Yahoo Puts The Squeeze On Data

The next improvements to search marketing could come from Yahoo Research, where scientists look for all the meanings to be found in data.

Newspapers Sniping Over CareerBuilder

McClatchy, Gannett, and Tribune own parts of the CareerBuilder job listings site, but McClatchy is starting to feel like it's just heard the song stop during musical chairs, and all the seats are taken.

Pfffft! Teens Choose Mobiles Over Sex?

This is a British study, which may be why the Register's headline "Teenagers prefer mobiles to sex" made me spit coffee all over my monitor. Either times have really REALLY changed, or that's a somewhat geocentric result.

Xerox Takes A Stab At Semantic Search

Every day, we bring you news of the latest comings and goings in the search engine industry.  The names Google and Yahoo come up a lot . . . Xerox, not so much.  But it’s that last company that is preparing a semantics-based search engine.

A Better Ask Commercial (not saying much)

Ask has a new television commercial. And, yep, it’s . . . disappointing. Yes, the Lisa makes incredible points about how they’re still objectifying the opposite sex and how googling ogling Kato Kaelin is just plain weird. And yes, their campaign since hiring CB+P has been disjointed and disappointing. But since she’s covered all that so well, I hardly have anything to add. So I’ll…