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Category Archives: Search
The Simpsons on search engines
According to tonight’s Simpsons episode Homer knows his search engines. Marge confronts Homer about his work habits such as Googling his name until lunch and Homer made a note on his Flintstones fun map to use Ask Jeeves to find out more information about Dino.
InterActiveCorp acquires Ask Jeeves?
The New York Times reports that InterActiveCorp is close to an agreement to purchase Ask Jeeves for about $1.9 million: $1.2 billion in cash and $600 million in stock.
Yahoo! acquires Ludicorp and Flickr
has purchased Ludicorp and Flickr. “Pro account holders will get super mega bonuses, to be announced soon.”
Yahoo! Search web services
Yahoo!
Search engine statistics
James Lamberti, Vice President of Search Solutions at comscore Networks, presented today at the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York. comScore * 18% of searches come from toolbars * 58% of searchers have not installed toolbars * 12% of searchers have uninstalled the toolbar * 20% of the search users constitute 68% of the search volume.
David Sifry 106 Miles talk
I just finished editing the audio of David Sifry’s talk at the February meeting of 106 Miles, a networking group for entrepreneurial engineers in Silicon Valley.
Rumor: Yahoo! has purchased Flickr
supposedly purchased Flickr last week and will make an official announcement on March 1. I have heard similar chatter and frequent Flickr sightings on the Yahoo!
Microsoft issues security patch resets home pages to MSN
BusinessWeek: “It looks like Microsoft tried to get a little benefit for itself when it repaired a serious security flaw.” Microsoft issued a security patch for MSN Messenger earlier this month that reset a user’s browser home page to MSN by default.
Web Spam Squashing Summit will not be broadcast
Tomorrow’s Web Spam Squashing Summit will not be broadcast to the outside world. No IRC, no audio, and no video stream will be published of the event.