One day goes by, I get all wickety about not posting. I'm in year-end crunch on FM, and have not been posting today. Forgive me. There is much news, SearchMob has a lot of it…….
More and more info coming out on Yahoo's big Panama release. From a Bloomberg roundup: Yahoo! Inc., the second most-used Internet search engine, released new advertising software to all U.S. customers in a push to close the gap with Google Inc. Clients can sign up for a new account…
Yahoo! Inc., the second most-used Internet search engine, released new advertising software to all U.S. customers in a push to close the gap with Google Inc.
Clients can sign up for a new account and use the upgraded software today, said Steve Mitgang, a Yahoo senior vice president. Customers who already have accounts are being switched over to the software, called Project Panama, he said.
In response to what I noted below, Matt accuses Yahoo of stealing Google's approach to displaying ads. Be careful, Mattt… Jeremy can respond with proof that Google ripped off Overture……
More on what's new here….
Jeremy wonders….
VentureBeat has the news on Xcavator….
Wapo: Seeking Iran Intelligence, U.S. Tries Google Internet Search Yields Names Cited in U.N. Draft Resolution…
Zoho Keeps the Pace Up Enhancing It's Web-Based Word Processing Service Go Mobile With Flickr Ants, Dolphins & Information Retrieval (No Fooling) 'Ask City' Debuts for Local Maps & Search 61 Online Video Sharing Sites Feature Comparison…
Early in my ponderings around Google Book Search and the library program, I wondered: First, who is making the money? Second, who owns the rights to leverage this new innovation – the public, the publisher, or … Google? Will Google make the books it scans available for all comers…
First, who is making the money? Second, who owns the rights to leverage this new innovation – the public, the publisher, or … Google? Will Google make the books it scans available for all comers to crawl and index? Certainly the answer seems to be no. Google is doing this so as to make its own index superior, and to gain competitive advantage over others.
Well, the early results are in, and as Tim O’Rielly (a major publisher and a partner of mine) puts it, “Book Search Should Work Like Web Search.” But it doesn’t.
Read MoreSeveral blogs have noticed a large Firefox banner on Google's homepage, but it seems to be in limited production at the moment. This ad follows Google's previous promotion, but this one is bigger and at the top like a traditional banner….
