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Eric Schmidt: Google Will Give Higher Rankings to Content Tied to Verified Profiles
Google's former CEO Eric Schmidt suggests in his upcoming book that search engines will give priority and higher rank to content created by those with verified accounts. "The…
Philosophy and Search: The Big Three Founders and the Philosophers
Does the thinking of Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Yahoo's Jerry Yang and David Filo, and Microsoft's Bill Gates mirror some…
Microsoft-Yahoo Fight Heats Up
Microsoft’s unsolicited bid to acquire Yahoo is heading down an unpleasant path. This week, Microsoft is reportedly undertaking a proxy fight, sending…
Whither the Yellow Pages Industry?
At the Kelsey Group's DDC Conference last week, speakers and attendees pondered the future of the Yellow Pages industry, and where it…
Bill Slawski Uncovers Possible Barter System Patent At Microsoft
Bill Slawski, of SEO By the Sea, has posted more patent applications. This time Microsoft has applied for a bunch, including Bill…
Microsoft to acquire Social Media Sites?
Dave Naylor speculated late last week that Digg will be bought by Microsoft. This is based on a statement by Kevin Rose…
Ego Bidding Gone Wild
What happens when the ego gets in the way of smart bidding and positive ROI? Tony Wright talks about the danger of…
Gates Plans to Spend Remaining Time Focusing on Search
Microsoft chairman and founder Bill Gates said yesterday that he plans on spending his remaining 15 to 18 months of active duty…
Google and Yahoo! aren’t keynoting at CES this year
Bambi Francisco of MarketWatch will be roaming around the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week — along with an estimated 70,000 daily…
Bill Gates To Work Part Time at Microsoft in 2008
Tons and tons of news coverage on Bill Gates’s announcement he has given up his “chief software architect” role now and will…
Search Headlines & Links: May 31, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Daily SearchCast, May 31, 2006: Travelin’ Green With Google, Microsoft Waiting To Advertise , Language Specific SEO, Pay-Per-Call & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Travelin’ green with advice from The Earthday Network and Google, Bill Gates talking about Microsoft’s 5-year battle plan…
Microsoft Patiently Waiting To Advertise
Marketwatch, reporting from the D4 conference, quotes Bill Gates discussing Google as “very much the leader” contrary to Microsoft having made previous…
Google’s Eric Schmidt Interviewed on CNBC
ResourceShelf points to a CNBC interview of Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt. The two-part interview goes over the “plan B” for Google’s growth,…
Google Hires Orion Search Engine Creator; Gets Extraction Algorithm
Back in September, SEW Forums moderator Edel “Orion” Garcia posted a thread about a new search technology under development. It was coincidentally…
The Thrill & Danger Of Measuring Relevancy Through Ego Searches
Last week, you may recall that Ask got a rave review from the Wall Street Journal. Robert Scoble saw that, then did…
Gates Outdoes Brin & Page on Single Largest Payday
The New York Post reports that Bill Gates brought in $298.8 million last week by selling off 11 million shares of Microsoft…
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo Provide Statements to Congressional Caucus Regarding China Related Issues
Danny blogged yesterday that Google and Microsoft were not going to send representatives to appear at a US Congressional Human Rights Caucus…
Microsoft Mix 06 Looks At Mashups, Web 2.0
Microsoft’s Mix 06 event in March doesn’t have much on search now other than letting Amazon pitch its Alexa Web Search Platform,…
Google CEO Chats with the BBC About Online Info, Click Fraud (Not a Problem So Far), 20% Time, and the Competition
Google Blogoscoped points to BBC News article about Google Video that includes an “exclusive” video interview with Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO. The…
Gates Dings Google, Yet Fails To Impress On Search Himself
Via Good Morning Silicon Valley, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates let loose on Google in an interview with the Associated Press before his…
Bill Gates and Friends Talk and Demo New Products at CES
The 2006 Winter Consumer Electronics Show got underway last night with a keynote address by Bill Gates and if you were hoping…
Bill Gates Keynote Address at Consumer Electronic Show Will be Webcast Tonight; CES Podcasts via Yahoo
As many of you know, the Consumer Electronics Show begins today in Las Vegas with keynote presentations from Bill Gates, Terry Semel,…
Sharing The Search Wealth At A9, MSN & The Drawbacks
In my post-Christmas mailbox was a message from A9 reminding me of its A9 Instant Rewards program that effectively pays me a…
Gates Keynoting CES – And So Are Semel & Page
Last year I talked about the idea of consumer search and how search engines that traditionally offered web search were making the…
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