AOL buys Bebo for $850 million from Yahoo!
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 13th, 2008 Published in: Social Media Marketing, YahooThe BBC are reporting today that Time Warner’s AOL have bought Bebo from Yahoo! for $850 million. Not a bad price tag for a site with 40 million members, but surely Yahoo! could have made better use of the traffic? I would have thought that Bebo would have tied in quite nicely with MyBlogLog.
Perhaps they […]
UK Internet providers team up with Phorm to take a slice of the Internet advertising market
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 10th, 2008 Published in: Advertising, Google, Google Adsense, MSN, Marketing, YahooNot sure if this old news or not but interesting all the same if you haven’t read about it yet. The NYTimes reported last month that 3 UK Internet providers (BT, Carphone Warehouse and Virginmedia) are teaming up to offer an advertising alternative to that offered by the big 3 search engines.
The 3 companies have allowed ad […]
Yahoo! Search to offer an open search platform
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 26th, 2008 Published in: Local Search, Search Engine Optimisation, YahooYahoo announced today the launch of Yahoo! Search Experience, a 3rd party development platform to enable websites to include more information in Yahoo! search results.
This new scheme looks pretty cool and seems to be somewhat of a competing service to Google’s Universal Search / Local Search / etc. Check out the screenshot on the Y! […]
OK search engines, you want to fight spam?
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: July 24th, 2006 Published in: Ask, Google, MSN, Public Relations, Rants n Drama, Search Engine Optimisation, Spam, YahooSimple solution. Well for part of the problem anyway. Sparked from a discussion on Threadwatch, here’s a thought for Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask. Kill the SEO agency.
Sure, they no doubt spend a load on PPC and it could very will be killing off a reasonable source of business for you, but hey - it’s […]
Yahoo! launch Yahoo! Video
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: June 2nd, 2006 Published in: YahooToday, Yahoo! announced the launch of an upgraded video search service (http://video.yahoo.com/). The service boasts features such as:
Redesigned interface.
Videos from many sources including user RSS feeds and major video publishers.
“Channels” setup to allow users to view content produced / submitted by a common source.
MyFavourites integration.
Content distribution - videos can be pasted into web pages in […]
15th International WWW conference - Edinburgh May 2006
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: May 26th, 2006 Published in: Google, Link Building, MSN, Search Engine Optimisation, Spam, YahooThe 15th International WWW conference took place in Edinburgh this week with keynote speaker, Tim Berners-Lee and Yahoo (Yahoo blog link) in attendance.
“The World Wide Web Conference is the global event to bring together the key influencers, decision makers, technologists, businesses and standards bodies shaping the future of the web.
Organised by the International World Wide Web […]
Google Coop Launched
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: May 16th, 2006 Published in: Google, Search Engine Optimisation, YahooThreadWatch have reported that Google have launched a new feature named “Google Coop” and Yahoo are displaying Yahoo Answers results in SERPs also this week.
The jist of of it is that they are both trying to take various approaches to using user input to tailor and / or refine results. Not exactly groundbreaking stuff - should […]