Tim posts on fellow editor Sarah Milstein's observations. Sarah wrote (and updates) Google: The Missing Manual. From her thoughts: As the Web gets bigger, search results contain more irrelevant stuff. In many cases, it's getting harder to find what you want. Appreciably harder. What do you all think? Yes…
As the Web gets bigger, search results contain more irrelevant stuff. In many cases, it’s getting harder to find what you want. Appreciably harder.
What do you all think? Yes or no?
Read MoreHow much do you think it'll set me back to own this? What a moron I am. Sheesh….
Here's an ajax timeline of acquisitions by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft over the last six years. By Shamula….
Here’s an ajax timeline of acquisitions by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft over the last six years. By Shamula.
Sun Debuts Open Source JAVA with GPL Microsoft Debuts I.T. Social Networking Site LYCOS Seeks Rebirth with LYCOS Cinema Microsoft Virtual Earth Debuts Optional 3-D Map Duno.com Better than Microsoft QnA and Yahoo…
Ted Leonsis, who helped build up AOL and recently left day to day operations there, is given WaPo love here. The topic: How Ted figured a way to look better in a vanity search for his name on Google. The answer: Hey! Get a blog!…
Ted Leonsis, who helped build up AOL and recently left day to day operations there, is given WaPo love here. The topic: How Ted figured a way to look better in a vanity search for his name on Google. The answer: Hey! Get a blog!
The Times continues it's fascination with all things Google in this Richard Siklos piece entitled "A Struggle Over Dominance and Definition." (image cropped from full image at Times site) It features this broadside from Microsoft's CEO Steve "I did not throw a chair at f*ing Google" Ballmer: "The truth…
It features this broadside from Microsoft’s CEO Steve “I did not throw a chair at f*ing Google” Ballmer: “The truth is, what Google is doing now is transferring the wealth out of the hands of rights holders into Google. So media companies around the world are all threatened by Google.”
What’s the nub of the story? Well, it’s this: Is Google a media company? Er….YES. YES! YEEEEESSSSSSS!!
Read More(photo credit) Dan Farber has a good writeup of my interview with Jim Lanzone, CEO of Ask, and his former boss, Steve Berkowitz, who left Ask to run MSN. Best line: "Google is the Model T of search." Well, Ford didn't stop innovating, of course, and it dominated the…
Does anyone know who actually filed this suit? This WaPo piece says it came from France. Trying to grok if this is a Big Deal or not. Given the lack of second beat stories, perhaps it's not……
This is a pretty funny find from Jeremy over at Yahoo, w/r/t Gmail and the "related links" ads at the top….
There's been a lot of coverage of my interview with Eric Schmidt at Web 2, but this angle (Guardian) was not that well covered. Till now. It's funny, while I was talking to him, I did not perceive Eric to have made such a strong statement, but the Guardian…
You stood up to the DOJ. And you also, in your own way, stood up to the traditional approaches of Wall St. Let me give you a scenario. If the government makes a request of Google that you and your management team believes is Evil, but it is legal under Patriot, will you stand up as you have before?
I’ll link to the podcast once it’s up so you can hear his response.
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