By Mayan Kumar at February 05, 2008 0 Comments
After the let down of Google’s Opensocial attempt, Google has now launched Social Graph API, which aims to be a centralized place which web services can use to access relationships between people. So, how does it work? FOAF and XFN are used to provide information about relationships between people in hyperlinks. For instance, an example of XFN hyperlink would be “<a href=”http://jeff.example.org” rel=”friend met”>” which says that Jeff is my friend. Google’s crawler which already indexes links for its search engine, will now also build More»
Labels: Facebook, google, Search
By Daya Baran at January 31, 2008 0 Comments
Google’s fourth quarter earnings missed Wall Street estimates, sending the stock crashing after hours.
According to Thomson Financial, Google’s fourth quarter revenue came in at $4.83 billion, which was up 51% from a year ago. After advertising sales costs revenue came in at $3.39 billion, below the $3.45 billion analysts had expected.
“We’re very pleased with our performance this quarter,” said Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. “It reflects strong momentum in our core business, growing receptivity to our new business initiatives, and improved discipline in managing our operating expenses.”
Google’s closest rival Yahoo! also disappointed Wall Street when fourth quarter net income fell More»
Labels: Microsoft, Online Advertising, Search, YHOO
By Reshma Kumar at January 23, 2008 0 Comments
Gil Penchina, CEO of Wikia.com will be the first headline Keynote Speaker at the upcoming WebGuild Web 2.0 Conference & Expo on Tuesday, January 29, 2008. Wikia is a community destination supporting the creation and development of wiki communities on any topic people are passionate about. They currently support over 4,700 communities in more than 70 languages. Part of the free culture movement, Wikia content is released under a free content license and operates on the Open Source MediaWiki software. Explore their existing communities or More»
Labels: Search, search engine, social networks, Social Search
By Daya Baran at January 13, 2008 6 Comments
Last year when I met Terry Semel, Yahoo’s CEO, and asked him if a Yahoo takeover by Microsoft was inevitable, he looked at me as if he had swallowed a frog. This week at CES, Joe Hunkins asked David Filo, Yahoo’s co-Founder, the same question and if he had met with Bill Gates, Microsoft’s Chairman & Founder, to which Filo responded he had not. However, the evidence seems to be mounting to the contrary and rumor mills are gathering speed. Is this all baseless? Let’s examine.
Microsoft, which is a distant third in the search market has More»
Labels: Microsoft, Online Advertising, Search, Yahoo
By Reshma Kumar at January 12, 2008 0 Comments
There is a useful video from Google providing tips on how to prevent the indexing of web pages you don’t want Google to crawl so it doesn’t show up on the web.
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Labels: google, Search, search engine
By Reshma Kumar at January 08, 2008 0 Comments
This is super cool and interesting. Imaging having your flattened gif text or video being read and indexed by the search engines - in particular, Google. Well, it might just happen. Google has apparently filed an application with the World Intellectual Property Organization to patent such a technology. “The method also includes searching a collection of keywords including keywords extracted from image text, retrieving an image associated with extracted image text corresponding to one or more of the image search terms, and presenting the image.” Already in Google Image searches, you get the image thumbnail view, title and url More»
Labels: google, Search
By Reshma Kumar at January 02, 2008 0 Comments
Wiki-hosting company, Wikia, is set to release Wikia Search, a community driven search engine, on Monday. Wikipedia co-founder, Jimmy Wales, who is behind this says the goal is to let volunteers improve search technology collectively, the way Wikipedia lets anyone add or change entries, regardless of expertise.
Wikia Search’s tag line is “building a new open global search engine” and is focused on enabling transparency in how the search systems and algorithms work, crowdsourcing so everyone is able to contribute, improving the relevancy and accuracy of search results, and protecting users’ privacy More»
Labels: Search, search engine
By Daya Baran at December 30, 2007 0 Comments
Baidu, the top search engine in China, reported that Shawn Wang, CFO, Baidu.com, was killed in an accident on December 27, 2007.
“We are all completely shocked and deeply saddened by this tragic news,” said Robin Li, Baidu’s chairman and CEO, in a statement that described Wang as a “tremendous leader” and “wonderful friend.”
The company did not provide details of the fatal accident, except to say that it took place “in China during the Christmas holiday vacation.”
Wang had helped guide the company through its 2005 IPO on the Nasdaq. A new CFO has not been named yet.
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Labels: Search
By Daya Baran at December 28, 2007 0 Comments
In December 2005, Google invested $1 Billion for 5% of AOL as part of a search and advertising partnership. The terms also gave Google the right to force Time Warner, parent of AOL, to conduct an AOL IPO or buy AOL’s stake back at “fair market value” as of July 1, 2008.
Beginning on July 1, 2008, we will have certain rights to require HoldCo to register the HoldCo interests held by us for sale in a public offering. If we exercise More»
Labels: Online Advertising, Search
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