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Thu 30 Apr 2009

SearchBiz: AOL Spin Off, Yahoo Layoffs, Google Losses, IAC Spoons And Pines For AOL

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Biz

The biggest SearchBiz news of the week is about AOL’s forthcoming spin off and related personnel moves. Time Warner yesterday announced quarterly revenues and a whopping $16 billion loss (not the largest in the company’s history). For its part, AOL’s ad revenues fell roughly 20 percent to $867 million from $1.13 billion the previous year. [...]

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Mon 27 Apr 2009

Who’s Coming & Going In The Search Industry?

Posted by Admin under Google: Employees, Latest Info, Microsoft: Employees, Search Biz, Yahoo: Employees

Over the weekend, there seemed to be a lot of activity on people coming and going at search companies. I figured I sum up some of those moves in a short post here.

Former Googler Douglas Bowman, who resigned from Google due to Google being too data centric has taken a job at Twitter, according [...]

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Fri 27 Feb 2009

Search Biz: Google News Courting Legal Trouble?, Bold Predictions About Behavioral Ad Targeting & More

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Biz

Will the recent introduction of paid ads on Google News lead to legal issues for Google? That question is discussed today on ClickZ, where Sandra Baron of the Media Law Resource Center says publishers will be looking at what Google is doing:
“A significant issue for content providers is whether or not what Google provides becomes [...]

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Wed 18 Feb 2009

SearchBiz Legal Edition: Varney Uses The “M Word,” More AdWords Litigation, Yahoo Lawyer Files Complaint — Against Yahoo

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Biz

If Christine A. Varney is confirmed as the head of anti-trust for the US Justice Department it may signal tough times ahead for Big G. Bloomberg discusses public remarks that Obama nominee Varney made before the American Antitrust Institute about Google in a June, 2008 speech:
The U.S. economy will “continually see a problem — potentially [...]

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Mon 2 Feb 2009

SearchBiz: MicroHoo Redux, MySpace ‘Dissed’ By Yahoo, Microsoft Hiring In Search

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Biz

I was reminded by CNET that it was exactly a year ago when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made his bold, unsolicited bid for Yahoo. It seems like a lifetime ago, certainly for the economy it is. CNET’s Stephen Shankland speculates about what might have been if the offer had been accepted by Yahoo rather than [...]

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Tue 27 Jan 2009

Search Biz: Yahoo Earnings, Google Lobbying, Tech Stimulus, Best Places To Work & Making PCs ‘History’

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Biz

Just like the US economy, things at Yahoo may get worse before they get better; the company reports earnings today at 5 p.m. Eastern. The general expectation is they’ll be down.
Yahoo may have been hit hard by the weakness in online display advertising. And new CEO Carol Bartz will be on the hot seat as [...]

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Fri 9 Jan 2009

Search Biz: Yahoo CEO Duel, MSFT Reconsiders Search Brand, MSN ‘Lewd’ In China & Google Won’t Buy Newspapers

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Biz

SearchBiz today rounds up some items from the last 24 hours. Most of them concern personnel moves or speculation about who might get the top spot at Yahoo. Then there’s the ongoing MicroHoo saga and whether a new CEO will restart talks with Redmond. There’s also the matter of MSN being branded a “lewd” site [...]

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Wed 7 Jan 2009

Search Biz: Yahoo-MSFT Update; Google’s 20% Time Changing & Google Router Coming Soon?

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Biz

The latest twist in the Yahoo-Microsoft saga comes from TechCrunch, which reports that a new group is trying to takeover Yahoo … with Microsoft’s money. The group is made up of investment bankers and Silicon Valley big-wigs, and Microsoft would loan the group the money to make it happen. If it sounds a bit complicated, [...]

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Mon 22 Dec 2008

Search Biz: MSFT Layoff Rumors, Google Chrome Complicates Mozilla Relationship & More

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Biz

There are several gloom-and-doom reports in circulation today about Google, Microsoft, Web 2.0, and the entire Internet sector, for that matter — not exactly how you’d like to start out a holiday week, but so be it. Let’s get started, shall we?
First up, we’ll hit the rumor mill. The Mini-Microsoft blog is getting and posting [...]

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Fri 19 Dec 2008

Search Biz: YouTube Growing Up, Google Owns Ad Serving Market & More

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Biz

It wasn’t too long ago that YouTube was mostly a haven for the video expressions of teens and young adults; popular clips often showed skateboard crashes, air guitar contests, and bedroom renditions of Numa Numa. But now, as the site continues to grow in popularity, it seems YouTube is…

 

Wed 17 Dec 2008

SearchBiz: Microsoft Search GM Leaving, Twitter Gets Serious About Revenue, Yahoo Shuttering Jumpcut Rumor & Google Gives Good License

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Biz

Microsoft’s GM of search product management (on the marketing side), Brad Goldberg, is leaving the company to become CEO of online business at investment firm Peak6. This doesn’t impact the technical side of search at Microsoft, which just hired former Yahoo search exec Qi Lu to head up…

 

Mon 15 Dec 2008

SearchBiz: Google “Less Trusted,” Eric Schmidt On Meet The Press, Yahooligans “Vote” For New CEO, Microsoft Releases First iPhone App, Mobile To Be Primary Internet By 2020

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Biz

The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that Google is negotiating with ISPs for “a fast lane for its own content” and is backing away from net neutrality. However, Google vigorously disputes this characterization and explains that instead it is seeking to…

 

Wed 10 Dec 2008

Search Biz: Ex-Yahoos Doing Well; Yahoo Shutters Brickhouse; Google Chrome Out Of Beta Soon & More

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Biz

With Yahoo layoffs underway, Forbes shares a reminder that there is life after a layoff, and it’s sometimes better. Forbes tells the story of ex-Yahoo bizdev guy Rob Bailey, who left the company in 2006, and is now an award-winning winemaker. While Big Business is laying people off left and…

 

Fri 5 Dec 2008

Search Biz: Ballmer Talks Yahoo Deal; Google Slows Down In NC & Fires Back At Net Neutrality Critics

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Biz

In a fairly lengthy interview this morning, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tells the Wall Street Journal that he’s still interested in a deal with Yahoo, but says there are no talks happening right now. Perhaps to get that ball rolling again, though, Ballmer says a deal “would probably be…

 

Thu 4 Dec 2008

Search Biz: Yahoo Wants A New CEO, And Fast; Qi Lu To MSFT?; DOJ Was This Close To Suing Google

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Biz

Will Yahoo have a new CEO by the end of the month? That’s the word from sources talking to AllThingsD today. The report says Yahoo has put together an informal search committee to help executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles find a new CEO. There’s reportedly a list of six…

 

Wed 3 Dec 2008

SearchBiz: The Economy Takes Its Toll On Google & Why Twitter Rejected Facebook’s Acquisition Overtures

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Biz

The buzz today comes from the Wall Street Journal article, which you’ve probably already seen, called “Google Gears Down for Tougher Times.” In a related post, Silicon Alley Insider summarizes the piece with more than a hint of schadenfreude.
The thrust of the WSJ story is that…

 

Tue 2 Dec 2008

Search Biz: Yahoo Soap Opera Update; Google’s Mobile Plans; Ask.com’s Creepy Commercials & More

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Search Biz

The Yahoo-Microsoft-AOL soap opera continues. (You expected otherwise?) At AllThingsD, Kara Swisher was pretty adamant Monday that Yahoo and Microsoft are not in secret talks right now about a new search partnership, and she called the weekend report from The Times (UK) “inaccurate.”…

 

Mon 1 Dec 2008

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

Posted by Admin under 1, Latest Info, Search Biz

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…

 

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