New York Times has reported that Yahoo is planning to buy Right Media, which owns an online advertising marketplace, for $680 mn -
Google and Yahoo each dominate one segment of the online advertising market. Google is best at selling text ads that appear alongside search results and on other websites. Yahoo, which has lagged Google in search, is a leader in selling graphical ads, mostly on its own sites.
With Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick and Yahoo’s acquisition of Right Media, both Google and Yahoo have moved beyond their traditional strengths and are now pitched squarely against each other in the battle to dominate online advertising.
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Google announced the expansion of its Search History feature to Web History today -
Web History lets you look back in time, revisit the sites you’ve browsed, and search over the full text of pages you’ve seen. It’s your slice of the web, at your fingertips.
- marking a paradigm shift in personalized search and raising new privacy concerns.
Also See: Search Engine Land, Techmeme, Anil Dash, Geek and Poke.
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
Read/Write Web thinks that Google is the ultimate money making machine because it matches unlimited demand with unlimited supply with almost no friction.
What do you think?
Many, including my wannabe-tech-evangelist friend Aditya, believe that mobile search is going to be the next big thing.
Read/Write Web has compiled an excellent 85 Piece Mobile Search Toolkit, complete with a download-able Excel spreadsheet.
I totally love these guys!
Saturday, April 7th, 2007
800GOOG411 - Google’s free voice-based local business search 411 service (FAQs) - is only available in the US now, but who knows about tomorrow? It looks as if Microsoft’sTellMe acquisition won’t be enough.
Aditya - Local search will be the cause of Google’s downfall, heh? 
Update 1 - TechCrunch points out that Jingle and AT&T are the other players in the free 411 market.
Update 2 - Read/Write Web extends the discussion to other talking search services.
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
At the Internet Marketing Monitor War Room, Google is still kicking ass, but Yahoo is fast catching up.
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
I picked up “The Search” by John Battelle because I was intrigued by the very philosophical idea idea of ’search’ being the ‘database of our intentions’. Now that I have read the book, I’m even more intrigued. Especially when I find that if you search for “search” on Google, Microsoft’s Live Search is displayed as the first result, ahead of Google itself! Such generosity warms my heart!
