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Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

Google GMail Mobile and New Features

Google GMail Mobile and New Features One day there may be an official phobia related to fear of email in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual...

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  • Dec 16, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

Craigslist the King of Classifieds

Craigslist the King of Classifieds While Craig Newmark would undoubtedly bristle at that characterization, the network of sites that bears his name is the undisputed...

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  • Nov 29, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

Windows Live Classifieds Coming Soon

Windows Live Classifieds Coming Soon Everyone has been speculating about whether Google Base is Google’s entry into online classifieds. I have argued that it’s about...

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  • Nov 23, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

Google’s Froogle Local Merchant Search

Google’s Froogle Local Merchant Search I got a release of sorts from Google this a.m. explaining in more detail the offline/local product data that Froogle...

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  • Nov 22, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

Search Engines Gain in Daily Usage

Search Engines Gain in Daily Usage Search continues to show big gains among US users. comScore data comparing September 2004 to September 2005 showed that...

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  • Nov 21, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

Google Base All About Local

Google Base All About Local There are a bunch of people out there who believe The Kelsey Group overhypes local. And that’s certainly the lens...

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  • Nov 17, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

TrueLocal Local Search Engine Goes Live

TrueLocal Local Search Engine Goes Live TrueLocal is a consumer-facing local search engine that has been operating “under the radar” (except for appearances at SES)...

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  • Nov 15, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

Enter the Yahoo Shoposphere

Enter the Yahoo Shoposphere Building on its “social search” template, Yahoo! has revamped shopping and added in a range of new personalization and community features....

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  • Nov 15, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

Amazon Patents Consumer Reviews? Absurd!

Amazon Patents Consumer Reviews? Absurd! I was never a patent attorney, but I think that the USPTO is going too far in granting certain “business...

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  • Nov 12, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

Google Maps & Local on Phones

Google Maps & Local on Phones Preparing for a day when there is meaningful usage of wireless devices as local search tools, Google has launched...

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  • Nov 8, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

Yahoo & Google : Man vs. Machine

Yahoo & Google : Man vs. Machine Here’s an interesting article from Sunday’s NY Times about Yahoo! and its long term search strategy. I was...

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  • Nov 7, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

Local Matters Acquires AreaGuides

Local Matters Acquires AreaGuides Local content aggregator and affiliate network AreaGuides.net has been acquired by Denver-based Local Matters. This is the first consumer-facing property in...

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  • Nov 1, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

Google the Agency, Google the Network

Google the Agency, Google the Network Here’s a fairly comprehensive piece from the NY Times’ Saul Hansell, reviewing Google’s model, history and speculating about its...

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  • Oct 31, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

LookSmart Goes Deep Vertical

LookSmart Goes Deep Vertical In a very interesting bid to revive its fortunes and its consumer brand, LookSmart has launched 160 vertical sites on everything...

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  • Oct 28, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

AT&T-Yahoo! DSL?

AT&T-Yahoo! DSL? Here’s a piece in the NYTimes that says SBC will take the venerable name AT&T once the acquisition is approved. One response: Will...

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  • Oct 27, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

Internet Advertising On Local Sites Increases

Internet Advertising On Local Sites Increases Deutsche Bank conducted a survey of 87 media executives in conjunction with MediaPost about their clients’ third-quarter media spending....

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  • Oct 23, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

Craigslist Blocking Oodle : Destination vs.Aggregation

Craigslist Blocking Oodle : Destination vs.Aggregation Craigslist has been the proverbial poster child for friendliness, openness and online cooperation. However, as John Battelle reported, Craigslist...

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  • Oct 21, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

Yahoo Adds Blogs to News Search

Yahoo Adds Blogs to News Search Here’s Yahoo!’s new and improved news search with a dash of blog search. (This is probably not a full-blown...

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  • Oct 12, 2005
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion

Topix ‘Contextual News’ Links

Topix ‘Contextual News’ Links Newspaper-owned news aggregation site Topix, which has a number of third-party, local news distribution deals with the likes of AOL and...

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  • Oct 8, 2005