Ask Not What Your Marketing Can Do For You…
Ask.com has seen brighter days. It’s one thing when nobody thinks you can compete with Google (Yahoo and MSN have yet to accomplish that), but it’s quite another to lose continually despite all efforts. The algorithm may have killed Jeeves, but that may have been a bad idea. (Technically, Jeeves is encased in carbonite. We [...]
Privacy Groups Ping FTC Over Google/DoubleClick
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), and US Public Interest Research Group (US PRIG), are about as happy about the Google DoubleClick deal as Microsoft was, but for different reasons. Microsoft’s beef (as everybody sat back, pointed, and tried to decide between pot and kettle) was about antitrust concerns. [...]
Yahoo: The Social Search Engine?
There’s no denying that Google is far and away the most visited search engine on the Internet, eclipsing Yahoo in terms of user base by quite a significant margin. Is it possible that Yahoo could make up some of that ground by leveraging itself as a niche search portal, specializing in social search? Gord Hotchkiss [...]
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