4 posts and columns on O&O

Yahoo's (and Associated Content Founder) Luke Beatty Talks About Google's Content Farm Putsch

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.

Yahoo 3Q Earnings Slides: The Good, the Bad and the Revenue Ugly

in News on October 19, 2010 at 1:54 pm PT

BoomTown will begin livebombing, oops, liveblogging the Yahoo third-quarter conference call with Yahoo execs and Wall Street analysts in five minutes. Until then, please peruse the slides the Silicon Valley Internet giant has provided.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt: “I Have a Special Spot for Apple in My Heart”

in Media on January 21, 2010 at 1:46 pm PT

Eric Schmidt’s tender feelings for Apple won’t stop Google from competing directly with Apple’s iPhone: The company spent much of the time on its Q4 earnings call discussing its large mobile ambitions–without talking about specifics, of course. Meanwhile, the search giant posted a big jump in quarterly revenue. But not enough for twitchy investors, who are pushing shares down in after-hours trading.
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Microsoft’s Bing Problem: Google Is Just Fine

in Media on July 14, 2009 at 4:33 am PT

JP Morgan has good news for Microsoft: Its massive ad campaign for Bing is working just fine. The bad news for Microsoft: For most people, Google is already working just fine.
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