It’s not often you get to suggest that Google is playing “catch-up” to a competitor, so I’m sure the headline above will bring a wry smile to the folks at Yahoo.
Humor aside, it does appear that Google’s blog post, announcing their expansion of features for Google Mobile, is in reaction to Yahoo’s oneSearch initiative.
CBS Playing On The Digital Field
CBS plans to continue its relationship with new types of media. CEO, Leslie Moonves in a keynote address at CES in Las Vegas outlined plans for the media company. He believes CBS can continue to be relevant by changing with the times and further embracing new technology. He dismissed the perception that CBS was old media.
Google Sandbox Playing Favorites?
I don’t write as much as I used to or would like too. Web development takes up most my time these days.
Race For The Music-Playing Phone
Apple, creator or portable music player dominant the iPod, has begun training to defeat both Nokia and Microsoft in the race for music-playing phone supremacy.
MTV Playing Games With Xfire
Viacom has decided to pick up gaming tool developer Xfire for $102 million, and place it under the MTV Networks division.
CBS Content Playing On Blinkx
Don’t call the lawyers, though; CBS has approved this deal with Blinkx.tv, which makes localized content like news, weather, and entertainment available from CBS TV websites to the Blinkx search engine.
Toys ‘R’ Us Quits Playing With Amazon
The partnership between Amazon.com and Toys ‘R’ Us came to an end as a judge ruled in favor of the toy retailer and its desire to end the arrangement.
Playing Technorati Favorites
Technorati continues to crank out services faster than the Keelber’s can crank out cookies.
Playing with Sphere Beta
Tony Conrad, CEO of Sphere, came by Yahoo! on Friday to give a few of us a look at the blog search technology they’ve been building.
Google Levels European SEM Playing Field
One of the chief complaints of search engine marketing (SEM) agencies is that Google favors the big spenders with traditional business models when it comes to setting up an advertising campaign. In Europe, at least, that appears to be changing as Google releases its European Third Party program effective in January of 2006.