Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'aol'

Today is Earth Day and the search industry is sporting special logos for the day. Here is a run down for the 2008 logos: Google: Yahoo (Flash version): AOL: Ask.com: Cre8asite Forums: Search Engine Roundtable (our theme, it actually glows):...

Posted on April 22, 2008 9:13 AM

The saga continues with a very unusual night for Yahoo yesterday. Let me catch everyone up with what happened yesterday. Follow the timeline, all reports are linked via Search Engine Land (times are estimates and EST): 15:00 (EST) - Confirmed:...

Posted on April 10, 2008 8:48 AM

Tamar reported a couple weeks ago that Microsoft put a bid in for Yahoo. We learned over the weekend that Yahoo would reject the offer and they would possibly partner with AOL to prevent a hostile take over by Microsoft....

Posted on February 11, 2008 7:47 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread is reporting that when searching over at AOL Search UK, and restricting pages to just "UK Only," the results you get are rarely ever from .net top-level domains. WebmasterWorld administrator, Tedster, confirmed this to be the case:...

Posted on January 15, 2008 7:59 AM

It appears that what was once an advertising deal between AOL and Quigo is now turning into a $300 investment, as Brett Tabke shares a report about this acquisition. The purchase is designed to help the Time Warner unit better...

Posted on November 5, 2007 9:01 AM

The other week we reported that Google said about A Quarter of Google Searches Are Never Seen Before. Since then, Google clarified that the 25% figure was just a ballpark figure. JohnMu (aka SoftPlus) has started a thread at Cre8asite...

Posted on July 2, 2007 7:42 AM

I typically like to wait for Danny Sullivan to do his large chart, plotting all the various metrics companies against each other. But Nielsen//NetRatings released (PDF) a report with new share figures. Here they are: In the number one slot,...

Posted on June 22, 2007 7:32 AM

Google rises in market share, MSN falls badly and Yahoo just hovers in place. There was a thread this morning on WMW about the April 2007 stats numbers just released by Nielsen/NetRatings. According to them: Microsoft saw its share of...

Posted on May 24, 2007 11:35 AM

Earlier this month AOL Messes Up by Releasing Sensitive Search Data. Well, the other day they acted on that mistake by forcing the CTO to resign and firing the researcher who released the data, as well as his manager. AOL...

Posted on August 23, 2006 7:50 AM

I wrote about it at the SEW Blog yesterday; Techmeme is reporting a huge amount of concern over AOL releasing, then pulling, search logs done by 500,000 users over three months. The purpose of the release was to help search...

Posted on August 8, 2006 10:19 AM