It is amazing how things have changed over the years. Google and M$ use to be friends, now they are at war with Y! picking sides.
"Tech giants' lobbying effort at a crucial turning point: Allied Microsoft-Google group sets key test in bid for free U.S. Internet access" Here: http://bit.ly/bVfdo On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Greg Nolan<[email protected]> wrote: > Chris, > > The Panama ad platform changed the way Yahoo! charged customers for > ads, how ads appeared in their search engine (and other places), how > ads were ranked/displayed, and improved how expected relevance of an > ad based on factors such as its historical click-through rate. The > Panama ad platform needs a search engine (any search engine). If MS > decided, they could use Yahoo!'s ad platform with their own search > engine. > > -g > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Chris Thomas<[email protected]> wrote: >> It seems like very time the business press talks about Google's, Yahoo's or >> Microsoft's search engine, they mention the respective ad platform as well >> in the same breath. This confuses me as I thought those are two separate >> things. Does Yahoo's ad platform, "Panama" have to have the search engine to >> work? Or can it work without it? >> >> Chris >> ________________________________ >> From: Greg Nolan <[email protected]> >> To: SoCal LUG Users List <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 9:31:07 AM >> Subject: Re: [LinuxUsers] MSFT - YHOO Deal Worries Some >> >> I'm curious about whose ad platform they are going to use. I worked >> hard to help roll out project 'Panama' and shudder to think it may be >> taken down. FWIW, there was a massive exodus of talent from Y! in q1 >> of 2008 and since then the company has not moved forward (multiple >> rounds of layoffs and constantly sagging stock). For Y! to stay >> competitive, they HAD to partner with MS. I hope my buddies from >> GoTo/Overture/Y!SM (Yahoo! search marketing) land softly. >> >> From Y!: >> >> "Some search Yahoos will have an opportunity to move over to >> Microsoft. Others will remain with us working on the search experience >> and other opportunities, and some, unfortunately, may not. I’m not >> going to beat around the bush about this; there will be layoffs >> related to this decision. I know this is unsettling, and I am very >> sorry about that." >> >> Sucks. >> >> -g >> >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Chris Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Looks like Microsoft and Yahoo finally strike a deal. Even though it is >>> not a merger, it is still a big deal. Yahoo is going to use Microsofts >>> search technology (Bing?). Yahoo used Hadoop to take the webpages they >>> crawled and indexed them. >>> >>> http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/hadoop/2008/02/yahoo-worlds-largest-production-hadoop.html >>> >>> Yahoo was one of the biggest contributors to the project. What will their >>> role be now? Because of the search deal Rasmus, the creator of the PHP >>> language, might be leaving Yahoo, one of the biggest PHP shops. >>> http://twitter.com/rasmus/status/2908526145 >>> >>> There are also the concenrs about less competiton in the search market. >>> The MSFT - YHOO still needs to be approved by the Federal Trade Commission. >>> >>> What do you guys think about the deal? >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> LinuxUsers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> >> > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose
