Following the resignation of ex-CEO David Hills, is CTO, Michael Grubb who also announced his leaving the company. This is the second blow that LookSmart has to face within a couple of months. Michael Grubb's resignation will be effective from September 7, 2007. The statement from the SEC 8-K filing points:
Search Engines
Fast Search & Transfer lets go of 148 employees informs Pandia. SInce 2006, the company has hired over 400 employees and the cuts will occur in all offices around the world.
Pandia cites the reason for letting go 148 employees as, "The trouble started in the fall of 2006, when financial director Joesph Larson discovered unexpected losses of NOK 65 millions (USD 11 mill). Unfortunately that was not the end of the story. CEO John Markus Lervik now admits that the company has been too much technology- and sales-driven."
CNet news sent Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Ask.com and AOL a survey on privacy issues.
Each one was asked the same questions the format of which were:
- What search-related data–including IP addresses, cookie IDs, user identities, and search terms–do you retain?
- How long do you retain those data?mit
Queries and questions can never end. Its in the nature of human beings to have a desire to know more and more about their surroundings or anything that might be useful. If you have a new question and you are looking for its answer, then there is one more site for you to look for your queries. Find answers to many of your unanswered questions at QueryCAT. This new site has a database that has more than four million questions and answers.
The much awaited, Spock.com, a people search engine has finally been unveiled in beta.
“Spock is the online leader in personal search, helping users find and discover people. With over one hundred million people already indexed and millions added every day, Spock is building the broadest and deepest people specific search engine.â€
Simple and easy, you cansearch for people in Spock by name, e-mail address, tags, location, age range, gender, and picture.
Gigablast.com has crossed 12 billion indexed pages and so it proudly announces in its homepage.
Currently, as I type there are 12,643,913,856 indexed pages. It would be interesting to do a random check next month or two months later.
As everyone in the US rejoiced the 4th of July, the creative juices behind search engines were busy at work creating appropriate homepage designs. Here's a sampling of the most popular and the best:
Yahoo
Ask.com
Google
Care2. Net
Dogpile
Enjoy the spirit of 4th of July!
SenseBot is the latest search engine to hit the World wide web. However, this indeed is a smart move, like its claim "The Search Engine that finds sense in the heap of Web pages ."
Threadwatch the boldest and off-the-cuff, yet always informative and fair SEO news site will be shutting down this Friday announces owner, Aaron Wall.
Citing reasons for shutting down as:
- Threadwatch's edgy news spurned a whole breed of similar sites. These sites gained popularity and made Threadwatch seem like a farce.
Last month, it was news about Google Inc put under the FTC scanner, when news broke that the Federal Trade commission “opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google’s planned $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick.â€
In the middle of May, news broke of Yahoo! acquired RightMedia and Microsoft soon followed with their purchase of Aquantive For $649 Million! just a few weeks later.
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