regulatory approval.
Wasn’t that already [...]
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Sat 31 Oct 2009
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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Mon 5 Oct 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: General, Ask: Maps, Ask: Mobile, Latest Info
Online coupons have been around for many years, at least a decade. Despite this no publisher or site has arisen to yet win the space. There’s no Facebook of coupons, no Twitter of coupons and, dare I say it, no Google of coupons. Google itself would seem to have missed or mishandled the opportunity with [...]
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Mon 7 Sep 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: General, Google: Logos, Latest Info, Microsoft: Bing, SEM Industry: General, Top News
Happy Labor Day Search Engine Land readers! Due to the U.S. holiday, we will likely have limited coverage here today. Go out and enjoy the unofficial last day of summer! If you are stuck at work, like me, here are some logos from the search industry to hopefully brighten your day. [...]
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Sun 21 Jun 2009
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 25 May 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: General, Google: Logos, Latest Info, Microsoft: Live Search, Top News, Yahoo: General
Today is Memorial Day, so please expect lighter then normal coverage here. I have
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Tue 12 May 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: Ask 3D, Ask: Business Issues, Ask: General, Latest Info, Top News
According to the Wall Street Journal, Ask.com CEO Jim Safka is leaving the company. He will become the head of Chegg, Inc., which rents textbooks to students online. The decision to leave is apparently Safka’s, for personal reasons. Longtime Ask executive Scott Garell will take over as “President of Ask Networks.”
In its most recent [...]
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Sun 10 May 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: General, Google: Logos, Latest Info, Microsoft: General, SEM Industry: General, Top News, Yahoo: General
The Search Engine Land team would like to wish you a Happy Mother’s Day today. As tradition, I like to post the various logos from the search industry, to help celebrate the day. Here are the Mother’s Day logos.
Google:
Yahoo (animated):
AOL (animated):
Live.com:
Ask.com:
Google Maps changed the Street Views guy to a mom and son:
Search Engine [...]
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Wed 22 Apr 2009
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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Thu 26 Mar 2009
Posted by Admin under Ask: General, Ask: Promotions, Latest Info
If you visit Ask.com today, you may notice that they have ads for their sister sites. Here is a picture of Ask.com with a Match.com ad, an IAC property.
Currently, Ask.com is the only “search engine” to have display ads on their search home page. I’ll leave my negative thoughts to myself this time.
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Tue 17 Mar 2009
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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