Ask is buying the company which owns Excite, along with iWon and a few other sites. Ask Jeeves Inc. will buy the privately owned Interactive Search Holdings Inc. (ISH) for about $343 million in a move that the Emeryville, California, company expects will double its search market share, it announced…
Ask is buying the company which owns Excite, along with iWon and a few other sites.
Ask Jeeves Inc. will buy the privately owned Interactive Search Holdings Inc. (ISH) for about $343 million in a move that the Emeryville, California, company expects will double its search market share, it announced Thursday.
Very interesting….Ask will have 7% share if the deal goes through…
Read MoreAnother press release, promising a revolution, this one from "AOMI," a Fort Worth, Texas company that will "revolutionize the way we search" by using "behavioral profiling, predictive modeling, and Neuro Intelligence…rendering existing search functionality obsolete." Oh, please. They're even code-naming the product "HAL." They promise, PROMISE, that "a prototype of…
Another press release, promising a revolution, this one from “AOMI,” a Fort Worth, Texas company that will “revolutionize the way we search” by using “behavioral profiling, predictive modeling, and Neuro Intelligence…rendering existing search functionality obsolete.” Oh, please. They’re even code-naming the product “HAL.” They promise, PROMISE, that “a prototype of this product will be completed in the coming months, and the public Beta will be released soon thereafter.”
The site is “under construction” and all I have is the release, which is in the extended entry below. The company is a division of Markettrix, which from what I can tell is an SEO/marketing services holding company (their site is very sketchy on details). So here’s my question: If you’re about to revolutionize search, why not just wait till you have the goods and open up your site to all comers? The word of mouth will get around in about a day, if not an hour. Why huff and puff in a press release? Why? Oh, yeah, now I remember.
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With regard to my earlier post on Oceana, cruise ships, CBS, advocacy ads, and Google…seems Yahoo has accepted Oceana's advertising, the same ads (I think) Google rejected. Oceana (an environmental group for readers just joining us), crows in a release: Oceana's Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Sharpless, praised Yahoo! for not…
With regard to my earlier post on Oceana, cruise ships, CBS, advocacy ads, and Google…seems Yahoo has accepted Oceana’s advertising, the same ads (I think) Google rejected.
Oceana (an environmental group for readers just joining us), crows in a release:
Oceana’s Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Sharpless, praised Yahoo! for not bowing to pressure from big corporate advertisers and allowing Oceana to express its positive message of preserving and protecting the world’s oceans.
“Yahoo should be applauded for having the courage to put freedom of expression before sales. If Royal Caribbean and the cruise industry can pay to publicize themselves in whichever venue they please, then we deserve to be able to show the facts about their environmental records. The public has a right to this information, and, much to its credit, Yahoo recognizes that,” said Sharpless.
Read MoreI've been thinking lately that blogs could learn a lot from talk radio. I'd not gotten to the point of really looking into this idea, which I am sure has been discussed in the blogosphere to no end. But the whole Stern thing seems to throw it in some relief….
I’ve been thinking lately that blogs could learn a lot from talk radio. I’d not gotten to the point of really looking into this idea, which I am sure has been discussed in the blogosphere to no end. But the whole Stern thing seems to throw it in some relief. Dan and Jeff have made the point, and I agree, if Howard Stern leaves Viacom, he should go to satellite/net radio, and that’d be the killer app those media need to take off.
(BTW it’s interesting to note how attenuated regulatory reach has become, in that it’s really only premised on the “public airwaves.” I’m not anti-regulation, but it seems to me we should trust people to make their own decisions about what information they want to consume. Banning Stern and others from the “public” airwaves does very little, in the end, save create “private” channels outside of regulatory (and therefore common cultural) reach. In other words, by forcing our citizens to make choices outside of our attenuated cultural commons, by refusing to be inclusive in what we allow into the public space, we are weakening our social fabric, driving conversation underground, and lessening the trust and responsibility which binds us as a society. Is that a good thing?)
Notwithstanding the larger regulatory questions, Stern leaving radio and heading for the Net could be a great thing – for the Net, in any case (it’s also quite unlikely, but…). If he did, it would create all sorts of interesting issues from the standpoint of programming and UI. The program is predicated on real-time community – the call ins, the references to breaking news, etc. When it heads to the internet, it will, I would hope, be wrapped in all sorts of new media forms – time shifted, cut and pasted, linked, etc. The show will change, for sure, and many, many new shows will thrive in the traces Stern would create. If Stern does do this, I hope he and his folks think it through. They shouldn’t adopt a Clear Channel/Viacom/Comcast-like approach to the Web, but instead try to do something that feels native. Stern has a chance to be an innovator in a new medium. He already has plenty of money. Why not try this?
Read MoreIt's good to know there's a reporter out there covering this space who has an institutional memory. Stefanie Olsen reminds us of the importance of patents in the search game, and in particular of the simmering litigation between Google and Yahoo. She also includes this gem in her round up:…
It’s good to know there’s a reporter out there covering this space who has an institutional memory. Stefanie Olsen reminds us of the importance of patents in the search game, and in particular of the simmering litigation between Google and Yahoo. She also includes this gem in her round up: “Amazon.com has also laid claim to a patent that could affect search-related advertising. In March, it updated an application for a method of auctioning off ads that appear on a Web page.” I’m going to see Udi, who runs A9, later this week. I am sure interesting things are coming out of that shop.
PS – if you’re a patent watcher, head to Gary’s site, where he posts search related patents on a monthly basis…
Via Wonk…Toyota sponsors section of eBay….this exclusive arrangement points to where online marketing is going. Why? Because major advertisers are looking for traction in the medium where the customers are…and that's this one. I smell a significant uptick in online advertising this year, far larger than what is predicted……
Via Wonk…Toyota sponsors section of eBay….this exclusive arrangement points to where online marketing is going. Why? Because major advertisers are looking for traction in the medium where the customers are…and that’s this one. I smell a significant uptick in online advertising this year, far larger than what is predicted…
The entire publication archive of Time Magazine (1923 onwards) will be soon online, thanks to a partnership with HP. However, archives will only be available to Time subscribers. I wonder how they are going to deal with SERPs – will the archive be crawled? Will searchers find old issues and…
The entire publication archive of Time Magazine (1923 onwards) will be soon online, thanks to a partnership with HP. However, archives will only be available to Time subscribers. I wonder how they are going to deal with SERPs – will the archive be crawled? Will searchers find old issues and then be compelled to pay? We’ll see…
Adweek reports that Q4 2003 internet advertising hit $2.2 billion. As Wonk points out, this tops the previous quarterly record set during the bubble, $2.162 billion in the fourth quarter of 2000. And online advertising is really only starting to get traction…….
Adweek reports that Q4 2003 internet advertising hit $2.2 billion. As Wonk points out, this tops the previous quarterly record set during the bubble, $2.162 billion in the fourth quarter of 2000. And online advertising is really only starting to get traction….
Lycos is refocusing its efforts toward social networking services such as dating, finance, and the like, and away from search. Should be interesting to watch. I've come to the conclusion that social networks (orkut, friendster) can't make it alone, they have to be a feature of a larger platform. Not…
Lycos is refocusing its efforts toward social networking services such as dating, finance, and the like, and away from search. Should be interesting to watch. I’ve come to the conclusion that social networks (orkut, friendster) can’t make it alone, they have to be a feature of a larger platform. Not rocket science, I know, but it’s interesting to see Lycos lurch in that direction as well. IAR reports.
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