Archive for the ‘search’ Category
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Surf Canyon is a startup focused on improving search results that a college friend of mine, Dave Hardtke, is chief scientist (despite my prior stated views on inflated startup titles I bit my tongue and didn't but Dave's chops). We had dinner tonite in SF in order to catch up ...
Posted in search, startups, surf canyon | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Presumably with a straight face Marshall Kirkpartrick over at Read/Write Web writes about Opera switching it's default search provider from Yahoo! to Google saying "Presumably there's some money changing hands."
Ya think? Search distribution is a big money game. Google pays $10 per box to Dell for pre-installing the Google Toolbar ...
Posted in google, microsoft, opera, search | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
Thanks for John Battelle and Eric Goldman for pointing out Utah's rediculous attempt to save businesses from the vagueries of competition. In a prior role, I had the good fortune to meet and get to know Eric. Eric's a really smart legal professor who has to be one of the leading legal ...
Posted in SEM, advertising, marketing, online advertising, search | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
History often repeats itself. In the history of computing - first you had IBM getting sued for antitrust, then Microsoft, and you have to wonder if Google is next.
Google, america's superstar business du jour, just won a lawsuit allowing it to reject ads from companies it does not ...
Posted in advertising, google, microsoft, search | No Comments »
