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Microsoft and Yahoo: Are They or Aren’t They?

Yesterday, TechCrunch reported that Microsoft and Yahoo were talking again. I was immediately skeptical. Recently, All Things Digital had called out TechCrunch…

By Nathania Johnson · 25 Jun 2008

Industry

Yahoo’s Urban Mapping License to Aid Geographic Targeting

Yahoo! has licensed Urban Mapping’s Urbanware: Neighborhoods, which contains data for 40,000 neighborhood boundaries covering more than 2,000 U.S. cities and towns.…

By Nathania Johnson · 24 Jun 2008

Analytics

Google Dominates Mobile Search Market Share in Q1 2008

Continuing its dominance in search, Google saw 61% of mobile searches in the first quarter of 2008, according to data released by…

By Nathania Johnson · 16 Jun 2008

Analytics

Wikipedia Traffic Grows 8,000% in 5 Years Due to Search Referrals

Nielsen Online has released data showing that Wikipedia’s 8,000% growth in the past 5 years is attributed to search. Really? Is that…

By Nathania Johnson · 15 May 2008

Industry

Icahn Trumps Yahoo Board: “You’re Fired!”

Yahoo may need to fight off Carl Icahn Syndrome by Proxy today. Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSP) is a type of factitious…

By Kevin Heisler · 15 May 2008

Analytics

ComScore Places Google Sites Ahead of Yahoo Sites for First Time

While Google has dominated the search market, it’s Yahoo that’s been the leader as a destination site (think email, photos, etc.), according…

By Nathania Johnson · 15 May 2008

Analytics

Student Searches: The Top 15 Searches for the K-12 Set

What are your kids searching for during the school day? netTrekker d.i. has released data about the Top 15 In-School searches for…

By Nathania Johnson · 14 May 2008

Industry

Google’s Superiority Complex

In the end, is Google's search advertising system better than Yahoo's, or are they just monetizing better? It sounds like a little…

By Kevin Ryan · 14 May 2008

Industry

SearchDay: Don’t Hire a Butcher to do a Baker’s Job

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Don't Hire a Butcher to do a Baker's Job; Small Business Owners Need Twitter and…

By Kevin Newcomb · 13 May 2008

Industry

Powerset Launches Piggybackipedia: Wikipedia Search Engine

Who won Survivor last night? Powerset doesn’t know. Okay – maybe that’s an unfair question for Powerset since the aptly-named Parvati Shallow…

By Kevin Heisler · 12 May 2008