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Peak Google
O’Reilly Radar – Sebastopol,CA,USA
Yahoo search marketing is still in the stone age. "You give me money I put your ad way up top…duh." Yahoo’s Search Marketing program shouldn’t even be

Google

Microsoft Loses Internet Ground, Or Not?
InformationWeek – Manhasset,NY,USA
Depending on the headline you read, Microsoft is either treading water or losing ground to Google. A closer look at two takes on the Microsoft search share
‘New’ Clearwire forms with Google, Intel investment
MarketWatch – USA
Additional investors in the venture include Time Warner Cable (TWX: For Internet giant Google, the new Clearwire network represents another advance into a
Google helps with Santa Monica parking
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
Black Friday is a good day to highlight this neat little piece of technology: Google maps and the city of Santa Monica have teamed up to produce a real-time
Up To 10000 Google Jobs May Be On Chopping Block
AHN – USA
New York, NY (AHN) – Google’s layoffs appear to be larger than previous reports that only 300 employees from DoubleClick were laid off.
Google confirms its iPhone voice search violates Apple’s terms
TopNews – Little Rock,Arkansas,USA
According to BetaNews, a Google spokesperson has confirmed that the company’s new voice search for iPhone violates the terms of Apple’s SDK – the part of
Chattanooga: Tracking flu bug through Google
Trading Markets (press release) – Los Angeles,CA,USA
By tracking flu-related queries, researchers at Google.org say they can identify actual influenza outbreaks and provide Web surfers a real-time glimpse of
Weekly Search Buzz RoundUp – 11/28/08: Thanksgiving in the
Search Engine Roundtable – USA
Google is making street view more enhanced with new features. The pegman is now more visible and you can drag him from the zoom slider to activate street
Google’s Underdog Eyes …
InternetNews.com – USA
While Apple continues to dominate, Google-backed Android’s download store is open — but not very crowded. But that may change. By Judy Mottl: More stories
Google, Who Can Resist Thy Charms?
NewsFactor Network – Woodland Hills,CA,USA
By David Carr Google has begun to crowd out other brands. I was a loyal MapQuest guy, but as Google Maps added features, it seemed cumbersome to go
Google’s IPhone App Sets Trend Rebelling Against Apple’s Rules
DailyTech – Chicago,IL,USA
Google’s new voice-powered search lets you search for things on your iPhone without tiring your thumbs. It also breaks Apple’s developer agreement.

MSN

CEP News and MSN Sympatico Announce Partnership in French Finance
MarketWatch – USA
MONTREAL, Nov 28, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — CEP News and Sympatico MSN unveiled an exciting partnership today, in which CEP News will provide economic
What are the Loopholes in MSN search and how does Rankingloophole
American Chronicle – Beverly Hills,CA,USA
You guessed it right, MSN Search Engine. MSN search engine is today one of the top search engines in the market where in the people look out for millions of
MSN debuts new ad format with Madagascar campaign
Netimperative – London,England,UK
Paramount Pictures UK is promoting its latest film Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa with a one-day homepage takeover of MSN, using a new ‘Sidekick’ ad format.
Understanding Human Behavior
ADVANCE for LPNs – King of Prussia,PA,USA
By Sandy Keefe, MSN, RN "Psychiatric nursing is a lot different today than it was when many nurses were in school," said Bill Lightfoot, RN,
MSN’s Kirill hits 1m streams
C21Media – London,England,UK
MSN’s Endemol-produced original web series Kirill has already been streamed online more than one million times, despite launching less than a month ago.
Asustek upbeat on IT Month sales
Taipei Times – Taiwan
In related news, Microsoft’s MSN Windows Live online services group said yesterday it considered its proprietary Silverlight technology as an entrypoint

Yahoo

Brazil govt: Amazon deforestation up slightly
The Kindred Times – UT,USA
Brazil Add to My Yahoo! Environment News Add to My Yahoo! More News Feeds » Alerts Get an alert when there are new stories about: percentage point margin of
Search Growth For Yahoo And Microsoft
Digitaltrends.com – Lake Oswego,OR,USA
Both Yahoo and Microsoft searches have experienced good levels of growth in October, according to new figures. According to a new comScore report,
TechFlash | Next Yahoo CEO’s Seattle roots?
TechFlash – Seattle,WA,USA
By John Cook on November 28, 2008 at 10:41 PST Could a Seattle area technology executive be on the verge of taking the top job at Yahoo?
Afternoon Reading: Is Yahoo Nearing a Choice for CEO?
Wall Street Journal Blogs – New York,NY,USA
Is Yahoo’s search for a CEO nearing its conclusion? And who will Yahoo choose? Over at All Things Digital, those are the questions on Kara Swisher’s mind
Reuters

Yahoo shares surge after Icahn increases stake
Reuters – USA
According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Icahn bought roughly 6.8 million Yahoo shares over three days this week, paying around

Yang Leaves, Icahn Goes ‘Yahoo!’
Forbes – NY,USA
The billionaire activist investor bought an additional 6.8 million shares of the Internet search engine over the Thanksgiving week to up his stake in Yahoo!
Icahn Goes Long for Yahoo
Red Herring – CA,USA
by Ken Schachter The billionaire investor and Yahoo board member has acquired about 6.8 million more shares through entities he controls, according to
Yahoo, AMD gain, though techs end mixed
MarketWatch – USA
By MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Shares of Yahoo Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. rose sharply in shortened Friday trading following the
Target, Yahoo, Ford, Eli Lilly big movers
The Associated Press
NASDAQ Yahoo Inc., up 93 cents at $11.51 Activist investor Carl Icahn has bought up close to 7 million additional shares of the Internet company,
AFP

Icahn ups Yahoo stake to 5.4 percent
AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Corporate raider Carl Icahn increased his stake in Yahoo following the decision of co-founder Jerry Yang to step down as head of the

adWords

Do Dumb Ads Hurt Your Brand?
Traffick – USA
A not unfamiliar sight appeared in the right rail: one of those irrelevant AdWords ads that just shows up out of the blue because I’ve typed a word that
Telegraph.co.uk

Does IT work: Just Off Base
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
The company has added software utilities as they became available inexpensively elsewhere on the web; Google Adwords has become a useful advertising medium

Google AdWords Treats Accented Characters As Different Words
Search Engine Roundtable – USA
Did you know that using accented characters in Google AdWords would mean you need to use both variations? For example, if you advertiser for the keyword
Google targets small to medium-sized businesses
The Australian – Sydney,Australia
And specifically with Google Adwords it is a big opportunity for us. "In coming years we are going to see increasing numbers migrate online and we’ll be
With blessings from Google
Jerusalem Post – Israel
In the Google universe, words are no longer just words; they are now "Adwords," an advertising vehicle little understood by most people, but one with a huge

adSense

ITV Succumb to Google “Parasites,” In Denial About Imminent Lobotomy
Bad Idea – London,Greater London,UK
a deal with Google that will see Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Co. handle a large portion of ITV’s online advertising through it’s AdSense application.
ITV, Google Sign Paid Search Ads Deal; So Much For The ‘Parasite’
paidContent – London,UK
ITV.com will start running AdSense text ads on its search results pages in the next 10 days or so. Google has already powered ITV.com’s site search for 18
Is Google moving the goalposts?
SmartCompany.com.au – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
If that webpage is full of spam and AdSense, they will immediately leave and go back and click another Google listing. If the browser spends more time on

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