Archive for September, 2008

Why the Google-Yahoo ad deal is nothing to fear (International Herald Tribune)

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Google does not set the prices of the search advertising market; its advertisers do. With auction pricing, even a major player can’t control the market.

[Full Article]


Let Google and Yahoo get along (Los Angeles Times)

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

By standing in the way of the proposed Internet search deal between Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc., the federal government, newspaper groups and national advertisers may very well prevent what they say they want — more browser competition. (” EC is scrutinizing Yahoo-Google deal ,” Sept. 16.)

[Full Article]


Methods behind AP-Yahoo News poll on racial views (AP via Yahoo! News)

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

This AP-Yahoo News poll was designed to dig into one of the most sensitive subjects in American politics: racial attitudes and their effect on how people will vote in an election in which Democrat Barack Obama could become the first black president.

[Full Article]


How AP-Yahoo News poll on race was designed (AP via Yahoo! News)

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

This AP-Yahoo News poll was designed to dig into one of the most sensitive subjects in American politics: racial attitudes and their effect on how people will vote in an election in which Democrat Barack Obama could become the first black president.

[Full Article]


Report: New Yahoo board to meet next week (CNET via Yahoo! News)

Friday, September 19th, 2008

The new Yahoo board–which now includes Carl Icahn and two new directors he backed–plans to meet next week, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

[Full Article]


Google ramps up defense of Yahoo ad search deal (CNET via Yahoo! News)

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Google came out swinging this week in defense of its controversial search advertising agreement with Yahoo.

[Full Article]


Yahoo starts front page overhaul (BBC News)

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Randomly picked visitors to Yahoo’s homepage are to help it redesign its main page.

[Full Article]


How the AP-Yahoo News Poll was conducted (AP via Yahoo! News)

Friday, September 19th, 2008

The AP-Yahoo News Poll is a unique study that will track the moods and opinions of a group of people throughout the presidential election campaign. The seventh wave of this study included re-interviews of 1,740 people between Sept. 5-15 who were originally interviewed in November or early December. The extensive national survey was conducted by Knowledge Networks of Menlo Park, Calif., under …

[Full Article]


Google Phone In Sight (Forbes)

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Google’s engineers have prototypes. Here is what we saw.

[Full Article]


Yahoo begins radical home page overhaul (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Yahoo Inc is moving ahead on Thursday with a radical redesign of its home page — the most heavily trafficked site on the Web — making changes that give users a personalized view of the wider Web.

[Full Article]