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Search Neutrality?

December 28, 2009 by Andy Beal with 199 views

By Frank Reed As expected it looks like this week may be a bit light in the news department. That’s fine. Everyone needs a break from time to time. So as I am looking around this morning I come across an op-ed piece in the New York Times that is written by Adam Raff, a co-founder of Foundem, an Internet technology company. From what I... [read more]

Yahoo should invest in products, not advertising

September 26, 2009 by Chris Dixon with 137 views

For 10 years, Yahoo was my default home page. Now I can barely stand using the site.  I still use it for Finance and Flickr, but that’s it. The new home page design has windows popping up everywhere and mind numbing celebrity gossip up top. Now we learn Yahoo is going to spend $100 million on an advertising campaign. The slogan is... [read more]

The Search it is a Changin'

September 15, 2009 by John Jantsch with 198 views

This content from: Duct Tape Marketing Currently, it seems like there is a lot going on in the world of search that is pretty exciting for the typical user. Today I would like to point out a few changes I’ve noticed and what they might mean for your SEM and SEO efforts. Visual Search – images seem to be getting more and more important... [read more]

Double Down, But Only On The Right Hand

July 31, 2009 by Fred Wilson with 126 views

Last weekend, we watched Casino Royale on the beach in Slovenia, just up the Adriatic coast from Montenegro, where the story takes place. I love the scenes at the poker table, particularly the one where Bond goes all in and loses all his money.And that scene was in my mind when I was reading my friend Jason Calacanis' wonderful post,... [read more]

MSFT-YHOO Deal. It's Complicated.

July 30, 2009 by Albert Wenger with 160 views

The top link on techmeme right now is yesterday’s post by Jason Calacanis titled “Yahoo committed seppukku today.” It is worth reading because it powerfully (and hilariously) lays out the position that handing over search to Microsoft is a huge mistake for Yahoo. It is a position I am very familiar with, because I made much of the same... [read more]

Search Engine Marketing Benchmarks: Latest Research from Marketing Sherpa

July 23, 2009 by Tom Pick with 220 views

MarketingSherpa just released its new search marketing benchmark report ($447) and companion executive summary (free PDF). Some of the key findings and observations from the report.Despite the economic downturn, paid clicks are increasing."U.S. paid click volume (is) up 18% from January 2007 to March 2009... In a sign of industry health... [read more]

Bing’s Got Some Zing

July 9, 2009 by Andy Beal with 92 views

By Frank Reed Just last week the earliest of the early reports claimed that Bing had made some impact in the search engine arms race. Those numbers were met with a fair amount of skepticism due to the timing etc. Now Mashable reports that Compete.com has released US traffic stats that shows Bing is making some progress in more than just... [read more]

Expanding Web Search Part One: Focused Search-Based Applications

July 7, 2009 by Bill Ives with 117 views

This is the first of a two part series on how the boundaries of search are being pushed beyond the familiar Google-style broad Web search. Tomorrow I will discuss real time search. I recently spoke with Eric Rogge of Exalead about how search is playing an expanded role for enterprises inside and outside the firewall. He mentioned that... [read more]

The Yahoos At Yahoo

June 30, 2009 by Jonathan Salem Ba... with 161 views

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.Word has it that Yahoo is going to debut new branding in the fall, courtesy of a newly-hired CMO who has a newly hired coterie of her favorite branding gurus. There's nothing surprising about this news: one of the first things new top marketers usually do... [read more]

Why Semanti Smart Search is Going to Rock Your Social Web Experience

June 23, 2009 by Danny Brown with 170 views

While Bing has been making the news recently on the search engine front, new web browser add-on Semanti looks set to take search to another level again. Released to the public today, Semanti doesn’t seek to replace Google, Yahoo, or Bing. Instead, it aims to offer a truly semantic experience for anyone using these search engines to... [read more]

Has Microsoft’s Bing gained marketshare from Google?

June 18, 2009 by Tushar Mathur with 112 views

Microsoft Corp’s Bing search engine won more market share from rivals last week, according to new industry data, but still trails Google Inc and Yahoo Inc considerably. Challenging market leader Google — which in turn is looking to break into Microsoft’s core software market — is a long-term project, said Microsoft chief executive Steve... [read more]

Why We Need Diversity in Search (Rooting for Bing)

June 15, 2009 by Albert Wenger with 154 views

Fred posted on the weekend about giving Bing a chance. I am doing the same this week having set Bing as the default search engine in Firefox. My main reason is that I firmly believe in the need for search diversity. A search mono-culture would be bad for the Internet for several reasons: Too much power. Search is so central to the web... [read more]

Learning from Google's Ability to Innovate

May 14, 2009 by Albert Wenger with 121 views

Google announced and released a number of innovations to their core search product this week, including search options and support for microformats/RDFa. What I think is most interesting about this is not so much the specifics of what they have done, but that they continue to innovate in core search. This contrasts with several other... [read more]

Geocities

April 24, 2009 by Fred Wilson with 82 views

Yesterday, TechCrunch reported the news that Yahoo! is planning to shut down Geocities. That is sad news on many levels. Geocities was the web's first community and it was my first "mega deal" when it was sold to Yahoo! in 1999 for $3.5bn (including the value of the options Yahoo! assumed). I learned a lot from that investment and I... [read more]

Leaders and Decision Making

April 20, 2009 by Dan McCarthy with 306 views

Here's a guest post by Sydney Finkelstein, a Professor Strategy and Leadership at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, and the co-author of Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How to Keep it from Happening to You (Harvard Business School Press, 2009). Follow Sydney Finkelstein’s Blog – The Syd Blog.... [read more]

Yahoo’s Tony Adam Gives Top Tricks for SEO and Social Media

April 19, 2009 by Mario Vellandi with 279 views

[Video Link for Email/Other Subscribers - 40min] As an expert, Tony discusses the role Search Engine Optimization plays in both internet marketing and social media marketing. Listen to how Yahoo approaches SEO and how your brand can maximize its online presence in social media with search engine marketing techniques to get more site... [read more]

Is Your Business Listed in Local Search Results?

March 23, 2009 by Debra Murphy with 354 views

If not, you are missing a huge opportunity! Most small business owners market their products and services to a specific geographic market and they most likely use a mix of local advertising, direct marketing, coupons and word of mouth marketing. Depending on your type of business, you may also use door hangers, flyers and site... [read more]

Drawing a Line in the Brand

March 17, 2009 by Gavin Heaton with 140 views

As the line between our personal and professional lives continues to blur, we are increasingly seeing both brands and individuals struggle with responsibility, ownership and commitment. This is being exacerbated by the accelerated uptake of social networking tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter – where our personal and... [read more]

Hate is stronger than greed!

June 15, 2008 by AlexanderMuse with 118 views

Back in April I wrote a post titled, “How to prevent your investors from selling!” where I suggested that Yahoo! was willing to commit suicide before selling to Microsoft.  Mike Arrington concluded the same thing when he suggested that Yahoo was playing the crazy card in their negotiations, but he explained, “I never thought these... [read more]

Yahoosoft and Small Business

February 4, 2008 by Steve King with 128 views

Microsoft's bid for Yahoo will most likely succeed.  Using what used to be called a "bear hug", MSFT's bid puts Yahoo's board in a position where they almost have to sell the company.  While there will be much talk over the next few days about "white knight" offers from News Corp and others, this is mostly posturing by Yahoo... [read more]

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