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Yahoo! Snags Sales Exec from Microsoft
Per Boomtown, Seth Dallaire has joined Yahoo! as vice president of mid-market sales, a new position. Dallaire will be responsible for mid-market search and display ad sales. Dallaire…
Steve Ballmer Says Microsoft Search Acquisitions Unlikely
Steve Ballmer, after addressing Britain’s CBI business lobby organization, said that search acquisitions were unlikely to be part of the strategy to…
Microsoft Execs Get Pay Cuts; No One Feels Sorry for Them
Microsoft has filed a document with the SEC showing that top executives at the software giant have received pay cuts. Basically, some…
New Consumer Protection PSAs Appear in Bing Search Ads
Microsoft has teamed up with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and Western Union to serve consumer…
Microsoft Windows 7 House Party: Public Relations Disaster or Video Marketing Triumph?
If you create something so bad that it goes viral, is it a public relations disaster or a video marketing triumph? That’s…
Bing Continues to Boom, At Google’s Expense
The August 2009 search rankings by comScore are out and the news continues to be good for Bing. Microsoft sites grabbed an…
Top Search Providers for August 2009
Microsoft's Bing experiences substantial growth, exceeds 10 percent search market share.
Regulators Request More Info about Microsoft-Yahoo! Search Deal
Antitrust regulators in Washington have requested more information from Microsoft and Yahoo! regarding their recently announced search deal. Announced in July, the…
Did Bartz Cash Out Of Yahoo? Not Really
There has been much made of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz’s sale of company stock over the past 9 months, but if you…
Ex-Yahoo! and Author of ‘Peanut Butter Manifesto’ Brad Garlinghouse Heads to AOL
In 2006, Brad Garlinghouse made waves at Yahoo! by releasing the “Peanut Butter Manifesto,” which outlined a bunch of organizational and administrative…
Global Search Market Share, July 2009 vs. July 2008
Google continued to outpace its rivals, while Latin America exhibited the most searches per person.
Query Bing from Your Cocoa Apps: Microsoft Releases Bing iPhone and Mac SDK
If you develop applications for the iPhone or for Mac, you now have the ability to query Bing in your application. Microsoft…
Rumor: Bing and Wolfram Alpha Strike a Search Deal
If a new blog post at TechCrunch is true (and that’s generally about a 50/50 chance), then Bing has struck yet another…
Blind Search Test: You Might Be Surprised at Which Results You Prefer
Last night, I began playing around on BlindSearch, which returns results from Google, Yahoo! and Bing, but doesn’t tell you which one…
Hadoop Founder Leaves Yahoo! for Cloudera
Doug Cutting is leaving his job working on Hadoop at Yahoo! to work on Hadoop at Cloudera, a Silicon Valley Startup. Cutting…
Publicis to Buy Razorfish from Microsoft
Microsoft unloaded a potential conflict of interest today when it agreed to sell Razorfish to Publicis for $530 million. Microsoft had picked…
SES San Jose 2009 to Feature Search Engine Foosball Smackdown Rematch
If you attended SES San Jose last year, you may have seen the Search Engine Foosball Smackdown. It was a heated event…
Google Launches Billboard Campaign to Promote Apps, Steal Microsoft Customers
Google has purchased billboard advertising along highways in 4 major metropolitan areas. The billboards are part of the “Going Google” campaign, which…
Could the Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Create a Global Domino Effect?
Now that Yahoo has teamed up with Microsoft against Google, it leaves the door open for Google's other competitors worldwide to do…
SearchDay | Search Industry Reacts to Yahoo!-Microsoft Deal
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Search Industry Reacts to Yahoo!-Microsoft Deal; Re-Thinking Link Building Commentary; Charity Party Will Be A…
Yahoo! Doesn’t Know What Will Happen with BOSS; YUI, YQL and Pipes Unaffected by Deal
One of the biggest questions regarding the new Microsoft-Yahoo! deal is what will happen to Yahoo!’s search offerings in its Developer Network.…
Microsoft and comScore Partner Up to Develop Online Branding Measurement Tool
Microsoft and comScore are teaming up to create a new digital ad planning tool. Dubbed the Reach and Frequency Planner, the tool…
It’s Official: Microsoft and Yahoo! Finally Strike Search Deal
Don’t adjust your screen folks, it’s finally official. Microsoft and Yahoo! have finally struck a search deal. No, Microsoft will not be…
Time Warner Buys Back Google’s 5% Stake in AOL
When the Time Warner board voted in late May to spin off AOL, buying back Google’s 5% stake in the company would…
Microsoft Online Services Division Sees Loss from Stronger Dollar, Weaker Online Ads
On a day when the stock market rose above 9,000 and everyone but the short sellers were in good spirits, Microsoft provided…
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