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Microsoft Online Division Revenues Improve, But Remain at a Loss

Microsoft has reported its Q2 2009 earnings (Q4 for many other companies) and the news is mixed for their online services division. Revenues improved over the previous quarter,…

By Nathania Johnson · 29 Jan 2010

Analytics

Google Reigns Supreme in Q4 2009 Adgooroo and SearchIgnite Reports

It’s no secret that Google had a strong fourth quarter to end 2009. Their earnings last week showed it and we’ve already…

By Nathania Johnson · 26 Jan 2010

Industry

comScore says global search market grew 46 percent in 2009‏

comScore has just released a study on growth in the global search market in 2009. The study revealed that the U.S. remains…

By Greg Jarboe · 22 Jan 2010

SEO

I’ll take mine heavy on the paid and hold the organic please.

I was moderating a keynote discussion session at SES Berlin in November of last year. I talked to Lars Lehne, Country Director…

By Mike Grehan · 21 Jan 2010

Analytics

comScore Shows Bing Growing in December 2009 Search Rankings

When Hitwise and Nielsen both released their December 2009 rankings and it showed Bing as dropping, I had a hunch that comScore…

By Nathania Johnson · 19 Jan 2010

Industry

Analysts Say Apple Should Get in the Search Game (We’ve Been Saying This for a Year)

For about a year now, I’ve been saying that Apple should get in the search game. Now business analysts are beginning to…

By Nathania Johnson · 15 Jan 2010

Industry

Microsoft’s Ballmer: We’re Staying in China and Addressing IE Security Issues

After meeting with President Obama at the White House today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer appeared on CNBC. When asked about China, Ballmer…

By Nathania Johnson · 14 Jan 2010

SEO

Google/AOL Search Deal Ending, Big Interest In New Partnership

The AOL/Google search partnership agreement is ending this year and according to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong the company will be looking for…

By Frank Watson · 09 Jan 2010

SEO

Google, Bing Among Crunchie Winners

The Third Annual Crunchie Awards have been announced by Tech Crunch and Google and Bing are among the recipients. The awards are…

By Frank Watson · 09 Jan 2010

Industry

Bing to Be Default Search Engine on HP Devices

Last night at the 2010 CES in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took to the stage to deliver his keynote address.…

By Nathania Johnson · 07 Jan 2010

Industry

Dictionary.com Names Shravan Goli as President

Shravan Goli will be heading up Dictionary.com after spending time at a couple of Ask.com competitors. Goli held several management-level roles at…

By Nathania Johnson · 18 Dec 2009

SEO

Day one in a life without Google

Benjamin Ellis, a leading consultant for digital businesses and tech startups in the UK seems to be in the mood for being…

By Jonathan Allen · 15 Dec 2009

Industry

AOL’s Independence Brings Focus on Content and Advertising

Tim Armstrong and AOL employees rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange this morning, to signal the beginning of trading…

By Nathania Johnson · 10 Dec 2009

Local

Bing to Expand Streetside Imaging by Partnering with Navteq

Last week, Bing unveiled Streetside imaging but you may have noticed it’s not quite extensive. Hold your horses. These things take time.…

By Nathania Johnson · 07 Dec 2009

Industry

Microsoft and Yahoo! Make It Official, Now Time for Some Good Ol’ Fashioned Politicking

Microsoft and Yahoo! have finalized the search agreement initially announced last July. Originally, they had planned to finalize things by late October.…

By Nathania Johnson · 04 Dec 2009

Industry

Bing Explains Yesterday’s Blackout

Yesterday, Bing went down for about 30 minutes between 6:30pm and 7pm PST. Microsoft’s Senior Vice President of Online Services, Satya Nadella,…

By Nathania Johnson · 04 Dec 2009

Industry

AdCenter Updates Pop-Up Help Boxes

Microsoft’s adCenter have updated their pop-up help boxes to make them more, um, helpful. The boxes now offer a “More” link that…

By Nathania Johnson · 25 Nov 2009

Industry

Shaking My Head at Steve Ballmer…

Last week, I was shaking my head at Mark Cuban. He suggested that Microsoft pay online publishers to de-index their sites from…

By Nathania Johnson · 23 Nov 2009

Industry

AOL Spinoff to Occur on December 9, 2009

Last spring, Time Warner announced that it would spin off AOL as an independent company. The announcement was made shortly after hiring…

By Nathania Johnson · 17 Nov 2009

Industry

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…

By Frank Watson · 30 Oct 2009

Industry

Barry Diller Willing to Sell Ask.com, But No Deal in the Works

Yesterday, on the IAC earnings conference call, CEO Barry Diller said that he’d be open to selling Ask.com. The media took off…

By Nathania Johnson · 28 Oct 2009

Industry

Google: We’re Launching Similar Image Search, Too

Just hours after GazoPa announced its similar image public beta test to the public, Google announced that it was releasing its similar…

By Nathania Johnson · 28 Oct 2009

Industry

7 Google Updates: Custom Search, AdWords API, Maps, Search Appliance and More

Google had another busy week pushing out updates. That’s really no surprise considering Apple released product refreshes and Microsoft released Windows 7.…

By Nathania Johnson · 23 Oct 2009

Analytics

Not So Fast: Efficient Frontier’s Search Ad Data Paints a Different Picture than SearchIgnite’s

Yesterday, we reported on Search Ignite’s Q3 2009 search ad spend data. The report offered much optimism for the future since they…

By Nathania Johnson · 13 Oct 2009

Industry

Search Ad Spend Up 10% in Q3 2009, Per SearchIgnite Report

SearchIgnite has released their quarterly search advertising spend report. The data shows that U.S. search spend flat year-over-year but up 10% quarter-over-quarter.…

By Nathania Johnson · 12 Oct 2009

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