Clash Of The Net Titans: Google V. Everyone
The race for Internet supremacy is getting more intense by the day. Internet giants, especially Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, are fee-fie-foe-fumming and smelling blood everywhere as they retool their strategies for complete omnipresence. But they've also decided not to go it alone as they form supergiant alliances.Read More → ^ TOP
AOL Germany for sale?
Time Warner is to sell its German subsidiary AOL Deutschland, according to financial news agency DPA. Read More → ^ TOPJustice Unworried About IE7 Search
Google had complained to US and European antitrust regulators about Microsoft including a search box with MSN Search as the default in Internet Explorer 7, but the Department of Justice had no problems with the feature. Read More → ^ TOPMicrosoft Targeting Google, Maybe
Frequent media stories that aim at pushing Microsoft and Google into an all-out battle royale don't really hit the mark according to Microsoft's CEO.Read More → ^ TOP
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Target Cell Searches
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft all want to enable their search engines on cellular phones, which they hope will compel users to adopt their other services, such as downloading Google maps and directions and sending Yahoo e-mail and MSN instant messages, the Wall Street Journal reports. Read More → ^ TOPAmazon Switches To Microsoft Search Engine From Google
Amazon's A9 search engine breaks down searches into various categories, such as Web searches, book searches, and blog searches. It's a standalone search site, www.a9.com, as well as the search technology used on the www.amazon.com Web site. Read More → ^ TOPGates Says Microsoft Will Keep Google Honest
When it comes to search and Internet advertising, there is no doubt that Google has taken an early and significant lead. On Wednesday, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates promised that his company "would keep them honest" Although while speaking to a group of MSN's largest advertisers, gates admitted that Microsoft would rather not be coming from behind. Read More → ^ TOPMicrosoft Leaks Memo, Plots With Yahoo
Shadowy skullduggery, twilight tete-a-tetes, and disseminated disinformation may have all been part of rumored talks between Yahoo and Microsoft about their online rival, Google.Read More → ^ TOP
Yahoo & Microsoft Have Talked Partnering, Merging
I was talking with Kevin Delaney of the Wall Street Journal on Monday about search things in general and mentioned the sense it makes for Microsoft and Yahoo to get together. Microsoft is behind with the core search technology. Yahoo's been struggling to upgrade its paid search service. Let's get these two kids together! And today in the Wall Street Journal, it turns out that there's apparently a faction at Microsoft that wants to do just that.Read More → ^ TOP
