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Microsoft Sweetens Yahoo Bid; Yahoo Again Declines; Microsoft Exits Stage Left

Following insider speculation that Microsoft had increased its bid for Yahoo "by a few dollars," resulting in merger talks, Microsoft announced Saturday that it is withdrawing its bid for the search company. The change of heart occurred when CEOs Steve Ballmer and Jerry Yang, as well as Yahoo co-founder David Filo and Microsoft online president Kevin Johnson, met to discuss options in Seattle on Saturday.  [...]
Posted: Monday, May 5th 2008

Ask.com Launches Guerrilla Effort against Google in U.K.

Ask.com has launched a guerrilla marketing campaign in the U.K. to curb Google's 75 percent market-share dominance there, according to CNET. Posters showing a hand holding a megaphone and urging people to "Stop the Online Information Monopoly" recently began appearing in London subway trains and stations. Ask's name is not on the posters, but the company plans t  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 15th 2007

MSN Search Launches Sexy Viral to Combat Google

The strikingly beautiful mascot behind MSN Search's viral Ms. Dewey sure beats a guy in a chicken suit - at least that's what MSN is hoping. The wisecracking Ms. Dewey is set in front of a futuristic cityscape and responds to users' search queries with a wide arrray of prop comedy and theatrics. Created by web shop Evolution Bureau, Ms. Dewey is played by actress Javina Gavankar. Mirroring Burger Kin  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, November 15th 2006

Justice Rejects Google's IE 7 Protest

The Justice Department has concluded that Google's complaint regarding the default settings for the search box in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 do not violate Microsoft's antitrust agreement with federal and state governments, reports newsfactor.com (via paidContent). Google had alle  [...]
Posted: Thursday, May 18th 2006

Google Financial Forecast Posted on Web by Mistake

Google said investors should pay no mind to an internal financial forecast that was posted on its website by mistake and referred to concerns about narrowing advertising-profit margins because of tougher competition, reports the Associated Press. Google's revenue would rise about 55 percent this year, to $9.5 billion, according to the projection. In an SEC filing, Google said the notes, posted after last week'  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 8th 2006

Diller Will Fire Jeeves

Barry Diller announced Wednesday that IAC/InterActiveCorp, which in July completed its acquisition of AskJeeves, will phase out the ever-smiling butler, the Wall Street Journal (subscription) reported (via paidConte  [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 22nd 2005

Irredentists Use Google to Duel Online

A friendly territorial dispute between Canada and Denmark over a 1.3 square kilometer Arctic island has gone online, where a lone Canadian insurgent and an unknown enemy combatant, ostensibly a Dane, are waging an internet guerrilla war over Hans Island. Reuters reports that the two have placed online ads through Google about which country controls the piece of ice and rock situated between Canada a  [...]
Posted: Monday, August 1st 2005

Germans Ally with French to Counter Google Print Hegemony

To counter Google Print, the search giant's project to digitize and offer free, searchable versions of major university library collections in the United States, a task force of the German book trade association Boersenverein is organizing its own digital indexing project, Volltextsuche Online, reports the International Herald Tribune  [...]
Posted: Monday, June 6th 2005

Google Responds to French Fears of Digitized Library

In an otherwise completely derivative piece, The New York Times managed to eke out a response from Google on the ginning up of nationalist pique at the idea that the "Anglo" Google might become the arbiter of what gets published in its massive Google Print project. Said a European G  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, April 12th 2005

Google, Others Using 'Old' Web Tech to Make Sites into Applications

Google and other developers of new applications on the web are increasingly turning to Javascript and other technologies CNET calls "old school" in order to deliver exceptionally fast and flexible web services, like Google's new mapping application. The elephant in the room is the fear among many web publishers that using new standards championed by Micros  [...]
Posted: Thursday, March 17th 2005

Google Bans Own Pages for 'Cloaking'

Giving itself a taste of its own medicine, Google is banning some of its own pages for inadvertently using a forbidden search engine optimization tactic. After being hounded by the search engine optimization community for alleged "cloaking," Google investigated the claims, finding that indeed some of its pages were cloaked, according to SearchEngineWatch. Technically, there are some approved uses of cloaking, but Google's reactio  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, March 9th 2005

Google's Autolink Feature Thwarted for Some

It didn't take long for the web development community to create a work-around to help websites opt out of Google's new Autolink feature - the one that adds hot links for those running Google's toolbar to websites showing content, such as addresses, that could be linked over to presumably useful services like mapping applications. After just a week or two of carping code appeared on Threadwatch, along with   [...]
Posted: Monday, February 28th 2005

Firm Offers Brand-Your-Own Search Toolbars

SearchEngineLowdown: Search Engine Lowdown Toolbar WebProNews spotlighted Effective Brand, a company that developed a generic toolbar creation to  [...]
Posted: Wednesday, November 17th 2004

Book: Biz Queries Replacing Sex Searches

AP: Experts: Web Searches for Sex Declining Search queries for sex terms decreased from 20 percent of all web searches seven years ago to only five percent today. Of course, Europeans are still at it to the tune of about nine percent. It seems people are using the net nowadays for serious purposes, according to a new book out by a couple Pennsylvania researchers. They book stat  [...]
Posted: Friday, October 29th 2004

Dogs Start SEMPO 'Rival'

SearchEngineLowdown: SEMPO Organization Faces Fresh Challenger The major search engine trade group SEMPO will now face competition in the form of SEMPO-Tahoe, an alternative organization run by dogs. What appear to be two Labrador retrievers - one black and one yellow - have   [...]
Posted: Monday, September 27th 2004

Amazon's Search Site Has Porn Problem

CNET: Amazon pushing porn? Mild exampleAmazon's new A9 search engine, which takes Google results and garnishes them with images and other information, has not yet figured out a completely effective porn filter. Even with image filter settings set to "strict," some nudie pictures get through, ac  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, September 21st 2004

'Ask Jeeves' Shows Butler Alternative

SearchEngineLowdown: Oh No They Didn't! SearchEngineLowdown points to the "Aks Jeeves" site, an aptly-timed, probably racist parody of the Ask Jeeves site, which is now in the midst of changing its butler mascot. Querying the blackxploitat  [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 16th 2004

Search Gets Freaky with Streaming Belt Buckle

SearchEngineLowdown: The Search Engine Belt Buckle Proving itself again as the best source of search engine esoterica, SearchEngineLowdown points to the Engadget blog's Search Engine Belt Buckle, a PDA that dis  [...]
Posted: Thursday, August 26th 2004

Mysterious Billboard May Be Google Recruitment Ad

Builder UK: Does online puzzle lead to Google? A mysterious billb  [...]
Posted: Friday, July 9th 2004

SEO Contest Tests Ability to Game Google

Wired: A Contest to Outwit Google Winning, but  [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 8th 2004