Yahoo has hired itself a hot new CEO, the former PayPal president Scott Thompson. At a critical point in the company's history, some fast, decisive and powerful things must be done immediately as he takes up the post.READ»
"If every user that comes [to Bing or Google] is getting a personalized experience based on Facebook data, based on the web graph, based on the social graph--holy crap, that's a lot of processes to do," says Mark Johnson. "I think the economics just aren't there."READ»
In an era when it's competing strongly with Apple and Microsoft, and nobody knows quite how much Android is bringing to the bottom line, what will Google reveal--and what do we wish they'd reveal--on tomorrow's quarterly earnings call? READ»
Name a digital service you want, and chances are there's an app for that. If only you could find it. Quixey, a specialized search engine, wants to help.READ»
Just 5 or 6 years ago, there were advertisements that littered the internet for businesses to "get listed on thousands of search engines." The statement seems ridiculous now as there are only (arguably) three that mean anything. Are we seeing the same type of consolidation happening now in social media?READ»
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If you use Twitter at all, you've probably seen plenty of people lobbing questions to their followers-- when they could have easily just ...READ»
Slim Shady sets a new digital sales record with "Recovery." Google's missing Realtime search. This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.READ»
We're all told to jazz up our passwords with non-alphanumeric characters, but by jamming a "+" in Google+, Google has opened a big can of marketing worms.READ»
Google unveiled plans to make Net searches lighting quick with Instant Pages. This is possible only because Google's "very confident that we know what search results you want." Sure, you'll shave five seconds or so off all your searches--but it's not without some complexities. READ»
Google just revealed it's supporting authorship markup HTML tags. This may sound like a small tweak, but it's great stuff if you're a writer who wants to track your work online--and it may even help protect an article's IP. READ»
As Microsoft's Bing increasingly focuses on enabling search to "help you complete tasks," rather than simply "find stuff," Skype could become an important part of the user experience.READ»
Google exec Marissa Mayer talked at a conference Wednesday about how the company has changed--and hasn't--under recently installed CEO Larry Page. READ»
China may be wising up to international condemnation of its lax copyright protection standards, as the Ministry of Culture has revealed it will "punish" local search giant Baidu for facilitating illegal music downloads.READ»
