Google Getting Health-y In 2008
Microsoft’s HealthVault will have several months under its belt by the time Google Health, under the leadership of Marissa Mayer, finally debuts.Adam Bosworth ditched the promise of Google Health for the even more promising pastures of Facebook and whatever massive payout the social networking site will deliver. Mayer had to pick up the pieces as [...]
Yahoo ‘Peanut Butters’ Their Podcasts Site
The pruning of extraneous services at Yahoo continues, as news emerged that the Yahoo Podcasts Beta will shut down on Halloween. Brad Garlinghouse’s Peanut Butter Manifesto may have claimed another victim. The Yahoo Podcasts beta that launched in October 2005 won’t go beyond its second birthday. Visit the site today, and this message appears at [...]
Google Group Promises Five Solid Answers
In the Google Webmaster Help group, Google’s Search Evangelist Adam Lasnik has promised users that five big questions would be thoroughly answered in that group in the next two weeks. Got questions? We’ve got answers: at least five (5) substantive responses to your picks on webmaster’y topics over the next two weeks. We invite you [...]
Adam Bosworth Leaving Google
Adam Bosworth, who was charged with developing health information for Google Health, will be leaving the company to pursue other opportunities, the Times Online reported. John Batelle notes that Marissa Mayer will take over the position. Click to read the rest of this post… More: continued here adam bosworth leaving google
Bosworth Bails On Google Health
Adam Bosworth has opted to bow out of Google and the project he helped initiate, Google Health, for undisclosed reasons.Google and other search firms see plenty of money to be made on healthcare information. While Google’s health information plans may go much farther than just what they can provide in search, they will do so [...]
Schmidt Speaks From the Lion’s Den
It’s one thing to talk about Net Neutrality and a little regulation to a crowd of digerati idealists. It’s quite another to bring that up at the Masters of the Universe Ball. That’s the pet name I have for a number of billionaire and powerbroker gatherings that take place throughout the year – my personal [...]
Politicians Continue Courting Googlers
The US Presidential race has candidates chasing dollars like hounds after a fox, and one of their favorite destinations in rich Silicon Valley has been Google.People who have been with Google since its IPO days enjoyed watching the stock climb from an $85 debut to over $500 a share. Multiply that by enough stock options, [...]
Norah Jones Come Away With Me Jazz Music CD Review
The exceptionally talented Jazz artist Norah Jones has released her CD entitled Come Away With Me. I am very confident and happy to announce that I believe Norah Jones fans, and Jazz fans alike will be pleased with this one. With the release of Come Away With Me Norah Jones’s artistic excellence is on full [...]
Vanessa Fox Leaving Google
Big news from the world of Vanessa Fox. She is leaving Google, and moving onto a new role at Zillow. It should be fascinating to see what changes result from this. Google will miss her, because she developed into one of their public faces (ala Matt Cutts, and Adam Lasnik) that they could keep in [...]
Google Lets The Fox Out
The Google Eye-Candy Jar is officially less full. Webmaster Central’s Vanessa Fox is leaving the search giant to pursue Rand Fishkin a job with Zillow. Zillow is a real estate search engine, one that represents for Vanessa a new challenge in a new space. WebProNews (Mike) just about always manages to track her down at [...]
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