CNET announced that it is now helping consumers find tech gadgets in local, offline stores: CNET's innovative local shopping capability goes beyond today's standard local shopping services, which typically provide stock availability for a retailer, but not for a specific…
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that RH Donnelley is in talks to acquire Dex Media, an acquisition that would propel RHD into the third position in the US directories market, behind SBC and Verizon, ahead of BellSouth and…
In addition to the data jointly put out by Pew and comScore about the rise of search are data on local search and IYP usage. According to comScore, Yahoo! Local was not far behind AOL in terms of the number…
Recognizing that video search is an increasingly important product feature, Ask has a deal with multi-media search engine (already in process) GoFish.
Because I'm working too late: Russell Beattie's harsh AT&T (formerly SBC) logo analysis. AT&T Wireless was acquired by Cingular, which then rebranded the service and will now, ironically, lose its identity in favor of ... at&t. If it weren't true,…
I got a release of sorts from Google this a.m. explaining in more detail the offline/local product data that Froogle will be featuring online. As an example, here's "digital camera, San Francisco" -- just in time for Black Friday/Cyber Monday.…
As is being widely reported, BrightCove has received a $16.2 million investment from IAC, Hearst and AOL (and has a distribution deal with the latter). These guys want to do for video online what Google has done for PPClick advertising…
Here's a roundup of news: Judy's Book grabs US$8 million in series B funding from Mobius Venture Capital, with contributions from Ignition Partners and Ackerley Partners. Google 10Q facts (sliced and diced by PaidContent): "'AOL is responsible for roughly 10…
There's lots of interesting search/local search-related discussion going on at the CNET Japan Innovation conference. Search Engine Journal's Loren Baker is covering most of the sessions: Google Local and Google Base discussed Yahoo! and social search Mobile & Local search…
John Battelle has an interesting discussion regarding the impending launch of genuine video on Google, what it might mean for third parties, and how it might integrate with Google's new payments system. Google has been inviting people/organizations to submit video…
Seeking to bring more control/choice to advertiser-buyers of its AdSense program, Google has offered advertisers the ability to bid for inventory directly on particular network sites. This capability is one of the ways that competing contextual ad providers Kanoodle and…
My colleague Neal Polachek is attending Yellow Pages Today in Austria, where he heard someone talking today about how eBay is a burgeoning Yellow Pages competitor. Quite coincidentally, in today's Wall Street Journal, there's an article about eBay and Google…
Search continues to show big gains among U.S. users. According to comScore data comparing September 2004 with September 2005, the average daily use of search engines was up from 49.3 million users to 60.7 million. Separately, the Pew Internet &…
TiVo announced TiVoToGo, a service that will put TV on iPods or Sony PSP devices. Also, Skype announced a deal with U.S. electronics retailer RadioShack to sell/distribute the broadband phone service in the chain's 3,000 U.S. stores. This is a…
Judy's Book, fresh from its $8 million round, has announced that it is offering PPCall (similar to InsiderPages) as an advertising vehicle. Dubbed "JBCalls," the service uses infrastructure from ZiffLeads.
... Or is soon to be in its hometown of Mountain View, California. Next up, San Francisco?
Eurekster got into social search before everyone else but didn't really have success with consumers, who might have been confused by what the company was trying to do. Eurekster has had B2B success with publishers, however. Along those same lines,…
There are lots of people running around saying things like "Google Base squarely takes aim at Craigslist and eBay ..." That is both narrow and largely incorrect. Google Base (and the related content that becomes available on Google) may ultimately…
How do we solve the vexing problem of online advertiser and audience fragmentation? Why, the network, of course. Aside from a few big names, very few sites today have the quality and reach that advertisers want. (In many cases they…
Last week we issued an ILM White Paper about the future of TV (IPTV and video search). One of the strongest of the Internet incumbents in this category is AOL, with its broadband portal and video assets. Here's a deal…
