Investors who were chugging Milk of Magnesia in advance of Google’s quarterly earnings today were given a nice surprise this afternoon when the company posted solid profit and sales gains for the quarter.
Yahoo’s paid search performance may be the fastest growing in the industry, but that doesn’t mean it’s the most effective. In fact, some companies would argue it’s not that effective at all. Companies like BigReds.com, which is suing Yahoo (YHOO) for more than $1 million for click fraud.
The collectibles retailer claims it paid Yahoo’s Search [...]
Boy, that was fast. Yahoo’s limited two-week test of Google’s AdSense for Search service has yielded wondrous results. So wondrous, in fact, that we’re only a week into it and “people familiar with the matter” are already telling The Wall Street Journal that the trial may well lead to a broader outsourcing deal between the two companies.
Now here’s something you don’t hear every day: Google is losing search market share to Yahoo in the states. According to a new quarterly study by SEO outfit SearchIgnite, spending by search advertisers on Google slipped to 70.4% (down from 74.5%), while spending on Yahoo grew to 24.2% in March from 19.6% at the end of the fourth quarter.
F-14 components are tough to find these days, now that the United States has retired its F-14 fleet. A tough break for the countries that still use the aircraft–countries like Iran. Lucky for them, finding those components is about as difficult as digging up a spare fender for your classic car. All that’s required is [...]
Here’s a clever way of streamlining the acquisition process: Become a platform-as-a-service provider and encourage developers to create Web applications using your proprietary database and your APIs (application programming interfaces).
That seems to be what Google (GOOG) has done with App Engine, a new service for developers who’d like to write and run their Web applications [...]
If the major search engines took the privacy of their users as seriously as they claim, they wouldn’t hold onto their personal search data for so long. That’s the opinion of Europe’s Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, which today recommended that the European Union require search engine providers to “delete or irreversibly anonymize data [...]
If the Motion Picture Association of America is so intent on shuttering BitTorrent trackers, perhaps it should set its sites on the really big offenders, like say … Google. It’s going to have to sooner or later, because some day there won’t be any smaller operations left for it to sue.
Microsoft (MSFT) may have no choice but to raise its “generous” $31-per-share hostile bid for Yahoo (YHOO) if it hopes to acquire the company without a messy proxy fight. This according to Citigroup (C) analyst Mark Mahaney, who in a research note to clients today said Microsoft is unlikely to walk away from the [...]
Back in 2005, word on the street had it that the Mozilla Foundation was making as much as $30 million annually from the Google search box in its open-source Firefox Web browser.
Turns out, that number probably wasn’t too far off. According to an independent auditor’s report, Mozilla made $66.8 million in revenue in 2006, quite [...]
Turns out Ask.com isn’t as intent on getting in touch with its feminine side as was previously thought.
Company spokesman Nicholas Graham tells Search Engine Watch that an Associated Press report that claimed the little engine that can’t was retooling itself as a search engine for married women primarily living in the South and the Midwest [...]
Looks like that big shake-up at Ask was so violent it muddled the brains of the company’s executive leadership.
This morning the company announced plans to retool itself as a search engine for housewives. Seems Ask.com believes its core demographic is married women living in the American South and Midwest looking for information about health, hobbies, [...]
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Best use of the Beeker “meee” ever.
While the technology behind the Telephone is new, the design is reassuringly old-fashioned, reminiscent of a phrenologist’s horn or ear-candle in form. We found the experience far more comfortable than the one we had with the Telegraph.
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
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