Google to Offer Embedded Maps for Webmasters
A simplified way to “embed” Google Maps is apparently coming from Google next week, according to this story, in the Sydney Morning Herald: Google will...
Google & Yahoo : The Saviors of Newspapers
Google has officially expanded its newspaper print advertising program to 225 newspapers, offering advertisers a potential $1,000 financial incentive to try the newspaper program (click...
eBay’s Kijiji Launches in the US, To Challenge Craigslist
Modeled on Craiglist, eBay has been operating classifieds marketplace Kijiji for some time outside the US. Now the company has entered the competitive and somewhat...
Google Now a Phone Company : Acquiring GrandCentral
TechCrunch is reporting a rumor — and it’s often correct in these — that the telephony “management” startup GrandCentral has been acquired by Google for...
What Should Yahoo! Do?
I and others have spoken of the need for morale boosting and a new vision/strategy at Yahoo! That’s much easier said than done and what...
Privacy Is Search’s New Click Fraud
In this Google Blog post, Google discusses its privacy protection efforts and its response to the recent EU complaint and investigation about data retention. In...
Yahoo Real Estate Improves HomeValues : Zillow & Yahoo Answers
Drawing partly on its relationship with Zillow, Yahoo! is launching an improved “HomeValues” section as part of Yahoo! Real Estate. It’s also integrating more community...
Google Neighborhood Search
Trulia has it, Yelp has it, Ask.com has it (there may be others) and now Google has it: neighborhood search capability. The benefits and rationale...
LocalGuides.com : Local + Social + Vertical
Google has taken up so much “shelf space” with coverage recently it’s hard to get to much else with any depth. But there are lots...
WPP, Not Microsoft, Grabs 24/7 Real Media
And it goes to WPP, according to the press release this morning (here’s the WSJ story). 24/7 Real Media was allegedly being looked at/shopped to...
Trulia Real Estate Search Adds Community
Trulia has always been an impressive site to me and it continues to become more feature rich. Today the company relaunched its site with more...
Google’s New ‘Lat Long’ Blog
John Hanke, Director Google Earth & Maps, announces the new blog: As web mapping (dare I say “the geoweb”?) matures, we’re finding that we have...
Microsoft Acquires Equity Stake in CareerBuilder.com
In a very interesting development, Microsoft has taken a 4% equity stake in number one jobs site CareerBuilder. Here’s the release. That means Tribune and...
Superpages.com Improves with Redesign
Although spotted last week, SuperPages put out a press release announcing changes and improvements on the site. Here’s a list of the enhancements from the...
Will Ask.com’s Ad Campaign Be Effective?
I continue to be fascinated by Ask and its mix of innovative ideas (Ask X, Ask City) and guts (the “information underground“). I have often...
Google Buying Wall Street Journal? When Donkeys Fly!
For those that are following the thus far (and hopefully always) unsuccessful attempt by Rupert Murdoch to buy Dow Jones, publisher of the WSJ, here’s...
Citysearch Updates & Adds Video
Today, IAC’s Citysearch becomes the first major local search consumer destination to add video on any kind of scale (note the qualifiers). In addition to...
AOL’s New Homepage & Social Media
Coming off the EconSM show last weekin LA, I’ve got social media on the brain. But if the user community is now a “perpetual focus...
Growth of New Mapping Mashups
The pace of development of new mapping mashups (mostly using Google Maps) is almost impossible to follow. But it’s one of the most interesting stories...
Yahoo & Newspapers Extend Relationship : Google DoubleClick Reaction?
On a day of news, news from newspapers. The newspaper industry Yahoo!-”Amigos” consortium is now formalizing and expanding its relationship in logical ways, using Yahoo!...
Yahoo! Maps Adds New Print Formatting
From the Yahoo! Maps and Local Blog: Based on a lot of user input, the latest update we’ve made to the Broadband version of Yahoo!...
Google OneBox Real Estate Search
Here’s an interesting post on searching for properties on Google from the Google Blog. Here’s their “OneBox” real estate search for Seattle Real Estate: Here’s...
DoubleClick Exchange Plan to Boost Value for Google, MSN, AOL or Yahoo Buyout
I’ve written about online ad “exchanges” in the past, which is one of the more interesting developments in online advertising in my opinion. There’s RightMedia,...
Google Products Now Pre-Installed On LG Handsets
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...
News Corp (MySpace) & NBC Partner to Build YouTube Rival
Speaking of video . . . As is being widely picked up this morning, the LA Times is reporting on a YouTube rival being created...
Google Pay Per Action : Affiliates, Text Links & Click Fraud Implications
Yesterday saw the launch of the Google pay-per-action (cost per action) product on AdSense. I didn’t have a chance to write about it (or even...
‘Portalization’ of MySpace
An article in the eMarketer newsletter today predicts that the “four big portals” (Google, Yahoo!, AOL, MSN) are grabbing an increasing share of online ad...
Microsoft Confirms Tellme ‘Mobile Local Search’ Acquisition
Here’s the release. Here are my previous posts on Tellme and mobile local search. Bringing more usability to mobile search in particular — and differentiation...
Topix Branding Strategy : .com vs .net
I was at Topix last week chatting with Chris Tolles and CEO Rick Skrenta and they told me of their acquisition of the Topix.com domain...
Google Local Business Center Enhancements
As I was driving all over “God’s creation” today, from meeting to meeting, there were a number of interesting developments and announcements. The first concerned...