This afternoon, Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft Platforms & Services Division, issued an email to Microsoft employees (that was released via its PR firm). The letter has a tone of confidence that assumes a deal with Yahoo will ultimately take place. It reiterates what Microsoft believes to be the benefits of that deal and looks […]
Over the past ten to twelve years, various SEM practitioners have brought up the need for industry standards. I started asking the question in 1998, and others have brought it up since, but the industry seems to have a laissez faire attitude.
Albeit, we’ve seen some standardization steps taken by the search engines themselves. Google, Yahoo!, […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
Google-Funded Lunar X Prize Aims To Put Private Rover On MoonThe latest X Prize is the Google-funded Lunar X Prize, which was announced in September, 2007. It seeks to award $20 million to the first […]
The latest X Prize is the Google-funded Lunar X Prize, which was announced in September, 2007. It seeks to award $20 million to the first scientific team that can land a privately funded robot on the moon and meet a number of other criteria (explore terrain and relay results back to Earth). The runner up […]
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
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Previewing the teams involved in the Google-sponsored Lunar X prize, Google co-founder Sergey Brin told the Associated Press following the event that he found the prospect of Microsoft owning Yahoo “unnerving.” Meanwhile, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, according to Charles Cooper at CNET, is “girding for the certainty of a coming proxy war with Microsoft.”
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AllThingD’s Kara Swisher does a wide ranging video interview with former Ask CEO Jim Lanzone. Among other things Swisher and Lanzone discuss “the future of search” at only the very highest level however.
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Have you taken the time to sit down and put your blog’s goals on
paper? Do you know why you are blogging and what you want to
accomplish from your efforts? Excellent. But don’t fool yourself into
thinking that all you need is a plan, that’s just your starting point.
Let’s look at some of the reasons why a […]
Microsoft runs prize campaign for Live Search users from NewMediaAge reports that Microsoft is yet running another search and win promotion. This time the contest is based in the UK, in partnership with Virgin. It is named the Big Snap Search.
Users can go to bigsnapsearch.com and search, at the top of the search […]
EU: Search Engines Under EU Rules from the Associated Press reports that the European data privacy regulators said search engines outside the EU also have to comply with EU’s privacy regulations.
The regulations require the search engines to require their users to consent to their data being collected plus give the user the right […]