Yahoo issued a press release today announcing the launch of a new search ranking algorithm to be used with their HotJobs service. They’ve named the new algorithm REAL, which stands for Relevance, Engagement, Availability, and Location: R – Relevance: Matching text in job titles and descriptions to the keywords candidates use E – Engagement: Measuring …
When you update iTunes, Apple pushes their Safari browser to you. It’s not all that surprising that they’d want to do this, considering they now have Safari for Windows, and pretty much told everyone that they’d be doing it. But nevertheless, the move seems to have ruffled a few feathers, particularly those at Mozilla. But …
Microsoft is still gunning for Yahoo in hopes that by acquiring the company they’d be able to take on and seriously compete with Google in the online realm. But according to the results of a new comScore report, taking on Yahoo doesn’t look like it’d help them all that much. In February 2008 both Microsoft …
Google Inc. lost their recent bid to obtain European Union-wide trademark protection for the term “Gmail”, the name of their web mail service. According to a ruling by the EU’s trademark agency, the Gmail name is too similar to an existing German trademark. A trademark for a slogan owned by German businessman Daniel Giersch contains …
China is cracking down on the coverage of riot and demonstrations in Tibet, and has now banned access to YouTube and Google News within the country. This is an attempt to stop the rapid spread of video footage and reports that have already been widely publicized throughout the world. In addition to YouTube and Google, …
As the amount of spam coming from Gmail accounts has been increasing in recent months, some have suggested that spammers have come up with a way to break past the captchas that protect Gmail with automated bots. Google, however, contends that this is simply not the case, and suggests instead that the driving force behind …
Omid Kordestani, Google’s senior vice president of global sales & business development, has made a generous $3 million donation to his alma mater, San Jose State University’s College of Engineering. His gift will establish an endowed chair to support faculty teaching in multidisciplinary programs at the college. In Forbes recent list of worldwide billionaires, Kordestani …
This week, Google announced that it will be holding a developers event in May that will cover a variety of topics as related to “Web 2.0″ application development. The event, known as “Google I/O” will span two days on May 28-29, 2008, and will be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Google engineers …
Google have all but conquered contextual-based advertising and are the clear leader in that area, however, they’ve yet to take the top spot in another area of online advertising: display advertising. However, the company does expect a bright future in this area, and are expecting to have a “very significant position” by 2008-2009. Key to …
In their efforts to avoid a takeover by Microsoft, Yahoo has been looking to the likes of AOL, News Corp. (MySpace), and Google to help fend off the Redmond giant. But now, it appears that at least one of them is dropping out of the game. According to the San Jose Mercury News, Ruport Murdoch …
