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Microsoft & Alibaba Seeking Partners for Yahoo Bid
A bidding war for a potential buy of Yahoo is in the preliminary stages. While Microsoft, Alibaba, and several purchasing groups ready…
Mary Blair Google Doodle Honors Artist’s 100th Birthday
A new Google Doodle features tribute art honoring Disney Legend Mary Robinson Blair. Her artwork is widely recognized for bold coloring and…
How to Build a Great SEM Team
Putting together a championship SEM team requires understanding the positions you need to fill; identifying the skills and experience to fill those…
DuckDuckGo Raises Money From Union Square Ventures
Startup search engine DuckDuckGo raised its first round of funding led by Union Square Ventures, company founder Gabriel Weinberg announced. Terms of…
Yahoo-Bing Integration Complete Everywhere but Korea
Yahoo has finished transitioning to a Bing back-end in every country except Korea (where Bing will take over by the end of…
Microsoft CEO: We’ve Got Siri Beat, Bing vs Google = Draw
How do you really feel, Steve? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was as candid as ever at the Web 2.0 Summit as he…
Search Engines Can Save the Podcast: Lessons From ‘The Office’
Once an usher of liberated 21st century communications, the podcast is now a big disappointment. How can search technology help create a…
Yahoo Q3 2011 Earnings: Search Revenues Fall 13%
Search revenue was $374 million, a 13 percent decrease from the previous quarter. Search revenue was bolstered by the fact that Microsoft…
How Google’s Human Search Quality Raters Assign a URL Rating
A leaked URL Rater guidebook from Google’s Search Quality Rating Program offers important insight into what human raters are looking for when…
Google Shutting Down Buzz and 4 Other Services
Google announced that several products will be shut down by early 2012. This includes Google Buzz, Code Search, the University Research Program…