July, 2007
Yahoo! Appoints Maggie Wilderotter to Board of Directors
Yahoo!, today announced the appointment of Maggie Wilderotter to the company’s Board of Directors. Wilderotter brings extensive experience in technology, communications and business operations to Yahoo!. Currently she is chairman and chief executive officer of Citizens Communications Company, a full-service communications provider and the second-largest local exchange telephone company in the country. Wilderotter oversees all [...]
Wikia Release Open Source Distributed Web Crawler
Wikia, Inc. today unveiled major next steps in its work to build a new search platform founded on open-source search protocols and human collaboration at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). In a morning keynote address, Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales discussed business models and his vision for building the LAMP stack for search, which can be [...]
Three new Features in Live Search Images
The Live Search Blog today announced three new features for Live’s Image Search, that help you find faces, portraits and black and white images. Try these links to see them in action: without the new features – jimi hendrix with new face filtering on – jimi hendrix filter:face with new portrait filtering on – jimi [...]
Google’s Unavailable_After META Tag has Arrived
Google’s Dan Crow announced today that the Unavailable_After META tag is now live: “We have introduced a new META tag that allows you to tell us when a page should be removed from the main Google web search results: the aptly named unavailable_after tag. This one follows a similar syntax to other REP META tags. [...]
Sprint and Google to Collaborate on WiMAX Mobile Internet Services
Mobile broadband pioneer Sprint announced it is working with Google to bring WiMAX mobile Internet customers search, interactive communications and social networking tools though a new mobile portal. The collaboration between Sprint and Google will help spur new mobility and location-assisted services as Sprint untethers Internet access for consumers, businesses and government customers. Sprint is [...]
Microsoft to Acquire Ad Network AdECN
Microsoft today announced it has agreed to acquire AdECN, Inc., an advertising exchange platform company based near Santa Barbara, Calif. AdECN’s technology serves as a hub where advertising networks can come together in a neutral, real-time auction marketplace for buying and selling display advertising. The deal is a key component of Microsoft’s strategy to develop [...]
Google Earth Enterprise Goes 2D in the Browser
Today, Google announced that business and government users of Google Earth Enterprise will be able to view their organization’s geospatial data in 2D on a browser, behind the firewall. Through a special version of the Google Maps API (the programming interface for Google Maps), administrators can also embed this 2D view into any web application [...]
Yellow Pages Company Acquires Business.com
R.H. Donnelley Corporation , one of the nation’s leading Yellow Pages and online local commercial search companies, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Business.com, a leading business search engine and directory and pay-per-click advertising network. Through this transaction, R.H. Donnelley will add to its existing interactive portfolio a rapidly growing [...]