Archive for the ‘Search Engines’ Category
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007
Online search engine Google recently accused Microsoft Corporation of building in an unfair edge for their own suite of products into their newest operating system, Vista.
They just filed a complaint with the Department Of Justice.
Google says that Microsoft is violating a 2002 antitrust decree which states that they have ...
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
Content is King, as people will always tell you. But is there a situation where you can have too much content? Certainly Google is indicating this might be the case with their "Supplemental Index." If they determine that a page isn't worth of inclusion in their main ...
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Monday, June 11th, 2007
Over the weekend I spent some time looking for information on a number of different topics and a couple of websites came up repeatedly in Google's results.
Wikipedia.org and About.com came up the big winners.
I'm not saying that these websites are bad, but seeing them come up over and over in ...
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Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Today Ebay announced that they have acquired Stumbleupon, a software company that runs an opt in toolbar that suggests websites based on user preferences.
The company was founded by 3 programmers in Calgary in 2001 and was financed with Venture Capital.
The Stumbleupon toolbar costs nothing for web surfers to run. ...
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
In the coming days don't be surprised if your Google query brings unfamiliar looking search results. Google just announced that they've done a significant update to their search engine and will start integrating videos from Youtube, photos, books and other services.
Come to find out Google has been laying the groundwork ...
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
Today Yahoo announced that they have hired Blake Jorgensen to take the position of CFO (Chief Financial Officer.) Mr. Jorgenson is a veteran investment banker that was one of the bigwigs for one of Silicon Valley's most prolific dealmakers, Thomas Weisel.
Most recently, Jorgensen was co-director of investment banking for ...
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Joost, a website that brings TV shows to the internet just announced that they've raised 45 million dollars of funding through a number of major investors.
Viacom recently selected Joost to license content and is one of the investors.
Other investors include CBS Corp, Index Ventures, a major venture capital ...
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Microsoft has been going long on internet properties. Today the world's largest software maker announced that they were buying a 4% stake in the internet job search portal, Careerbuilder.com.
Careerbuilder is owned by Gannett Co. Inc. and Tribune Company, which are both newspaper publishers. They each share a 40.8% stake in ...
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Monday, May 7th, 2007
About.com (Parent company, The New York Times) recently announced that they were buying Consumersearch.com, a consumer shopping directory for 33 million dollars.
Consumersearch.com is a meta search engine that spiders the web (like Google) to find relevant reviews and information on products, services and other content. It generates revenue from ...
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Friday, May 4th, 2007
The search industry is highly competitive and the next big move out of Microsoft could be to just go buy out Yahoo.
The New York Post reported Friday that Microsoft has asked Yahoo to enter formal negotiations for an acquisition that could be worth $50 billion. Yahoo's market capitalization was ...
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