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The Associated Press (AP) is saying it hopes to negotiate more lucrative licensing deals with major web sites. Reporting for the AP…
The SEO industry has only seen one constant -- change. The well known proverb, "change is the only constant" should be stenciled somewhere near all our desks. Sometimes the change is wanted, and sometimes not. A specific aspect of SEO that has seen a lot of change is blended search. Jill Kocher of Practical-eCommerce wrote about her concern regarding blended search and e-commerce...
A little less than three months ago, Credit Suisse predicted that YouTube's 2009 losses would be in the neighborhood of $470 million. Which is, of course, quite bad. But a new report from RampRate - together with info out of Microsoft - makes it look like Google's video-sharing site is doing somewhat better.
It looks like Facebook isn't going to miss the real-time search boat. Instead, the social network has begun a little experiment, and it seems that it's started with Twitter's ideas on the subject and added some interesting features from there.
Ask.com has released a database of 300 million Q&A pairs available to users in the US and the UK. "Delivering the best answers though innovations in semantic search technology is the direction in which the search industry is headed, and Ask is best-placed to lead the industry in this regard given our database of hundreds of millions of questions, and our core search technologies," said…
Today eBay announced the completion of a tender offer for all outstanding common shares and American Depositary Shares (ADSs) of Gmarket. Back in April, eBay announced that it was spending $1.2 billion to acquire those shares. Gmarket is known as Korea's leading eCommerce business, and it will apparently be combined with eBay's existing online marketplace in Korea, Internet Auction Company.
