Yahoo’s Semel: ‘Google Has No Plan’
Yahoo’s Semel: ‘Google Has No Plan’ AP’s Mike Liedtke, covering Web 2.0 in San Francisco this week, wrote a piece in which he quoted Yahoo!...
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Google Mashup: Google Maps + Google Local
Google Mashup: Google Maps + Google Local Google has brought Local out of beta and combined it with the surprisingly popular Google Maps in a...
More ‘Upcoming’ for Yahoo! Local
More ‘Upcoming’ for Yahoo! Local Yahoo! announced that it had acquired upcoming.org (an events calendar that is user-driven). This is going to bolster Yahoo!’s already...
WhitePages.com Quietly Building a Juggernaut
WhitePages.com Quietly Building a Juggernaut WhitePages.com announced a deal with SuperPages.com to feature WhitePages.com’s residential listings on its site. WhitePages.com already has similar deals with...
Google San Francisco Wi-Fi : GoogleNet Closer to Reality
Google San Francisco Wi-Fi : GoogleNet Closer to Reality First the rumor, then the Wi-Fi VPN, now confirmation of a bid to provide free Wi-Fi...
Google Classifieds and Local Action
Google Classifieds and Local Action There are lots of things happening and announcements in the local space. However, I’m in the thick of conference schmoozing...
Snap Brings ‘CPA’ to Shopping Search
Snap Brings ‘CPA’ to Shopping Search Idealab’s Snap.com search engine has launched comparison shopping. The site was developed in partnership with Reference.com and Coupon Mountain....
Google Gets More Personal
Google Gets More Personal Google added a link to its “personalized home” in the upper right of its Google.com home page. If you click on...
Yahoo!’s New Mail and Loyalty
Yahoo!’s New Mail and Loyalty Yahoo! intitated a beta test with a limited number of users (sadly I’m not among that select group) and is...
Google, Blog Search and You
Google, Blog Search and You It would appear, as some have speculated, that Google is working on just about everything that its hundreds of engineers...
eBay & Skype : SkypeBay (Rumors Were True)
eBay & Skype : SkypeBay (Rumors Were True) The NY Times ran an article this morning confirms the eBay-Skype rumor. The deal is worth US$2.6...
Wikipedia Traffic Booms to New York Times Traffic Levels
Wikipedia Traffic Booms to New York Times Traffic Levels Hitwise, via Reuters, reports that Wikipedia’s traffic has grown 154 percent during the past year. It...
Google Talk Instant Messenger is Finally Here
Google Talk Instant Messenger is Finally Here After an almost unprecendented frenzy of speculation Google Talk is live. What is it? It’s an IM client...
Google Desktop Sidebar – Toolbar Meets Browser
Google Desktop Sidebar – Toolbar Meets Browser I got an opportunity to preview Google’s version 2 of its desktop client (GD2) late last week. It’s...
What Will Google Do with $4 Billion?
What Will Google Do with $4 Billion? Google took investors by surprise in announcing that it would sell additional shares expected to generate US$4 billion....
New SMARTpages Prepares for YellowPages.com Integration
New SMARTpages Prepares for YellowPages.com Integration SMARTpages has relaunched with a new look and feel, preparing for the eventual merger of the site with RealPages.com...
Ingenio Launches Pay Per Call API
Ingenio Launches Pay Per Call API As many of you may have read at ClickZ or MediaPost, Ingenio launched an API today that will enable...
Oodle Classifieds Search Engine Getting to Scale
Oodle Classifieds Search Engine Getting to Scale According to a press release this a.m. classifieds aggregator Oodle has now grown to 20 U.S. metro areas....
Amazon’s A9 Announces Maps
Amazon’s A9 Announces Maps I think this has been around since late June, but A9/Amazon is doing a formal announcement about A9 Maps. A combination...
Google Wireless ISP?
Google Wireless ISP? Google wi-fi broadband network? Om Malik hypothesizes. This would be potentially very appealing for both for consumers and advertisers (creates more reliable...
Yahoo’s Pay Per Call Advertising in the UK
Yahoo’s Pay Per Call Advertising in the UK How did I miss this one? According to Netimperative: The service is already available in Yahoo! Cars...
Alibaba and the 40% Interest
Alibaba and the 40% Interest Site back and listen to a spellbinding tale of exotic lands, for I Scheherazade will enthrall you with stories of...
Rupert Murdoch the New Barry Diller?
Rupert Murdoch the New Barry Diller? Paid Content listened to Rupert Murdoch’s earnings call (bless them) and had this to report about Murdoch’s local musings...
Online Maps Popularity To Expand Local Search?
Online Maps Popularity To Expand Local Search? Sometimes I’m even surprised by the level of interest and attention being given to maps of late. But...
Wireless Finally Passes Landlines in U.S.
There is so much news and there are so many announcements flying around these days I just have to duck much of the time. However,...
Mobile Local Search (Mo-Lo) Still Has Miles to Go
Mobile Local Search (Mo-Lo) Still Has Miles to Go There are lots of new mobile search initiatives going on. Most recently, AOL introduced a mobile...
Searching for Quality, Marchex Buys IndustryBrains
Searching for Quality, Marchex Buys IndustryBrains Seattle-based Marchex, which is the parent of TrafficLeader, the SEM/SEO firm behind several YP (and newspaper) simplified search marketing...
Microsoft Virtual Earth Launches
Microsoft Virtual Earth Launches MSN’s Answer to Google and Yahoo!’s dynamic Web-based mapping tools, Virtual Earth, went live this morning. Needless to say it works...
Yahoo! Vertical-Horizontal Integration
Yahoo! Vertical-Horizontal Integration Let’s put aside Yahoo!’s FUSE (Find, Use, Share, and Expand) strategy for the moment and look at what the company is doing...
Tracking Advertising Performance
Tracking Advertising Performance An article that has received a good deal of attention, from yesterday’s NY Times, is “How Effective Is This Ad, in Real...