Nielsen Online released its U.S. search share rankings for August this morning. Depending on your point of view, the failure of the Microsoft bid for Yahoo may have been a blessing, at least in the short term. Yahoo Search handled 1.3 billion queries in August, down 16.5 percent year over year, and representing 18.1 percent of all search requests in August.
And Microsoft? Even worse, Read the rest of this entry »
Why is it so difficult for Microsoft to compete with Google? Steve Ballmer tried to explain at the software giant’s annual analyst day up in Redmond on Thursday. (Thanks to our colleague Elise Ackerman, who covers Google and Yahoo for the Mercury News, for providing this to Docu-Drama.) Read the rest of this entry »
Yandex, the Russion search engine and one of the largest Russian Web portals, will open a U.S. technology and business facility in Palo Alto to be called Yandex Labs, according to a release Friday. Former Yahoo Vishal Makhijani, who headed Yahoo’s search group, will become president and chief executive of the new organization, reporting directly to Arkady Volozh, CEO of Yandex.
Yandex’s name is derived from a bilingual pun on the word “index,” according to its Wikipedia entry, with the backward R character in Russian corresponding to the English “I”.
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