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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…
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.…
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.…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…