Kara Swisher in News on February 9 at 7:01 am PT
Craig Silverstein was at Google when Google wasn’t Google (or evil, either).
Kara Swisher in Commerce on July 28, 2011 at 9:15 am PT
How do you FindTheBest?
Well, starting out with $6 million in venture funding won’t hurt.
Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 1:39 pm PT
Demand Media handily beat Wall Street expectations in its first quarter results today, released after the market closed.
The company reported revenue of $79.5 million and six cents a share in adjusted net income.
Investors were expecting the company to report about $69.6 million in revenue for the three months, with four cents a share in profits.
On a GAAP basis, net loss per share was 13 cents compared to 94 cents a year ago.
Kara Swisher in Social on May 4, 2011 at 9:15 am PT
Online performance marketing firm Efficient Frontier is acquiring San Francisco-based social marketing software and services start-up Context Optional, the company said.
While terms of the deal were not revealed, sources said the price was $50 million.
The purchase of San Francisco’s Context Optional is the first one for Efficient Frontier.
Kara Swisher in News on April 17, 2011 at 11:29 pm PT
Tonight, Demand Media–in reaction to a new study showing that its flagship eHow site had now gotten much more negatively impacted by Google’s rejiggering of its search algorithm than previously–released a statement and blog post about the tempest.
The content maker’s unsurprising verdict on itself: We’re okay, thanks for asking!
Kara Swisher in News on March 31, 2011 at 1:25 am PT
Microsoft’s legal eagle Brad Smith didn’t even bother to pretend the software giant’s filing of a formal antitrust complaint against Google with the European Commission wasn’t a wee bit ironic.
Wrote Smith in a blog post late last night: “There of course will be some who will point out the irony in today’s filing.”
You think?
Kara Swisher in News on February 28, 2011 at 8:02 am PT
Yahoo’s Luke Beatty said he is not worried.
“We welcome the change,” he insisted about Google taking aim last Friday at so-called “content farms,” producers of low-quality content that spam up the Web and the search giant’s results. “And we endorse what Google is doing 100 percent.”
That’s ironic, given among those allegedly hit hardest by the tweaking of its famous algorithm–based on early, and perhaps questionable, surveys–is Yahoo’s Associated Content.
Its founder talked to BoomTown about the impact.
Kara Swisher in News on February 25, 2011 at 1:02 am PT
In another significant search announcement yesterday, Google said it was revising its algorithm to target makers of low-quality content.
Perhaps I’m being cynical, but the noisy search algorithm changes, while welcome to those using Google, also have a pretty clear goal to burnish the Silicon Valley company’s image.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 1, 2011 at 3:18 pm PT
Or in the words of the trade: Here’s a story you may be interested in.
Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2011 at 11:53 am PT
Perusing AOL’s leaked damn-the-journalism-full-speed-ahead business plan, BoomTown was a little late to the Microsoft Bing event this morning called “Farsight: Beyond the Search Box.”
But things had certainly been cooking with gas when I walked into the meeting room at the University of San Francisco, including allegations of cheating, honeypot stings and a whole lot of insulting of the hosts.
Schweeet!
