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• Jim Safka To Replace Jim Lanzone As CEO Of Ask.com
  IAC, Ask.com's parent company, has announced that Jim Lanzone, the CEO of Ask.com, will be replaced immediately by Jim Safka as the new CEO of Ask.com. Safka was previously the CEO of Match.com, IAC's online dating company, from 2004 to 2007. He will also retain his job at as CEO...
• A Search Product CEO - Necessary To Win The Search Engine Game?
  With Jim Lanzone being replaced as Ask.com's CEO, I thought it time to do a piece that's been banging about in my head. Do successful search companies have to have CEOs or top execs who "grew up" from the search product side? The jury is probably still out, but it's...
• Google's User Experience Expert, Kevin Fox, Joins New Start-up Company
  Kevin Fox, Google's user experience designer responsible for helping design Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Reader 2.0, has announced he is leaving Google to join a "very small start-up." Today is his last day at Google, after being with Google for over four years. Kevin did not say the name...
• Nathan Stoll, Long Time Google News Product Manager, Leaves Google
  Nathan Stoll, a long time Googler and the Product Manager of the Google News service, announced at his personal blog that he has left Google. His announcement came about three weeks ago, but he is now officially not a Google employee. Nathan said: I've decided that it is time for...
• David Hirsch Leaving Google & Omid Kordestani Sells 6,000 Shares Of Stock
  NY Google Vet Hirsch Leaving For Startups from Silicon Alley Insider reports David Hirsch, the Director, B2B Vertical Markets Group at Google, is leaving at the end of this month to help invest and advise start ups. He told Silicon Alley Insider, he is planning on "helping incubate and accelerate...
• Google, AOL, Yahoo, & Digg Sued For Playing Online Solitaire
  Digg And Others Sued For Infringing Infamous Computer Solitaire Patent from Techdirt reports Google, Yahoo, AOL, and even Digg were all sued by Sheldon F. Goldberg for patent infringement of US Patent 6,264,560. The Electronic Frontier Foundation calls Sheldon a wanted person who has crimes against the public domain for...
• Googler's Bet Goobles On Predictive Markets During Their Free Lunch
  Google's Lunchtime Betting Game from the New York Times describes a game Google employees are encouraged to play during their lunch break. The game is betting fake money, Goobles, on predictive markets. A predictive market is an exchange that predicts events based on the amount of money wagered on a...
• SEMPO Releases In-House SEM Salary Survey Results
  In-house search marketers are doing quite well financially, according to salary survey results released by SEMPO today. Respondents reported a wide range of salaries, from virtually minimum wage to those exceeding several hundred thousand dollars per year, with the average falling in the $60-70,000 range. And not surprisingly, experience was...
• Mahalo Adds More Social Features
  Mahalo has just launched several new features that entwine the human-powered search engine even further into social networking and online community building. The Mahalo Follow toolbar now enables you to post links to Delicious, Ma.gnolia, Mahalo Social, and Twitter with the click of one button. The sidebar now displays quick...
• Google Docs Releases New Presentation Features
  The Google Docs blog has announced new features for the Google Docs suite of tools. You can now create subfolders to more easily organize your documents and can rename documents and folders from the toolbar (previously, you could only do this from the File menu). The toolbar has also been...
• Googlebot In Aisle Three: How Google Plans To Index The World?
  Robots reading cereal boxes in the supermarket? Googlebot at the art museum? Street signs and building addresses snatched from Street View images for local search, image search, and product search? Three new patent applications published at the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office this week explore the intricacies of reading text...
• Zillow Comes Out Of Beta, Improves Zestimates
  Real estate may be slumping in the real world, but online, the opposite is true. Zillow and Trulia in particular have been driving lots of change and innovation in the online real estate segment. Yesterday Trulia released a free publisher platform. And last night Zillow made several announcements. Among them,...
• Google Maps Gaining On Market Leader Mapquest
  Mapquest arguably "owns" the mapping brand online. It has been the dominant mapping site for years by a wide margin. But that dominance may now be slipping under pressure from Google. Hitwise reports that "traffic to Mapquest has remained flat year on year and is down 20% in the past...
• Google Updates Sky Images & Features In Google Earth
  The Google LatLong Blog announced they have updated Sky in Google Earth with new content, features and API integrations. To see Google Sky, click "Switch to Sky" from the "view" drop-down menu in Google Earth, or click the Sky button on the Google Earth toolbar. Here is a list of...
• Google Takes NASA To Watch Meteor Shower
  NASA to watch meteor shower via Google plane from the San Jose Business Journal reports NASA scientists used a plane owned by Google's founders to watch a meteor shower last night. The Google Jet left Mineta San Jose International Airport at 4:30pm last night and flew over the Arctic and...
• Spice Up Your Google AdWords Ads With ASCI Art
  The BannerBlog wrote that they wanted their German car rental client, Sixt, to stand out in the sponsored listings for a search on "Mietwagen" (car rental) in Google. They came up with the idea to display ASCI art of cars in the ad spot. I tried to duplicate the results...