Week in Review
Searchviews: Week in Review
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Written By Drupad Sil | May 9, 2008 | Share This
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Each Friday, we bring you a roundup of the last week’s stories on Searchviews and beyond. Happy weekend reading!
On Searchviews:
- Microsoft eventually gives up its bid for Yahoo, ending a 3-month song and dance
- We respond to a comment made by the former CMO of Coca-Cola on CPG companies and online advertising
- Yahoo rolls out Glue Pages in India, which has a neat interface but is similar to another engine’s search result
- MySpace positions itself as the central social network by enabling data sharing
Elsewhere:
- Contrary to investor belief, Microsoft’s moves suggest no reversal of its Yahoo decision is forthcoming
- Facebook announces a profile redesign, its biggest project of the year
- A consortium pulls together a $3.2 billion deal with Sprint and Clearwire’s WiMax businesses
- Jeff Taylor, founder of Monster.com, starts Tributes.com, a social networking site for the dead
- Speculation begins that business social network LinkedIn may be getting bought
Searchviews: Week in Review
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Written By Drupad Sil | May 2, 2008 | Share This
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Each Friday, we bring you a roundup of the last week’s stories on Searchviews and beyond. Happy weekend reading!
On Searchviews:
- Our take on consumer package good companies and their definition of branding
- E-mail meets social networking in startup Zenbe
- MediaPost article by our own Peter Hershberg on understanding your customer’s search vocabulary
- An analysis of Henry Blodget’s SAI Live 25
- We catch Google displaying “ad scores” on searches
- A new paper on real image recognition in search
- Peter weights in again, this time on Google’s suite of services and what it means for the future of search
Elsewhere:
- Grand Theft Auto IV launches to a thunderous response while mocking some well-known companies in the way only Rockstar can
- Google debuts TV Ads, a way of encouraging AdWords advertisers to move to TV
- AT&T announces plans to subsidize the new iPhone by $200 this summer, fueling speculation as to the reason why
- The Web hits its 15th anniversary
- Microsoft and Yahoo go back and forth on the takeover deal, with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer weighing his options after Yahoo’s board raised it ask price to $37 a share, a 26% premium
Searchviews: Week in Review
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Written By Drupad Sil | April 25, 2008 | Share This
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Each Friday, we bring you a roundup of the last week’s stories on Searchviews and beyond. Happy weekend reading!
On Searchviews:
- MySpace Applications go live
- Google sued again, this time for ad fraud
- Mobile geo-locator app Fireball combines the best of three worlds
- Skype continues to roll, offering unlimited calling to 34 countries
- Forrester Research values Enterprise Web 2.0 at $4.6 billion in 2013
Elsewhere
- Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Yahoo! report earnings
- SearchMonkey goes into private beta
- Twitter gets shaken up by some high level departures
- Microsoft unveils its web vision, Live Mesh
- NBC closes a deal with MySpace to provide political news content
Searchviews: Week in Review
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Written By Drupad Sil | April 18, 2008 | Share This
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Each Friday, we bring you a roundup of the last week’s stories on Searchviews and beyond. Happy weekend reading!
On Searchviews:
- Google’s new crawling and its implications for SEO.
- A discussion on the future of search and its intersection with social media.
- Reprise Media’s Managing Partner Peter Hershberg weighs in on the metrics debate with an article on MediaPost.
- Microsoft launches Live Search News, an aggregator that competes with Google News.
- Reprise Media’s Managing Partner Joshua Stylman shares his viewpoint on search marketing’s unique resistance to a recession.
- Salesforce.com integrates its interface with Google apps.
Elsewhere:
- Initially incognito, Microsoft is revealed as the Farecast buyer.
- Google announces its 1Q 2008 results.
- VoIP company GrandCentral goes temporarily dead on Sunday.
- Blockbuster sued for participating in Facebook’s Beacon program.
- A special find: Sergey at Stanford
Searchviews: Week in Review
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Written By Sepideh Saremi | April 11, 2008 | Share This
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Each Friday, we bring you a roundup of the last week’s stories on Searchviews and beyond. Happy weekend reading!
On Searchviews:
- Flickr adds
video“long photos.”
- We interview Nasser Manesh, co-founder and CTO of Frucall.com, about mobile development.
- Google launches the Google App Engine for application developers.
- Europe’s thinking about cracking down on search engines for keeping data longer than Europe prefers.
Elsewhere:
- MicroHoo: a guide to the most recent happenings.
- Mark Glaser on social press releases.
- The ad industry re-thinks sketchy targeting.
- Another week, another boring lady-focused site.
- Is Modern Feed the intersection of TV and online video?
- Not-yet-public video site Seesmic acquires Twitter client Twhirl.
Searchviews: Week in Review
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Written By Sepideh Saremi | April 4, 2008 | Share This
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Each Friday, we bring you a roundup of the last week’s search and social media news. Happy weekend reading!
On Searchviews:
- Google wisely decides to spin off part of Performics, a search marketing firm it acquired as part of DoubleClick.
- Barry Diller wil get what he wants, breaking up IAC into five pieces.
- Yahoo expands its mobile ambitions.
- MySpace Music buddies up to the big boys - how will this change the music biz?
- Shameless plug: Searchviews gets a spot on the new aggregator site, Alltop.
And Elsewhere:
- Craigslist has a blog now! (via TechCrunch)
- Not a big surprise: Your friends’ opinions matter more than that of big bloggers.
- Yahoo launches “Shine” - a site targeting women.
- Google rules 69% of online advertising.
- Google News myths dispelled.
- Google is bleeding execs.
- Facebook is translating into 22 languages.
Searchviews: Week in Review
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Written By Sepideh Saremi | March 28, 2008 | Share This
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Each Friday, we review the past week’s search and social media on Searchviews and elsewhere on the web. This week, we revived our 5-question interviews, and we saw some interesting developments in YouTube and in the ad network world.
On Searchviews:
- 5 Questions with Tony Pierce, LA Times Blog Editor: Tony Pierce shares insights on how newspapers should approach blogging.
- ESPN Dumps Ad Network: The sports publishing giant says goodbye to its ad network, perhaps signaling a trend in advertising.
- YouTube Adds More Analytics: YouTube Insight will show where in the world a video’s viewers are, and what happens to a video’s views as it gets more popular (the second one seems a little obvious…).
- Paid Search Spend Will Be Up 113% by 2012: A forecast predicts dramatic jumps in new media spend by advertisers over the next four years.
Elsewhere:
- Yahoo joins OpenSocial, the coalition to take out Facebook.
- Facebook just got fatter pockets.
- Paid click growth was flat at Google in February.
- Microsoft is anticipated to be upping its bid for Yahoo, to $34/share.
- Google has big plans for WiFi.
Searchviews: Week in Review
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Written By Sepideh Saremi | March 21, 2008 | Share This
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Each Friday, we summarize the week in tech news, on Searchviews and elsewhere. Here are the big stories of this week. Happy weekend reading!
On Searchviews:
- EBay continues making changes, this time with job cuts.
- Google’s search share continued to rise in February 2008, but search volume dropped.
- YouTube (and Google News) was blocked in China due to coverage of protests in Tibet.
- Yahoo released its financial plan that it presented to investors in December 2007.
Elsewhere:
- China is now shutting down other video sites.
- Google didn’t win in the 700 mHz auction, but Search Engine Land explains how it still got some of what it wanted as a result.
- Forrester expands its Groundswell site, adding some cool, free tools.
- LinkedIn has added company profiles, which will give business websites with similar databases of companies some competition.
- Google universal search blurs the lines between search engine and destination site.
- Facebook adds new privacy features, with IM coming soon.
- Google presents its myriad free services to nonprofits in a special portal.
- The big G also opens its maps for user edits.
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Written By Sepideh Saremi | March 14, 2008 | Share This
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This week in tech, social media, and search engine news…
On Searchviews:
- AOL buys 3rd-place social network Bebo.
- The EU signs off on the Google-DoubleClick deal, but the big G might need to spin off the SEO it got as part of the deal.
- Traditional web companies are lagging in web tracking.
- YouTube opens up APIs and becomes more like a white-label video service.
In other news:
- Facebook will launch an IM service soon.
- Apps go live on MySpace - not everyone who develops will get in, though.
- Hulu publicly launches, but the Silicon Alley Insider’s projected revenue numbers for the video site don’t look great.
- You may have noticed more spam in your Gmail inbox, but it’s not because of bots.
- Google just launched an ad manager that has important implications for publishers and ad networks, and Microsoft wants to do the same with an acquisition soon.
- Google launches Google Sky.
- Yahoo takes steps toward the semantic web.
- Barry Diller goes to court to defend his plan to break up IAC.
- In-flight broadband is coming!
- Will visual search this cool change your search habits?
Searchviews: Week in Review
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Written By Sepideh Saremi | March 7, 2008 | Share This
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This week, one of the most interesting bits came from Charlene Li’s Graphing Social Patterns talk. Here’s her follow-up blog post about the future of social media. And in other news:
- Google rolled out a secondary search box in organic search results and released an API for contacts.
- Ask.com will cut some employees, and initial reports (from reputable sources, like Reuters) said that the company would refocus their search engine to target married women/moms. But apparently early reports were a little off.
- Google Gears launched for mobile. Yahoo launched a private beta of a Twitter+location-based social network that relies on mobile users, Fire Eagle. But the biggest mobile news was Apple’s long-awaited iPhone SDK announcement.
- Market info firm TNS bought web analytics/traffic company Compete. Expect better integrated online-offline marketing data in the near future.
- Wal-Mart figures out that effective corporate blogging requires humans who are allowed to be human.