Well, it has finally happened. After coming to a basic agreement in July and finalizing the terms in December of last year, Yahoo! and Microsoft have received regualtory approval from the U.S. Government and the EU. The result is a search partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo! in their combined battle for online advertising with Google. […]
Twitter Teams up with Google and Bing
Twitter recently partnered up with both Google and Bing to allow them to search and index the full stream of tweets. Both companies are taking a different approach to how to showcase the data. Here is a look at each one. Bing Twitter Page and Search Bing actually created an entire page at bing.com/twitter which […]
Microsoft begins revealing New Decision Engine – Bing
I suspect Microsoft has long felt the burr under their saddle when talking about Google. Looks like their competitive nature has them back in the headlines. They are unveiling the newest updates to their Search Engine technology called Bing. The biggest question is, can it be a competitor to Google? We do recognize that Search […]
State of the Search Engines Winter 2009
A lot has happened in the strange and wonderful world of Search Engines over the past year so lets recap: January 31 2008 – Microsoft offers up it’s services to run Yahoo! in an unsolicited take over bid. Yahoo! thinks it over. March 17 2008 – Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt says the deal is bad […]
Yahoos New CEO is Carol Bartz
Yahoo has officially announce Carol Bartz as Jerry Yang’s replacement at Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), a leading global brand and one of the world’s most trafficked Internet destinations, announced today that Carol Bartz, a veteran technology executive who was most recently Executive Chairman of Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK), has been named Chief Executive Officer and a […]
Live Search Now Lets You Find the Perfect Image
Live Search announced it’s new image search function that allows you the ability to find similar images to ones that you like. In their example on their blog they show a search result of Muhammad Ali that returns a variety of results Hovering over an image you are given an option to ‘show similar images.’ […]
Yang Out As Yahoo! CEO. Where’s Guy Kawasaki?
Cue the fat lady – Jerry Yang is stepping down as Yahoo!’s CEO. The cofounder of the company is stepping in down in what could be called an off year. As regular readers of this blog can attest Yahoo! has had more downs than ups this year and the resigning of Yang is no big […]
Google to Yahoo! – “It’s Been Nice but I Don’t Want to Fight For You”
Google is breaking up their advertising marriage in a sign Yahoo! sees as Google’s not wanting to fight Department of Justice and their decision to block their agreement. It looks like their June – November marriage has come to a halt. In a letter to Yahoo! advertisers, Hilary Schneider, Executive VP, spoke of their disappointment […]
Hakia – Semantic Search On Its Way
TechCrunch has a great overview of the newest release of semantic search engine Hakia. Jason McElweenie For more information please contact the Search Engine Marketing Team at Schipul – sem@schipul.com
Ask.com – New Look – New Results!
Ask.com, playing on their name, want to give you answers not just results. With that Ask.com rolls out it’s 11th major update and claims to be 30% faster than version 10. So what’s new in version 11? Well back in the days of Ask Jeeves the search results were hand crafted, now all of the […]