4 posts and columns on Googzilla

Googzilla! Yahoo Japan Confirms Google Switch From Yahoo for Both Paid and Algo Search

in News on July 26, 2010 at 11:44 pm PT

As BoomTown reported earlier today, Yahoo Japan confirmed it would switch its search technology and paid search provider to Google from Yahoo. The move is a definite blow to Yahoo’s new search and advertising alliance with Microsoft, although Yahoo sought to minimize the damage in a statement. But make no mistake, given the huge Japanese market: It’s Googzilla totally wiping the floor with MicroHooSoftra.

Bartz of 100 Days: Tough Talk to Microsoft Talks

in News on April 13, 2009 at 8:30 am PT

Here’s an interesting irony–Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz will have her 99th day in office on the very one that the Internet giant will announce its first-quarter earnings: April 21, 2009 at 2 p.m. PST. Technically, it will mean that she has been running Yahoo for 100 days, a time when most administrations get their first evaluation. Thus, if it’s good enough for President Obama, it’s good enough for Bartz! While most expect the results for the quarter to be weak, due to the econalypse, the overall verdict from BoomTown’s needling of Yahoos to give me info on their new leader recently: Love, love, love Bartz’s innate decisiveness, and wanting more of the same.
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BoomTown Decodes Google's Phish-y Associated Press Blog (So You Don't Have To)!

in News on April 8, 2009 at 10:01 am PT

Yesterday, in response to Associated Press board Chairman and MediaNews Group CEO Dean Singleton’s diatribe against those who shoplift news and his pledge to “protect news content from misappropriation,” Google posted a response on its public policy blog. Of course, that has nothing to do with the fact that most people think the Singleton speech was aimed at the search giant and its burgeoning power over the distribution of media, although Google was not named by him. Still, it’s always nice to make nice. Sort of. So, it was hard to resist translating this Google blog by one of its lawyers.

Yahoo Telenovela to Get the Vanity Fair Treatment

in News on April 2, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT

Misguided managers, Luddite corporate raiders, a thuggish hostile takeover from a software giant, a revolving door of employees, a dash of Internet moolah and a tough-talking lady CEO to the rescue! Also some Googzilla action thrown in for good measure. Of course, it has all the elements of a good story for Vanity Fair magazine! Actually, Yahoo has all the elements of a good Mexican telenovela, but it’s only a magazine article that is apparently in the cards to chronicle the stumbles and bumbles of the Internet giant.
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