In case you haven’t noticed yet, Yahoo has been hard at work lately. If you missed it, Yahoo now has its own toolbar. In a similar fashion the Google toolbar works, Yahoo just introduced Web Rank™. Web Rank™ happens to be Yahoo’s new search engine algorithm, as well as the name it gave its new toolbar.
Quigo announced yesterday it closed a $5 million round of venture funding as the New York search startup prepares to take on Google in the contextual advertising market.
A consulting firm called CHI Research makes finding high-tech companies and start-ups its business. Two years back, when I asked CHI to share its top 10 tech-stock picks with BusinessWeek readers, half the names on the list were new to me.
People are always asking me how to be a blogging bigshot, and/or what will be the Next Big Thing in blogging. I don’t claim to have any very special expertise in that area, but I do have some thoughts. In fact, I have some thoughts that combine the two subjects.
“Part of the exodus has been partly AOL’s own doing. Through its relationship with popular portal Google, AOL has “alerted users to what’s existed beyond AOL,” said Jordan Rohan, an analyst at Schwab SoundView.
New changes at Yahoo’s search technology are welcomed
Google dance update on ‘Brandy’
Search ads help bring viewers to news sites
Update on “Brandy” (the current Google Dance)
Internet marketing more effective than TV ads
