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The idea behind Yahoo BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is to let developers combine Yahoo's search index with their own applications. …
Gmail is growing rapidly. Yahoo has long dominated the race against Microsoft's Hotmail and Google's Gmail, but Gmail is on pace to overthrow the other two. I got in touch with Yahoo Mail's VP John Kremer to try and find out some expectations Yahoo has for Yahoo Mail.
The session "Measuring Search & Offline Marketing Success" touched on the importance of tracking offline conversions that start through search. (Coverage of SMX West continues at Webproworld Videos. Keep an eye on Webproworld for more notes and videos from the event this week.)
It’s tough to keep things quiet these days, especially with all that Twittering. Unnamed engineers drowning their overhead redundancy woes over the weekend passed on the news—with documentation—to a Berkeley grad student Bay Area executive that Google was trying to keep engineer layoffs out of the press.
In the session "Up Close with Google Maps & Local" the panel focused on factors that influence what appears and how it is ranked.
Online music radio and track play listening hours increased 37.6 percent to 6.67 billion in 2008, while in-stream audio sold against ad -supported cumulative hours rose by 46.1 percent to $74 million over the 12 month period, according to a report by AccuStream iMedia Research. The report, "Online Music Spins and Media Spend: 2003 - 2012," found that AOL's Shoutcast platform remains the most popular…
