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Google Will Pay Mozilla Almost $300M Per Year in Search Deal, Besting Microsoft and Yahoo

Kara Swisher in News on December 22, 2011 at 10:57 am PT

The search giant will pony up close to $1 billion to hipcheck Microsoft’s Bing from the pole position on the Firefox browser.

Amazon Gets Into the Bulk Email Game

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 25, 2011 at 12:35 pm PT

Why set up a mail server to send messages to customers when you can do the same thing in the cloud?

For Ask.com, Foray Into Social Search Points to Mobile

Liz Gannes in Social on December 28, 2010 at 12:56 pm PT

As Ask re-emphasizes questions and answers, President Doug Leeds is particularly high on the company’s efforts in mobile as an ideal environment for asking questions and getting timely replies from other users.

Kayak's IPO Filing: We Don't Depend on Search Engines

Liz Gannes in Social on November 17, 2010 at 8:48 am PT

Travel search provider Kayak today filed with the SEC for an IPO worth $50 million, with no price per share specified. But it did specify a bunch of stuff about its business in its S-1.

Local Hero: Google Ups the Ante With Place Search

John Paczkowski in News on October 27, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

Search advancements at Google continue apace, with the company rolling out a steady parade of tweaks and enhancements. Last month, it was Google Instant–real-time search results as you type. This month it’s Place Search, a new way to present search results for local queries.

How Did Twitter Pass Yahoo in Search? With Robots, of Course!

Peter Kafka in Media on April 14, 2010 at 1:12 pm PT

If you’re a regular person, you probably rarely search for something on Twitter. Because search on Twitter is a lousy experience. So how is Twitter generating more queries than Yahoo?

Xerox to Google, Yahoo: If You Need Additional Copies of the Lawsuit, You Know Whom to Ask

John Paczkowski in News on February 23, 2010 at 11:33 am PT

Xerox is not a name that springs to mind when one thinks of search. It is, after all, a 100-year-old global document-management company best known for its office and production equipment. Odd, then, to hear that Xerox has accused Google and Yahoo of pilfering its intellectual property.

Search Users Evidently Just a Bunch of Megan Fox-Ogling, WWE-Patronizing Nascar Fans

John Paczkowski in Social on December 1, 2009 at 9:31 am PT

If our search engine queries are, on some level, a reflection of who we are as a people, then we are a sorry, sorry lot indeed. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo all released their lists of the top search queries for 2009 today and they reveal us to be a nation of celebrity-obsessed, swine flu-suffering, vampire-loving, Megan Fox-ogling, Lady Gaga-humming, World Wrestling Entertainment-patronizing Nascar fans.

Crikey! Eh? Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Cleared in Australia and Canada.

John Paczkowski in News on November 24, 2009 at 2:28 pm PT

They’re grinning like a shot fox up at Microsoft today now that the company’s advertising partnership with Yahoo has been cleared by antitrust regulators in Australia and Canada.