Fresh from having a nice breakfast with my Mom on this Mother’s Day, I decided to take a look at the search engine offerings. Live.com – no offering visible upon my visit. Ask.com – real nice offering of a heart with a tattoo looking thing that says “Mom” Google – Yahoo! – [...]
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Microsoft Strategic Account Summit 2007 – Post 2 SAS
Search Engine Land has a nice summary of the events yesterday. Barry pointed to a paidcontent.org write up that I had not seen that summarizes things well especially in the online, advertising and video arena. A Media Circus also has a detailed raw summary of the Bill Gates speech. Again, If you were in attendance, [...]
Microsoft Strategic Account Summit 2007
The main parts of the Microsoft Strategic Account Summit are today and Wednesday, here is the schedule. My initial thoughts: 1) I wish it were broadcast online, even the Chris Cornell concert, this is a lost opportunity for exposure to those who can’t be at the summit and build positive PR. 2) We’re going to [...]
Google Testing New Search Results Layout
As apparently first explained on Google Blogoscoped and then elsewhere, Google seems to be testing new home page results. If I were designing it I’d move the selector bar a bit to the left as my eye is drawn to it a bit too much, I’d also like to see blogs above news or with [...]
Hugh Griffiths Joins Microsoft as Director of Mobile
Mobile Entertainment reports that “Griffiths will be responsible for the overall strategy and direction of the mobile division within the Online Services Group division.” It’s interesting to see Microsoft bringing in outside talent for this type of role, we’ll see how this develops. Hugh sounds like someone I’d like to get to know.
Earth Day 2007 – A Search Engine View
Yahoo! – The Y is a spinning windmill and the exclamation point as CFL light bulb. Speaking of those, the site 18seconds.org redirects to green.yahoo.com, a list of activities are listed here. Google has a floating iceberg logo, if you click on it it leads to a list of relevant links. Live.com & Ask.com – [...]
Live.com Search Interview and Some Questions I Still Have
Rob Murray put up an interview with Derreck O’Connell on searchengineland.com. It was a nice interview but it didn’t get some questions asked that I’d love to know the answers to! When will Live.com have a blog search engine product offering? In the main Live.com index, many assert that blogs don’t receive as much weight [...]
Microsoft Executive Departures
The Wall Street Journal reported today that “Christopher Payne, who most recently served as vice president of Microsoft’s Windows Live Search group(formerly MSN), is leaving the software company, according to people familiar with the situation. It then goes on to say, “A person familiar with the situation says that Mr. Payne is leaving to start [...]
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