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Microo?
So Microsoft has tendered a bid to buy Yahoo! for $44.6bn.
I understand that Microsoft has to do something to build on its web strategy/presence. No-one uses Live Search, Live Spaces, or any of the rest. (OK. About one percent of people do). To build up any future trade for advertising, web services or development platforms, [...]
Lil’ Big Man
Heather Hopkins posts on the rise of UK rocker Lil’ Chris (the short kid in the second series of Rock School, UK TV viewers) from a search engine perspective and showing the impact of social networks. The graph really says it all:
There’s little to add to Heather’s excellent post, which I just wanted to draw [...]
Seeking Answers
Google Answers has been closed while Yahoo! Answers goes from strength to strength. The key difference between the two is that Google’s service paid vetted ‘experts’ to produce results, while Yahoo allows anyone to pitch in. The whole thing leaves a lot of questions.
I’m not sure whether the stats prove an uncomplicated victory for social [...]
Posted in business, social media, web 2.0 Also tagged google, social-search, wikipedia, yahoo 5 Comments
Betting on Search
My post on Saturday about prediction markets being a useful way to access collective intelligence brought a response from Gary of Tall Street. Tall Street is a new search engine which operates a form of stock market on search results. You search for and add sites to the system and invest pretend money in the [...]
Googling for Answers About Web 2.0
For some reason, my request for a face-to-face interview with Larry Page and Sergey Brin was unsuccessful. Apparently, I needed to ask in 1996 to get an appointment any time soon. Nonetheless, the Google people were keen to answer my questions about the business. On the less positive side, I had to do the whole [...]
Web Loses Sex Appeal
The Sydney Morning Herald reports the sad news that the internet has grown up:
Sex and pornography have been trounced by business and e-commerce as the most popular internet search topics, new research shows.
In their mid-90s heyday, sex-related topics accounted for 17 per cent of web searches, but that figure has shrunk to an unsexy 3.8 [...]
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