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2007
August
01,
2007
| 13:34 PM America/Los_Angeles
I've been saying Silicon Valley has turned into media valley for more than two years. So it is good to have some backing.Today at a fascinating VC panel, Roger McNamee, one of the top Silicon Valley investors, said Silicon Valley is doing great
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July
29,
2007
| 20:08 PM America/Los_Angeles
Microsoft's acquisition late last week of the AdECN advertising exchange is a smart move. I interviewed Bill Urschel, the founder of AdECN earlier this year.It is a company that has quietly managed to establish itself as a major real-time exchange
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May
21,
2007
| 10:34 AM America/Los_Angeles
...and the rapid fall of the East Coast Media Advertising agencies have become the prime target of the Internet giants in their most recent M&A activities. It is all part of the roll-up in the industry, as Sramana Mitra describes it well.
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May
16,
2007
| 02:00 AM America/Los_Angeles
Notes from Search]ology:I'm at Google's Search]ology event for media, at the Googleplex, for presentations showing that search is still very important to the company. Last week Google announced its new tag line: Search, Ads and Apps and so it wants
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March
03,
2007
| 06:58 AM America/Los_Angeles
Search engines say they use complex algorithms to help users find exactly what they want. Google's "I'm feeling lucky" button (btw, does anybody use it?), right below the search box implies that very thing. The legions of top Ph.Ds working for the
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February
28,
2007
| 16:34 PM America/Los_Angeles
And by Richard Koman for Silicon Valley Watcher. Yesterday my colleague Richard Koman wrote that a federal judge ruled that Google, Yahoo, Time Warner and Microsoft could refuse advertising.  Search engines are constitutionally
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February
28,
2007
| 02:26 AM America/Los_Angeles
A federal judge has dismissed a case against Google that challenged the search engine's right to refuse advertising. In his ruling (PDF), the judge handed Google, Yahoo and Microsoft a big fat juicy win, saying that search engines can refuse
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February
10,
2007
| 10:03 AM America/Los_Angeles
The San Francisco WiFi deal with Google and Earthlink has run into more problems: (Hat tip Kimo Crossman)   http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/aclu-puts-heat-on-earthlink-and-google-in-san-fran/2007-02-08 ACLU puts heat on Earthlink and
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February
10,
2007
| 09:45 AM America/Los_Angeles
FAST Search and Transfer has suddenly popped into my sphere of attention and I mean really popped. I got to spend some time at FAST's user conference at the end of last week, and it was an educational experience that got me interested in search
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February
08,
2007
| 07:21 AM America/Los_Angeles
Susan Feldman, a senior analyst at IDC, will release on Friday the results of a groundbreaking study that shoots down one of the largest myths in search engine marketing: that the majority of traffic to web sites comes from the top ten search
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February
04,
2007
| 17:41 PM America/Los_Angeles
FAST Search and Transfer, the European based search giant, today announced software that allows online publishers to serve contextual ads to their readers. The FAST AdMomentum software could increase ad revenues by more than 200 per cent for some
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