AT&T Buying BellSouth for $65 Billion
AT&T Buying BellSouth for $65 Billion According to a story in yesterday’s New York Times AT&T (formerly SBC) is near a deal to acquire BellSouth:...
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Ingenio’s Ether – Pay Per Professional Advice
Ingenio’s Ether – Pay Per Professional Advice A couple of sites are reporting on the beta launch of Ingenio’s Ether. It’s essentially a billing and...
Local Search Performance and Google Click to Call
Local Search Performance and Google Click to Call I moderated two panels on local at SES yesterday morning. Both were very interesting and took slightly...
Edgeio Takes Craigslist to the Next Level
Edgeio Takes Craigslist to the Next Level As Mike Boland wrote earlier this week, Edgeio has launched. This is a very interesting site because one...
Windows Live Local and Ask Upgrade Maps
Windows Live Local and Ask Upgrade Maps Along with the launch of the new Ask.com yesterday, the company introduced an upgraded mapping product that now...
MySpace & Helio Launching Mobile Network
MySpace & Helio Launching Mobile Network MySpace, the supersite for teens, has announced the launch of its own branded “mobile virtual network operator” network. The...
Traffic ‘Smackdown’: Yellowbook vs. InsiderPages
Traffic ‘Smackdown’: Yellowbook vs. InsiderPages In an admittedly self-serving email, InsiderPages’ VP Andrew Shotland pointed me to Alexa traffic data that show basically that YellowBook.com...
MSN Windows ‘Expo’ Replaces ‘Fremont’
MSN Windows ‘Expo’ Replaces ‘Fremont’ A little while ago I got a peek at the successor to Microsoft’s classifieds marketplace “Fremont.” The new site is...
Eurekster and Yahoo MyWeb 2.0.2
Eurekster and Yahoo MyWeb 2.0.2 I met with Steven Marder this morning, CEO of Eurekster. These guys were way ahead of the “social search” curve...
Google Desktop Upgrades with Social Sharing
Google Desktop Upgrades with Social Sharing Google launched an upgrade to desktop search/Sidebar. There were a number of feature enhancements (remote PC/file access, “undocking” of...
GMail Integrates Google Talk’s Chat
GMail Integrates Google Talk’s Chat Google is integrating its Google Talk/IM functionality into GMail. It doesn’t replace Google Talk (because there’s no VoIP yet). But...
Google & Skype Investing in FON WiFi
Google & Skype Investing in FON WiFi What is FON? No it’s not a Spanish dessert – that’s flan – although it is based in...
Google Click-to-Call (Pay Per Call?) & VOIP
Google Click-to-Call (Pay Per Call?) & VOIP Speaking of “click-to-call,” here’s a Mercury News piece on Google’s “click-to-call” initiative. According to the article, the company...
SimplyHired Job Search Engine Is Simply Fascinating
SimplyHired Job Search Engine Is Simply Fascinating A couple of days ago I met with SimplyHired. Beyond some interesting things that they were telling me...
Google Adds Personalization to Toolbar Upgrade
Google Adds Personalization to Toolbar Upgrade Google went live tonight with version 4 of its toolbar for IE (Firefox version coming soon I’m told). You...
Microsoft’s Live Labs
Microsoft’s Live Labs It appears that everyone is the world of search is opening new labs. Google has been announcing new research labs here and...
Google: Improved Local Imagery
Google: Improved Local Imagery Seeking to match some of the very impressive high-resolution “bird’s-eye” photography now available through Windows Live Local, Google has improved the...
Yahoo! Search Not ‘Giving Up’
Yahoo! Search Not ‘Giving Up’ Here’s the Yahoo! Search response to the “controversy” created yesterday by the Bloomberg article in which Yahoo! CFO Susan Decker...
Yahoo! Content to Be No. 2 in Search?
Yahoo! Content to Be No. 2 in Search? This is a very interesting piece from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer quoting Yahoo!’s CFO Susan Decker on the...
Search Engine Marketers Paying Too Much?
Search Engine Marketers Paying Too Much? This article made the rounds on Friday (ClickZ). The thrust of this Kevin Newcomb piece is that the paid...
Government Pursuing Google Search Data
Government Pursuing Google Search Data Here’s an important post from John Battelle about the Bush administration’s efforts to get at users’ online behavior and search...
Google Ready to Fight Broadband Fees
Google Ready to Fight Broadband Fees There was public discussion by the telcos and perhaps other broadband providers about trying to charge fees/taxes/tolls to the...
Apple & Yahoo Stock Bubble? Or Inflated Expectations
Apple & Yahoo Stock Bubble? Or Inflated Expectations Inflated Expectations, Inevitable Disappointment. So Apple missed too (net income doubles but falls short of estimates) …...
Google AdRadio
Google AdRadio Google makes another sort of local push.. into radio, buying dMarc Broadcasting of Newport Beach, California. There’s a reported downpayment of just over...
AOL Buys Truveo Video Search Engine
AOL Buys Truveo Video Search Engine Google and Yahoo! have been grabbing the video headlines recently. But in what appears to be something of a...
Yahoo! Central & Google Pack’s Updater
Yahoo! Central & Google Pack’s Updater As Charlene Li points out about Google Pack in her recent post—and this similarly struck me when when I...
Broadband Providers Taxing VOIP & Content Delivery
Broadband Providers Taxing VOIP & Content Delivery This WSJ article (sub. req’d) details plans (and negotiations) to charge fees of content providers for priority high-speed...
Google Maps in Gmail
Google Maps in Gmail I have both Yahoo! email and Gmail accounts and a Comcast personal email account—all of which I use for slightly different...
NSA Gives New Meaning to ‘Spyware’
NSA Gives New Meaning to ‘Spyware’ Politics don’t usually appear on this blog because of a variety of differing views at The Kelsey Group (and...
Google Base’s New Interface
Google Base’s New Interface I’m feeling very rusty after being off for a week—a veritable enternity in “Internet time.” But I wanted to comment briefly...