Have you seen the onboxed (integrated) site search feature Google rolled out? It looks like this:
The results you get look like this:
Notice how there are ads over there on the right? That’s getting the second click.
A location service from Yahoo, cool implications.
A-1 article in the LA Times….I am quoted.
Or, Ask is asking. Let me give you my first take on this news: Whaaaaaaaaaa?
SAN FRANCISCO – In a dramatic about-face, Ask.com is abandoning its effort to outshine Internet search leader Google Inc. and will instead focus on a narrower market consisting of married women looking for help managing their lives.
As part of the new direction outlined Tuesday, Ask will lay off about 40 employees, or 8 percent of its work force.
This feels like a defection driven by Google’s lack of a media mentality plus a chance for Sheryl to be a senior exec at a startup. More when I grok more fully, I have been offline for a while.
Remember when Google put Cnet in the penalty box? Well, it looks like Cnet (and the same reporter, no less) is spoiling to get there again. I for one can’t imagine it’ll happen again, but one never knows.
Microsoft and the answer to Google Apps from VentureBeat.
I know the folks behind this. This is going to be amazing.
ANOTHER PLANET, SUPERFLY AND STARR HILL ANNOUNCE THE INAUGURAL OUTSIDE LANDS MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL
MAJOR THREE-DAY EVENT TO TAKE PLACE AUGUST 22 – 24 IN SAN FRANCISCO’S GOLDEN GATE PARK
RADIOHEAD, TOM PETTY AND JACK JOHNSON TO HEADLINE
Another Planet Entertainment, Superfly Productions and Starr Hill Presents, in a partnership with the San Francisco Recreation & Park Department, are proud to introduce the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival. The inaugural multi-faceted, three-day festival will take place in San Francisco’s historic Golden Gate Park August 22 – 24, 2008. Radiohead, Tom Petty and Jack Johnson will headline the event. Full lineup, ticketing, on-sale and other information will be announced throughout the coming weeks.
Watch for what MySpace does. Trust me on this one. Link.
Google, you are all powerful. But why do you give me this as the result for “Italy Map“? Why not…er…Google Maps results?
