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Powerset Seeks to Change
the Way Users Search and
Consume Web Content By Search News Desk 'Wikipedia is a great way
for us to showcase
Powerset's functionality
while giving people a
faster time to
satisfaction,' said
Barney Pell, co-founder
and CTO of Powerset, as
his company today
unveiled a publicly
available beta product
that according to Pell
rei... May. 12, 2008 05:15 AM Reads: 2,070 | Yahoo That Demanded $37
From Microsoft, Sinks to
$22.30 By Search News Desk Monday morning before the
markets open Bloomberg
reported 'Yahoo, that
spent three months
fighting a takeover by
Microsoft, tumbled $6.37
to $22.30. The software
maker said this weekend
it walked away when Yahoo
demanded $37 a share.
Microsoft had increased
its $4... May. 6, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 3,727 | Microsoft-Yahoo! -
Microsoft Fails To Make
Up Its Mind What To Do
Next By Search News Desk  Despite meeting
yesterday, the Microsoft
Board of Directors -
according to the Wall St.
Journal - has not decided
whether its $31 a share
offer for Yahoo!, which
has fallen in value to
$29 a share in line with
a fall in Microsoft's own
stock value, should be
hoist... May. 1, 2008 06:45 AM Reads: 1,865 | Yahoo! Bets on AMP! To
Counter Google and
Microsoft By Search News Desk  Just a month after Google
closed its $3.4BN
acquisition of ad sales
management firm
DoubleClick, Yahoo! has
taken the wraps off its
'Apex' project and said
that it will be called
AMP! - described as 'a
faster, easier, and more
automated and integrated
way to creat... Apr. 7, 2008 04:45 AM Reads: 3,309 | Microsoft's Weekend
Bombshell to Yahoo! BoD:
Off Come the Gloves! By Search News Desk  'It is unfortunate that
by choosing not to enter
into substantive
negotiations with us, you
have failed to give due
consideration to a
transaction that has
tremendous benefits for
Yahoo!'s shareholders and
employees,' thundered
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer
yesterday ... Apr. 6, 2008 04:00 AM Reads: 3,401 Replies: 4 | Is Microsoft
Re-evaluating Its $44.6BN
Yahoo! Offer? By Search News Desk The $31 a share offer for
Yahoo! that Microsoft
made on Jan. 31 was 62%
higher than Yahoo!'s
closing price the day
before the offer was
disclosed. So with the
Fed Chairman saying the
U.S. may be in a
recession after losses
tied to the collapse of
the subprime mort... Apr. 5, 2008 06:15 AM Reads: 2,707 Replies: 1 | New National Rental
Search Engine Launched in
Beta By Search News Desk 'While at Google, we
learned to develop
products that were simple
to use, free for users,
and clean of annoying
advertising,' says Dan
Daugherty, President and
CEO of rentBits, a new
nationwide search engine
for rentals. 'rentBits
has all of these
qualities and th... Mar. 12, 2008 08:15 AM Reads: 1,089 | Google Swallows
DoubleClick By Search News Desk  Google closed on its $3.1
billion acquisition of
DoubleClick this morning
a couple of hours after
the European Commission,
as expected, waved the
hackles-raising merger
through. US authorities
blessed the merger in
December. The EC said the
merger was 'unlikely' to ... Mar. 11, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 1,924 | Google-DoubleClick
Acquisition Approved; Job
Cuts To Come! By Search News Desk The final hurdle in the
completion of its deal to
buy Doubleclick has now
been overcome by Google:
European regulators have
today cleared its $3.1BN
bid. Eric Schmidt,
writing in the Official
Google Blog, admitted 'As
with most mergers, there
may be reductions in
... Mar. 11, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 2,256 | Google Takes Out After
SharePoint with Google
Sites! By Search News Desk  Google has blown a new
cloud over Redmond's way
to rain on Microsoft's
SharePoint collaboration
server - even if it has a
ways to go before being
recognized as a
thunderhead. The cloud is
called Google Sites. It's
a googlized version of
the JotSpot start-up's
wiki... Mar. 5, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 1,757 | Google Becomes the
Default Search Engine in
Opera Mini By Search News Desk 'Google and Opera have
established a valuable
relationship over the
years and we look forward
to continued
collaboration on mobile
products,' said Jon von
Tetzchner, CEO of Opera,
as Opera today made
Google the default search
engine in its mobile Web
browsers. 'We... Feb. 27, 2008 05:45 AM Reads: 2,745 | Google vs Microsoft:
Sergey Brin Implies
Microsoft OS Dominance Is
"Unnerving" By Search News Desk  'When you start to have
companies that control
the operating system,
control the browsers,
they really tie up the
top Web sites, and can be
used to manipulate stuff
in various ways. I think
that's unnerving.' That,
according to Google
Co-Founder Sergey Brin,
is wh... Feb. 22, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 3,322 | Gates: Yahoo! "Should
Take a Hard Look" at the
Microsoft Offer By Search News Desk  'We sent them a letter
and said we think that's
a fair offer,' Bill Gates
has been telling an
Associated Press
reporter, referring of
course to the February 1
proposal Microsoft made
to the Yahoo! board of
directors to acquire the
company for $44.6BN.
Gates made t... Feb. 19, 2008 07:00 AM Reads: 3,654 Replies: 1 | Is Yahoo! Too Large a
Company to Force into
Microsoft's Ways? By Search News Desk  Is Yahoo! too large a
company to force into
Microsoft's ways? That's
the question asked this
morning by The New York
Times, whose
correspondents John
Markoff and Matt Richtel
report a Silicon Valley
executive as declaring
that, when it comes to
overall technology ... Feb. 18, 2008 07:00 AM Reads: 3,843 | A Thousand Yahoo!s Gone By Search News Desk Whistling past the
graveyard, Yahoo! went
ahead Tuesday with its
thin, pre-Microsoft plans
of canning a thousand
non-core people worldwide
in an attempt to get the
firm growing in the right
direction. The number
actually turned out to be
more like 1,100 but far
fr... Feb. 17, 2008 04:45 PM Reads: 1,833 | Might It Now Be
"Yahoo!Space" Instead of
"Microhoo!"...? By Search News Desk On Monday Rupert Murdoch
was reported as assuring
the financial press that
News Corporation would
not be making a
counter-bid for Yahoo!
but yesterday came new
reports that discussions
are taking place about
integrating Yahoo! with
News Corp's Internet
assets. The... Feb. 14, 2008 08:45 AM Reads: 5,007 Replies: 1 | Yahoo! Edges Out Google
With Major Mobile Search
Win in Europe By Search News Desk T-Mobile has announced
that it is likely to make
Yahoo! oneSearch the
exclusive search engine
in all eleven of its
European markets. The
company is the
twenty-sixth mobile
carrier to sign a major
deal with Yahoo! and
displaces arch-rival
Google as T-Mobile's
preferred search engine. Feb. 13, 2008 07:00 AM Reads: 4,300 | Yahoo! Still Undecided By Search News Desk Tuesday, Yahoo CEO Jerry
Yang sent out his second
company-wide e-mail since
Microsoft made its
unsolicited $44.5 billion
bid for Yahoo, a message
that made it into an SEC
filing Wednesday. He said
the same thing he said
before: 'No decisions
have been made about
M... Feb. 8, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 4,447 | Yahoo Board Reportedly
Set To Meet & Decide By Search News Desk The Yahoo Board is
supposed to convene today
to thrash out whether or
not to accept Microsoft?s
$44.6 billion acquisition
offer, try to get
Microsoft to sweeten the
pot, or resist and hammer
out an outsourcing deal
with Google, according to
TechCrunch. Feb. 8, 2008 11:45 AM Reads: 1,526 | Dynamic Software's Portal
Promoter By Search News Desk Portal Promoter is a
completed search engine
submission, optimization
and search engine
marketing platform will
guarantee your success
online it is truly a
Dynamic SEO solution.
Portal Promoter web
interface combines all
the powerful search
engine optimization and... Feb. 1, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 2,042 | Yahoo! Hits the Wall;
1000 Jobs To Go! By Search News Desk  Weaker-than-expected ad
spending in the
financial, travel and
retail areas led to a 23%
decline in fourth-quarter
net income for Yahoo! to
$205.7 million, or 15
cents a share, from
$268.7 million, or 19
cents, a year earlier,
the company said
yesterday. It announc... Jan. 31, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 7,350 Replies: 2 | AJAX World 2008 East
Keynote: Can We Fix The
Web? By Search News Desk  The Web needs fixing. The
standards and
recommendations that
define the Web were last
revised in 1999. Since
then, the Web has grown
from a document retrieval
system into an
application delivery
system. We have made
significant progress
since then, due to the
cl... Jan. 25, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 3,214 | Yahoo Planning Big Job
Cuts By Search News Desk Yahoo is planning to lay
off hundreds of workers
in an effort to cut costs
and revive the company's
core business, according
to reports in several
media outlets Tuesday.
The Wall Street Journal,
New York Times reported
Tuesday that the company
is preparing to lay of... Jan. 22, 2008 08:45 PM Reads: 2,859 | Wikimedia Foundation to
Support Cape Town
Education Declaration By Search News Desk A coalition of educators,
foundations, and internet
pioneers today urged
governments and
publishers to make
publicly-funded
educational materials
available freely over the
internet. Jan. 22, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 1,919 | Omniture and Google
Analytics Over-Hyped By Search News Desk CMS Watch rejected the
snowball of hype
suggesting that Google
Analytics and Omniture
are the only remaining
solid choices for Web
Analytics. For mid-sized
and larger enterprises in
particular, and buyers in
the UK and Europe, there
are many established
vendors wh... Jan. 15, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 2,657 | Happy Birthday Wikipedia! By Search News Desk Wikipedia, the free
online encyclopedia
anyone can edit,
celebrates its seventh
birthday. Founded on
January 15, 2001,
Wikipedia has become of
the world's ten most
visited websites, and the
fastest growing, most
current, and largest
encyclopedia ever
created. Cu... Jan. 15, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 2,257 | Yahoo!'s Eric Miraglia
Introduces the YUI
Library By Search News Desk Yahoo! released the Yahoo
User Interface Library
(YUI) as a free,
open-source JavaScript
and CSS library eighteen
months ago along with a
commitment to the
developer community:
We'll share with you our
best frontend tools,
engage with you about how
they're built a... Jan. 15, 2008 07:15 AM Reads: 5,535 | Did Wikia Search Go Live
Far Too Early? By Search News Desk  The release yesterday of
an Alpha version of Jimmy
Wales's new Wikia Search
project underwhelmed
critics. Michael
Arrington of TechCrunch
called it a 'complete
letdown' and even
BusinessWeek.com noted
that 'Preliminary testing
of the site...produced
disappointing ... Jan. 8, 2008 04:45 AM Reads: 3,735 | Google Print Program
Expanded As Major
Universities Join In By Search News Desk  'We believe passionately
that such universal
access to the world's
printed treasures is
mission-critical for
today's great public
university,' said Mary
Sue Coleman, President of
the University of
Michigan, as Google
recently announced that
it is working with the ... Jan. 5, 2008 06:15 PM Reads: 7,560 | IBM Creates Free E-Mail
Search By Search News Desk IBM Research Labs has
pushed out free e-mail
search software called
OmniFind Personal Email
Search (IOPES) to find
information buried, it
says, in the 'vast
personal database that
e-mail has become.' Dec. 21, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 2,631 | Adobe and Yahoo! Launch
Beta Ads for Adobe PDF
Powered by Yahoo! By Search News Desk Adobe and Yahoo have
launched a beta Ads for
Adobe PDF Powered by
Yahoo! so online
publishers can stick
context-based ads in a
panel next to PDF content
for incremental revenue
from Yahoo. The context
ads are dynamically
matched to the content of
the documents. Ad... Dec. 17, 2007 06:30 PM Reads: 3,584 | Firefox Strikes Deal with
Chinese Search Engine
Giant Baidu By Search News Desk  Dr. Li Gong, co-chairman
of the Chinese subsidiary
of the Mozilla
Corporation, has
announced a deal with
Chinese search engine
Baidu to help propagate
the Firefox browser in
the Middle Kingdom. From
now on, China's domestic
users who install the
latest version of ... Dec. 9, 2007 07:45 PM Reads: 4,820 | Dell To Sell Google
Search Widgets By Search News Desk Dell is gonna sell
Google's search widgets,
the $30,000-to-start
Google Search Appliance
and the $2,000-to-start
Google Mini to American
companies, large and
small. It already sells
PCs with Google's desktop
search. And now it'll
have 2950 servers
compatible with ... Nov. 30, 2007 08:15 PM Reads: 3,956 Replies: 1 | Google's DNA Investment
Starts Up By Search News Desk Remember that $3.9
million that Google
dropped into co-founder
Sergey Brin's fiancée's
start-up right before
they were married? Well,
as of Monday said
start-up, 23andMe, is
peddling $999 DNA saliva
tests so people can find
out about their ancestry,
inherited trai... Nov. 29, 2007 08:45 AM Reads: 3,337 | Senators Press for Close
Scrutiny of GoogleClick
Deal By Search News Desk The Federal Trade
Commission has heard from
two US senators on the
Antitrust, Competition
Policy and Consumer
Rights subcommittee,
chairman Herb Kohl (D)
and ranking minority
member Orrin Hatch (R),
urging it to redouble its
scrutiny of the
Google-DoubleClick deal... Nov. 26, 2007 05:45 PM Reads: 4,346 | EC To Take Long Look at
GoogleClick By Search News Desk The European Commission
has decided not to stint
on its investigation of
the proposed
Google-DoubleClick merger
and, beginning Tuesday,
is treating it to a rare
in-depth review that will
take until April 2. The
move raises the hopes of
GoogleClick critics like
Mic... Nov. 21, 2007 10:15 AM Reads: 3,145 | Google Search Engine Sued
for Patent Infringement By Search News Desk It also talked to Jarg
co-founder Michael
Belanger. He told Reuters
that he's been sitting on
the claims for years for
lack of money but then
found a law firm -
Texas-based Vinson &
Elkins - willing to take
the case on contingency.
They're seeking damages
and roya... Nov. 21, 2007 09:30 AM Reads: 3,251 | Microsoft Creates Free
Search Server By Search News Desk Microsoft has pulled the
search widgetry out of
SharePoint Server 2007
and turned it into a
standalone Search Server
2008 Express that it will
make available as a free
download. It says
information workers waste
as much as 9.5 hours a
week on searches that
don't t... Nov. 9, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 4,382 Replies: 1 | EC Studying Google's
'Concessions' on
DoubleClick Acquisition By Search News Desk The European Commission
said Monday that it's
going to take another two
weeks and change to weigh
the widely criticized
Google-DoubleClick deal
and either rubberstamp it
or plow into a deeper,
months-long
investigation. It was
supposed to say something
by Friday ... Oct. 31, 2007 04:30 AM Reads: 3,485 | Google Version 2.0:
Googzilla - The
Calculating Predator By Search News Desk  Google is perhaps today's
best example of a company
built on calculative
thinking. Like a grand
master in chess, Google
uses strategic feints to
obtain its objective -
winning the game. Google
Version 2.0 shares the
search and ad
capabilities of Google
Version 1.... Oct. 23, 2007 11:30 AM Reads: 20,043 Replies: 1 |
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