Yahoo! chief! scientist! joins! Microsoft!
Microsoft has hired Yahoos head of research and chief scientist Gary Flake to work on its portal and desktop search Flake joined Yahoo when it acquired Overture in He wasnt there long joining the previous year from research and most of Overtures key patents were filed before his arrival
However as Overtures chief science officer he oversaw the growth of the companys pioneering text classified ad business that was responsible for Overtures and later Yahoos phenomenal growth
Overture sued Google for patent violation in and Yahoo inherited the litigation Google settled in Yahoo...
Clicking in Brazil
Searching for a slice
So many upstarts are slicing Web search into so many nicheseg travel shopping tickets teensits easy to imagine that many of them will be too thin and slip through the cracks of consumer interest But while the searchmarketing dollars keep adding up vertical players will continue to line up for a share Or for a buyout by the three kings Google Yahoo or
Travelpostcom offers a nice twist on the travel genre however The new beta site lets people set up a travel blog and find getaway information such as maps...
Inside Yahoo News: Aggregator brings RSS to the masses
There are two ways to view Yahoo News One is to dismiss it as simply a collection of other peoples journalism slapped together and considered just another feature of a big Internet portal The other is to sit in awe of a site that includes some of the best journalism created packages it in a simple way with links to outside sources and balances human judgment with technological innovation
For the past year Ive wanted to peek inside the operation at Yahoo News and see for myself just how they made the sausage...
AOP Research Shows B2B Sites Are Snapping At The Heels Of Search Enginess - Press Release
New research from the Association of Online Publishers has shown that business decision makers regard businesstobusiness B2B websites as the most useful media source for finding workrelated information well ahead of print business publications national and regional newspapers and web portals
Thirtynine per cent of the 300 business decision makers interviewed by telephone in January said that search engines such as Google were the most useful source for finding information relating to their work...
AOP Research Shows B2B Sites Are Snapping At The Heels Of Search Engines, 7 Apr
calls for greater advertising spend on B2B websites
New research from the Association of Online Publishers has shown that business decision makers regard businesstobusiness B2B websites as the most useful media source for finding workrelated information well ahead of print business publications national and regional newspapers and web portals
Thirtynine per cent of the 300 business decision makers interviewed by telephone in January said that search engines such as Google were the most useful source for finding information relating to their work...