Google's purchase of the startup follows a similar March deal by Yahoo, when it acquired news aggregator Summly for $30 million. Google has acquired news summarization start-up Wavii for more than $30 million.
The news aggregator has also asked its readers to pitch ideas about what features it could embrace in the development of the new tool in order to "pull this off in such a small window". Digg hopes to identify and rebuild the best of Google Reader's...
Since Google News is the largest aggregator of news content on the Web, and its news results play a prominent role in many organic search results pages, these factors will be of particular interest to SEO professionals attempting to improve their...
Prior to Blekko, Skrenta monetized page views at about $3 to $4 CPMs on Topix, a news aggregator which he sold to the Tribune. Startup search engine Blekko has recently begun to test search ads on its site, according to MediaPost.
This is Twitter's second acquisition of the month, having previously acquired news aggregator Summify. Twitter has acquired security startup Dasient, which describes itself as an anti-malware vendor for large enterprises in the financial services...
Twitter has agreed to acquire news aggregator startup Summify to boost its news management capabilities. The Summify platform allows users to collect and summarize news items into a single visual feed.
This time, the acquisition of DailyDeal (a Groupon-styled local offer website) and the Dealmap (a local deal aggregator) seem to be the key Google moves. Additionally, Chevron, D’Agostino, Faber News Now, Gristedes Supermarkets, and Pinkberry are...
In teaming with Groupon, LivingSocial, Nordstrom, Target and others, Bing’s goal is to be an aggregator rather than be another Groupon or LivingSocial, or even Google Offers. Among Conduit’s clients: Major League Baseball, Time Warner Cable...
LinkedIn Launches Industry News Aggregator - Marketing Pilgrim Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of March 6 to 12, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web.
Google Ventures Backs Local Deals Aggregator Signpost -paidContent Here's a roundup of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Oct.to 22, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web.
Facebook Places will likely take the role of platform and audience aggregator. In addition to the mobile facing feature, corresponding Place pages will exhibit details of the location, news feed, pictures, and a list of people who have checked in...
Delivering on its intention of removing its content from the open web, News International's The Sun Online last week blocked PR media monitoring service Meltwater and UK news aggregator NewsNow from indexing its articles, using a Robots.txt file...
Facebook's FriendFeed Acquisition Could Have Implications for Search (Yes, Search) Posted by Nathania Johnson Aug 11, 2009 Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, a social media aggregator. It's So On: Facebook Rolls Out Live Feed Search to All Users...
FriendFeed Updates API with Real-time, Oauth, File Attachments and Sharing Options Posted by Nathania Johnson Jul 21, 2009 Social media aggregator FriendFeed has updated its API with a bunch of features that are relevant to current online social...
Yahoo is a great portal aggregator - pity they cut down Yahoo Groups only to have them resurface. For that I start at the homepage and am occasionally sidetracked by the prominent news box with amusing stories - seems I rarely go there to grab...
If you're not familiar, FriendFeed is a social aggregator. News from the Search Engine Watch Blog Posted by Nathania Johnson Apr 7, 2009 Newspapers have been struggling not just due to the economy but also due to the availability of accessing the...
If you're not familiar, FriendFeed is a social aggregator that enables users to track activity on various social networks and social bookmarking sites from one place. SearchDay | Google and the Obama Administration [TEASE” Today's search engine...
Built on Netvibes, an RSS aggregator (aka newsreader), the site comes standards with pre-selected feeds from popular social media and technology sites. News from the Search Engine Watch Blog Today's Top Story:
Walmart Sends DMCA Notice to SearchAllDeals, TechCrunch Posted by Nathania Johnson Nov 14, 2008 Walmart has sent a DMCA notice to TechCrunch and SearchAllDeals.com, a shopping search engine and deals aggregator.
And a useful tool/resource such as a search aggregator is bound to make life easier when it comes to finding your stuff. News from the Search Engine Watch Blog Instead of waiting only for good news, filter it out instead.
