So says MediaPost after a couple of days of rumors. The rumored hypothetical purchase price is $2 billion. Forget about that for a moment, the acquisition would make Microsoft much more credible in the minds of advertisers than it has been to date and would also give a boost to AdCenter by association. In other […]
Entries from March 2007
Microsoft Ready to Acquire DoubleClick
March 29th, 2007 by Greg Sterling | 1 Comment
A Search Engine that Searches All
March 29th, 2007 by Arnold Zafra | 4 Comments
WebFetch, a new search engine that enables user to search the web via Google, Yahoo!, MSN Search and Ask.com all at the same time. This new search engine sorts search results in two ways, either through the traditional way of sorting by relevance or by search engine used, thus giving users the most […]
Google Notebook Leaves Beta, Gets New UI
March 29th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Google Notebook, Google’s online organizer, has left ‘beta’ and today got a brand new user interface. Perhaps this is an attempt to gather more user adoption with the tool, which has not been as popular as other Google offerings.
From Googlified :
The new UI is pretty slick, in my opinion, and with better usability than the […]
MIVA To Provide Contextual Advertising for Conde Nast UK
March 29th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
MIVA Media has signed an exclusive Pay-Per-Click content deal in the U.K. with Condé Nast Interactive. According to MIVA, Conde NAst chose their service over Yahoo Search Marketing & Google.
MIVA will deliver content driven Pay-Per-Click Ads across all 12 sites in the Condé Nast Interactive U.K. portfolio including Vogue.com, GQ.com, Glamourmagazine.com, CNtraveller.co.uk, Easylivingmagazine.co.uk, Bridesmagazine.co.uk, Houseandgarden.co.uk, […]
Yahoo! Opens Mail Web Services
March 29th, 2007 by Arnold Zafra | 1 Comment
A day after announcing the upgrade of Yahoo! Mail into unlimited storage capacity for registered users beginning in May, Yahoo! unveils the Yahoo! Mail Web Services. With the Yahoo! Mail Web Services, Yahoo! Mail APIs are now available to third party applications developer through SOAP or JSON. Yahoo is hoping to increase its current user […]
Looking at Google AdSense Placement on MySpace
March 28th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 36 Comments
Google and MySpace put together a major partnership last year with a focus on Google Advertising. About two months after the partnership, Google AdSense contextual ads began appearing throughout the MySpace social network.
A study was published yesterday by Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield estimating that MySpace is now generating over $30 million per month in […]
Google Products Now Pre-Installed On LG Handsets
March 28th, 2007 by Greg Sterling | 1 Comment
From the press release:
Select LG handsets, pre-installed with Google products and services will be shipped globally including North America, Europe and Asia starting in the second quarter of 2007. These handsets will create a more dynamic user experience, including one click access to Google search through an icon in the application menu. More features of […]
How Can We Improve the Umdum Web Directory?
March 28th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 11 Comments
As many long term Search Engine Journal readers know, our parent company also runs the Umdum Directory.
Umdum has been in existence for almost a year now and over the course of the past 10 months or so, we’ve received a lot of feedback from SEJ readers and Umdum customers.
Our goal is to maintain […]
AfterVote : An Ajax Powered Social Search Engine
March 27th, 2007 by Maki | 7 Comments
Younanimous is a AJAX-powered social search engine that provides users with additional details such as the Alexa Ranking, Google Page Rank and domain age for each website.
What’s interesting is the additional of social sharing buttons at the bottom of every individual link result. This allows you to instantly submit each link to websites like StumbleUpon, […]
Yahoo Mail Offering Unlimited Storage
March 27th, 2007 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments
To mark its ten year anniversary, Yahoo Mail has announced that it will be expanding its storage capacity to unlimited storage.
John Kremer posts on Yodel Anecdotal:
“As Yahoo! Mail approaches its 10-year anniversary, I’m the lucky one who gets to announce that we will begin offering everyone unlimited email storage starting in May 2007.”
Michael Arrington […]
