June, 2007
Referrals 2.0 launches to all AdSense publishers
The AdSense team today announced that referrals 2.0 will soon be available to all AdSense publishers in referrals-supported languages. Below is their press release: While some of you may already be familiar with referrals for Google products, this launch will greatly expand the inventory and functionality of referrals for AdSense publishers. Below we’ve highlighted a [...]
Google Pilots Program To Expand the Universe of Gadgets
Today, Google announced a new pilot initiative called Google Gadget Ventures aimed at bootstrapping an economic ecosystem around gadgets. Google Gadget Ventures will offer third-party gadget development and gadget-related businesses two types of funding: Grants of $5,000 to developers who’ve built gadgets in our directory that already receive at least 250,000 weekly page views. To [...]
Google Desktop now on Linux
Google Desktop hit the operating system trifecta today with the release of a version of Google Desktopâ„¢ for Linux. Now available on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, the Google Desktop application allows users of every major operating system to search their desktop and the web as quickly, easily and comprehensively as they search the [...]
Google Announced Earth Outreach Initiative
Google today announced the launch of Google Earth Outreach, a new program designed to help nonprofit organizations around the world leverage the power of Google Earth to illustrate and advocate for the important work that they do. The announcement was made at Google’s New York City office by Elliot Schrage, Google Vice President for Global [...]
Yahoo! Names Winner of the ‘Greenest City in America’ Challenge
Yahoo! today announced that Hastings, Nebraska, has won its “Be a Better Planet” Greenest City in America challenge. The birthplace of Kool-Aid, Hastings will receive a grand prize of $250,000 to be dedicated toward city greening projects, developed in conjunction with Global Green USA. More than 350 cities participated in the “Be a Better Planet” program, [...]
Local.com Announced Patent For Location-Based Search
Local.com today announced that the company has been awarded patent number 7,231,405 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the process of indexing and retrieving web-related information by geographical location. The patent covers local search technology related to identifying location information from web documents, indexing that information and making it searchable geographically. In Local.com’s [...]
Yahoo! Reorganizes Sales Force
Yahoo! will combine its Search and Display advertising sales teams in the US, and has appointed David Karnstedt, currently senior vice president of Yahoo!’s Search sales business, to lead the unified organization as Head of North American Sales. Karnstedt, a long-time Yahoo! executive and industry veteran will continue to report to Gregory Coleman, Yahoo!’s EVP [...]
Yahoo! Announces Agreement to Acquire Rivals.com
Yahoo! today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rivals.com, the leading online destination for college and high school sports and recruiting information. The acquisition will significantly expand the community offerings and open publishing capabilities of Yahoo! Sports, which has the most engaged sports audience on Internet. Financial terms were not [...]