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Sohu Revenues Up 12% in Q4 2009
Sohu reported its Q4 2009 earnings this morning and the news is good for the Chinese Internet portal. (Sohu is basically China’s Yahoo!) Revenues came in at $135.8…
Yahoo! Earnings: Revenues Down but Profits Up
Yahoo! announced its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2009 today. Revenues came in at $1.7 billion, which was down 4% compared…
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…
hakia Launches NoBrandSearch.com, a Blind Test of Search Engines
hakia’s new site, NoBrandSearch.com, is an attempt at offering up a blind “taste test” of search results. The idea is that users…
Retail Boosts Search Spend in Efficient Frontier’s Q4 2009 Report
Tomorrow, Efficient Frontier releases their quarterly search report and we’ve got a sneak peek at the numbers. Let’s dive in: Search Spend…
Google Gains at Everyone Else’s Expense in Nielsen’s December 2009 Rankings
Google and AOL are up while Yahoo!, Bing and Ask.com are down from November in Nielsen’s December 2009 search rankings. But let’s…
Google Friend Connect Now Available for Drupal and Joomla
If you’ve wanted to add some social functionality to your website but aren’t a hardcore developer, then things just got a bit…
Yahoo! to Shutdown Shopping API in Wake of New Partnership with PriceGrabber
Yahoo! has announced a new partnership with PriceGrabber that will change things up considerably over on Yahoo! Shopping. The partnership primarily involves…
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…
Carol Bartz’s First Year Self-Evaluation: B-Minus
In an interview with Bloomberg, Carol Bartz graded her first year as Yahoo!’s CEO. She gave herself a B minus. That’s probably…
Yahoo! Partners with Former NBC Exec’s Venture for Original Content
Sites like Hulu and the increasing adoption of media players such as the Apple TV are showing consumer desire (and willingness) to…
Yahoo! Expands Availability of TV Widgets, Including Development Kit
Yahoo! is expanding their foray into television by creating a wider availability of their TV Widget Engine. They’ve announced new partnerships with…
A Few More Resolutions for Your Search Team
Want greater search marketing success this year? Try looking at search engine marketing as a whole, rather than two independent efforts, and…
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…
Bing, Google, and Ask.com Up in Nielsen’s November 2009 Rankings
Nielsen Online has released their search rankings for November 2009. Things remain awesome for Google and Ask.com saw a hop. But Bing…
Yahoo Integrates Local Results into Results for Broad Keywords
Yahoo! has a new update that serves up some personalization into search results. Let’s say you’re searching for pizza. You’ll now get…
Social network search terms top Hitwise list for 4th straight year
Last month, “unfriend” was named Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year for 2009. This afternoon, our friends at Experian Hitwise analyzed the…
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…
Yahoo! Encourages Charity Through Acts of Kindness Campaign
Yahoo! has launched a new charitable effort called “You In?” The idea is to encourage random acts of kindness that are then…
Yahoo! Adds TV Series and Popular Movie Actors to Video Search
Hot on the heels of launching a music video search last month, Yahoo! is expanding their foray into entertainment video search by…
Yahoo! Launches Consumer Tool to Provide Niche-Specific Ad Controls
The tool is called “Ad Interest Manager” and it lets you opt-in and out of ads based on interests and preferences. Here’s…
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.…
In 2010, Y!ou Can Access Facebook on Yahoo!
Yahoo! really does want you to make their homepage the center of your web-browsing universe. Next year, they’re going to make that…
Google Takes on Ask.com in Deals, Yahoo! in Times Square
Google has launched a new Deals page, almost two months after Ask.com unveiled their new Deals site. Google’s Deals page features the…
Microsoft-News Corp. Talks: A Marriage Made in Hell?
Two weeks ago, I commented on Rupert Murdoch’s threat that News Corp. was thinking of blocking Google from being able to search…
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