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- Ask.com: The
$100 Million Brand
IAC to spend $100 mln on Ask brand in 2007: Diller from the Washington Post reports that Ask.com is going spend $100 million on branding Ask.com this year. IAC chairman Barry Diller, whose company owns Ask.com, said We have a number of ways to tell people about Ask, its tools,... - Forty-Eight
Hours With Ask Mobile
On Friday I received a briefing on Ask Mobile (with GPS) and a demo phone with the application pre-installed. I now have three mobile devices that I'm carrying: a traditional cellphone, a Windows Mobile device and the Ask Mobile demo phone. It's quite a challenge to physically manage all these... - Breaking news: AOL Acquires Third Screen Media, PaidContent.org
- Yahoo Fills CFO
Position With Blake Jorgensen
Yahoo has appointed Blake Jorgensen as its new chief financial officer. Jorgensen was the co-founder of Thomas Weisel Partners, a company he helped start in 1998. He takes over from Susan Decker, who has been jointly serving as CFO and as head of the new Advertiser & Publisher Group, formed... - Class Action
Suit Filed Against Yahoo Over "Defective" Search Ad Platform
Lerach Coughlin, a law firm with a reputation for going after companies who have allegedly engaged in financial shenanigans, has filed a class action lawsuit against Yahoo, charging "Yahoo and certain of its officers and directors with violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934." Essentially, the suit claims that... - Yahoo Expands
Unlimited Email Offer Globally
Today, Yahoo has begun rolling out unlimited email capacity worldwide. On March 28th, we reported they were offering unlimited email storage in the US. Now this is going worldwide. Not everyone will have unlimited capacity today but over the next coming months, they will, a Yahoo spokesperson told me.... - Blinkx And
ChaCha Strike Video Search Deal
ChaCha, which combines traditional algorithmic search with human-assisted search, has announced a video distribution deal with Blinkx. ChaCha's new video search will be entirely powered by Blinkx and potentially incorporated into ChaCha's live search sessions. ChaCha uses chat functionality to enable a staff of paid, expert guides to interact with... - Introducing the Google Developer Podcast, Google Code Blog
- Search Result Snippets and the Perception of Search Quality, SEO By The Sea
- Additional Googlers soon to be contributing to this community, Google Webmaster Help @ Google Groups
- Digg is Censoring Content by Burying Stories Internally, Pronet Advertising
- Digg is Sending Lowest Referral Traffic in 1.5 Years, SEOmoz
- Things Sure Are Quiet At MySpace News, TechCrunch
- Pipl - A People
Search Engine
Pipl is a people search engine that tries to be a little different. Rather than just go off and hunt for email addresses, this tries to search through the deep/invisible/hidden web to return content that other search engines are going to miss. The interface is simple - type in first... - Farecast Emerges From Beta, Mashable
- Plan Your Public Transit Route with HopStop, TechCrunch
- Google Launches Audio Ads to the Masses: Step by Step Screen Captures, Search Engine Roundtable
- Gonzales proposes new crime: "Attempted" copyright infringement, News.com
- Talk at Google bumpy for candidate, San Jose Mercury News
