My GeoCities page is long gone too. This column was supposed to appear a couple of days ago. I was late getting it completed, which is pretty ironic given the subject is attention and distraction. I know you don't get paid to read, and doing so is...
Is it just the ill fate of companies like GeoCities, MySpace, and many others before it who move away from being proactive and become reactive and docile when they get bought big conglomerates? Social media in the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia...
Remember back in the olden days when GeoCities was all the rage and the web was covered in animated GIFs? I bet you didn't think there was more than one advanced approach to web analytics tagging, did you?
As announced a couple of months ago, Geocities will cease to exist today. GeoCities was the biggest online community prior to the dotcom bubble burst. LinkedIn and Facebook Groups and many other social media have taken the lead of GeoCities and...
Products like Yahoo 360 and GeoCities that they are shutting down are mere "space debris" - nice way to describe products her employees spent major effort to build and develop despite their lack of success.
A decade ago, folks thought a GeoCities page or a blog at blogspot.com was just fine. After Bubble 1.0 burst, Jason Calacanis renamed his Silicon Alley Reporter the VentureReporter and sold it to Dow Jones – now Rupert's DJ.
Also we revisited some of the early free web hosting sites, and set up destinations at Freeservers, Tripod, Angelfire and Geocities. As some SEW readers know, our editors challenged us to implement a best practices marketing campaign for...
Report: Indian gov blocks Blogspot, Typepad, Geocities blogs, Boing Boing A special report from the Search Engine Strategies Latino conference, July 10-11, 2006, Miami, Florida. With such a significant market, Latin America has finally landed its...
Report: Indian gov blocks Blogspot, Typepad, Geocities blogs, Boing Boing Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we've spotted but not blogged separately:
We learn from VNUnet.com that there are phishing scams on Google Pages and we also learn from Slashdot that Yahoo's Geocities has a similar issue. A email goes out telling people they can win a "$500 cash prize, and that the money can be paid...
Google has long said it has no intention of becoming a portal, but so far, it's hard not to see the acquisition of Blogger as adding a portal feature in the same way that Yahoo did when it bought GeoCities.
GeoCities). When I saw the news confirmed, I exclaimed out loud to myself, "Oh, give me a break. A break from what, freakishly talking to myself? No, a break from Google going in yet another direction when there is so much stuff they haven't...
I've read that doubleclick is Web 1.0 as AdSense is Web 2.0, and Geocities is Web 1.0 as MySpace is Web 2.0. New Google "Bigdaddy" Infrastructure Live Search Engine Watch Forums Google's new 'Bigdaddy' web search infrastructure is now live at...
Yahoo did when it bought GeoCities. In Missions and Visions, John Battelle talks with Jeff Weiner, who I've introduced at conferences in the past as Yahoo's search czar, about Yahoo Search's vision and mission statements.
II by encouraging a Japanese attack.www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/pearl.html - 65k - Cached - Similar pages I've read a number of popular press accounts over the past week trying to assess how well the new MSN Search measures up against the other...
Yahoo still has the GeoCities personal home pages service (valued at $3.6 billion when acquired in 1999 -- in contrast, Google likely paid only a few million for Blogger). MSN is now offering blogging space through its new MSN Spaces service...
Focus on a site versus pages: IE's Geocities will feature in its database only once, rather than the extensive network of millions of free pages / Web sites that are found within Google. ITWorld.com is reporting that Australia-based Ansearch will...
If anyone else on that domain gets blocked by a My Yahoo user, your site will get taken out for that user as well, because you're within of the www.geocities.com domain. For example, say you use Yahoo's GeoCities service and stick with the www...
Yahoo invests $5 million in free web page provider GeoCities and announces cross-promotion agreement. Yahoo announces it is to purchase GeoCities. Articles from August 2004 and before are shown in the Search History Articles section below.
The urge to merge on the Net US News Yahoo invests in GeoCities. NOTE: ACQUISITION-RELATED ITEMS FROM SEPTEMBER 2004 ONWARD ARE LISTED IN THE REVENUES: ACQUISITIONS SECTION OF SEARCH TOPICS IN SEARCH ENGINE WATCH.
