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Get Ready for a Liveblog of the Yahoo Search "Chalk Talk": No Word Yet on Erasing Google's Market Share

Kara Swisher in News on May 19, 2009 at 10:33 am PT

Later today, as BoomTown reported last week, Yahoo is putting on a search party. Well, not a “party” party–although there will apparently be some lunch noshing at the “Search chalk talk,” during which top techies at the Internet giant will talk up the strategy for its more innovative products. At its HQ in Silicon Valley last week, Google put on a similar show-off about its latest search innovations, as both it and Yahoo brace for the launch a major overhaul of the search offering of Microsoft, which is expected soon. I’ll be liveblogging the Yahoo event, which begins at 11:30 a.m. PDT.

This Week, Google Talked Search; Next Week, Yahoo Does–a.k.a. Kumo-FUD

Kara Swisher in News on May 14, 2009 at 3:47 pm PT

Suddenly, search! Earlier this week, Google put on a show called “Searchology” about its latest search innovations at its Mountain View HQ. And next Tuesday, Yahoo will trot out its search extravaganza, called “Search chalk talk,” during which top search techies will talk up its more innovative products, such as Build Your Own Search (BOSS) and Search Monkey. Could all this search blabbing have anything to do with a certain upcoming launch of a new search offering by a very rich and even more determined giant tech company? As in: Microsoft and whatever it ends up calling its redone search product, code-named Kumo.