Will Blinkx Get Bought?
Will Blinkx Get Bought? I got a press call today about Blinkx’s newly announced RSS video/multimedia feed. That quickly led to a broader discussion about...
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News Corp/Fox Buying MySpace
News Corp/Fox Buying MySpace In the emerging tradition of “old media†buying “new media,†Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp announced today that it was acquiring Intermix...
Meta Social Networking Coming Soon
Meta Social Networking Coming Soon One of the points former Tribe CEO Mark Pincus made in his keynote address at Interactive Local Media ‘04 was...
Ask Jeeves Search Advertising Network To Compete with Google?
Ask Jeeves Search Advertising Network To Compete with Google? Yesterday there was a very interesting AP (Michael Liedtke) interview with IAC’s Barry Diller. From the...
SuperPages Upgrades Web Site
SuperPages Upgrades Web Site Verizon SuperPages today announced the relaunch of its site. The new site is better integrated and more user-friendly than the previous...
Yahoo! Adds Metasearch to HotJobs
Yahoo! Adds Metasearch to HotJobs Not wanting to be “disintermediated†by Oodle, SimplyHired, WorkZoo, Indeed and other existing and potential classifieds aggregators, Yahoo!—as reported on...
Newspapers Acquire HomeGain Real Estate Vertical
Newspapers Acquire HomeGain Real Estate Vertical Classified Ventures, a newspaper partnership that includes KRD, Gannett, The Washington Post Co., Belo Interactive and the Tribune Co.,...
Google Earth and Google Maps API
Google Earth and Google Maps API After playing around with Google Earth this morning I’d have to say: it’s really, really cool (to use the...
Yahoo MyWeb 2.0 – Personal and Social Search Collide
Yahoo MyWeb 2.0 – Personal and Social Search Collide The MyWeb upgrade from the original Yahoo! MySearch was a great improvement, allowing users to save...
Google Earth Has Landed
Google Earth Has Landed Google has launched its much anticipated Google Earth (GE) makeover of Keyhole. Dubbed “a 3D interface to the planet,” it’s basically...
eBay ProStores to Build Sites for SMEs
eBay ProStores to Build Sites for SMEs One of the announcements coming out of eBay Live, which I’m merely reading about rather than attending, is...
AOL Unwraps Its New Portal
AOL Unwraps Its New Portal AOL beta-launched its new portal, with certain pieces to follow later (e.g., video, personalization). Internal and external expectations are high...
MSN Local Search Goes Live
MSN Local Search Goes Live Today is the summer solstice, an auspicious day for the beta launch of MSN Local Search. Though late to the...
Google’s Wallet Not Another PayPal
Google’s Wallet Not Another PayPal That’s according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The tantalizing quote from Schmidt was: “The payment services we are working on...
Google Wallet – The Bank of Google
Google Wallet – The Bank of Google Lots of media outlets (here the NY Times) picked up on a story that first appeared in the...
Google Should Buy…
Google Should Buy… John Battelle points to an interesting piece at Kuro5hin, “a tech/culture site,” which reviews Google’s past acquisitions and about who/what the company...
‘Closing the Loop’ with Online Shopping
‘Closing the Loop’ with Online Shopping Articles today in the WSJ and Friday in the DM News argue that the recent acquisitions of Shopzilla and...
Evidence of Pay-per-Call Success
Evidence of Pay-per-Call Success AOL distribution brings a report of success with Ingenio’s pay-per-call for a Cruise Operator. Calls are ultimately a key to local...
Search Engine Map Wars
Search Engine Map Wars Because “war” is the metaphor business journalists like to use for competition and almost everything else. . . welcome to “Map...
Tribune Paper Drops Google AdSense for Quigo
Tribune Paper Drops Google AdSense for Quigo According to an article that appeared in Editor & Publisher, Tribune Co.’s Newsday has abandoned AdSense in favor...
Scripps Grabs Shopzilla
Scripps Grabs Shopzilla Right on the heels of eBay’s costly acquisition of Shopping.com, Cincinnati-based, “diversified media” company E.W. Scripps buys Shopzilla (formerly BizRate). The price...
Online News Papers Face Complexity, Competition Not Found Offline
Online News Papers Face Complexity, Competition Not Found Offline Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Chairman of the NY Times Co., spoke at the 58th World Newspaper Congress...
Google the Advertising Agency
Google the Advertising Agency Over the weekend, Chris Gaither wrote an interesting and entertaining piece in the LA Times about the role of the Google...
Yahoo Tries to Get into the ‘Mindset’ of the User
Yahoo Tries to Get into the ‘Mindset’ of the User John Battelle’s blog points out a new search offering from Yahoo! Labs called “Mindset.” At...
MSN Virtual Earth vs. Google Earth
MSN Virtual Earth vs. Google Earth In the battle of the interactive maps, MSN is seeking to challenge Google’s satellite mapping supremacy with a suite...
Accoona: Time to Worry?
Accoona: Time to Worry? Last Fall general purpose (as opposed to niche) search engine Accoona launched to considerable media fanfare. Yes the name does come...
Blogdigger Local: New Twist on Local Search
Blogdigger Local: New Twist on Local Search I missed Blogdigger’s announcement about the addition of local a few days ago. Local.blogdigger.com appears to be a...
Ask Jeeves Buys Excite Europe
Ask Jeeves Buys Excite Europe Ask Jeeves has acquired Excite Europe from Tiscali for EUR 6.1 millions (an apparent pittance). In March of last year,...
My Google – Personal Google Home Page
My Google – Personal Google Home Page My Google is here. Though that’s not the official name, that’s what the new home page personalization features...
Google Advertising Locally?
Google Advertising Locally? Danny Sullivan pointed to a very interesting thread on the Webmaster World forum about Google advertising in the Kansas City market for...