By Bill Slawski, on March 8, 2006
Microsoft officially launches Windows Live Search (now Bing), later today.
Of course, the site at the URL (live.com) where it will be located has been available in beta for a while, but the Seattle Post Intelligencer mentions some new features and a new design in Microsoft to release overhauled Internet search engine I guess we’ll have to wait to see exactly what comes with this “launch.”
Microsoft has purchased web application maker Onfolio, Inc., and will be bringing Onfolio founder JJ Allaire aboard. Parts of Onfolio’s web tool are being incorporated into Microsoft’s toolbar.
Allaire is also the creator of Cold Fusion. His joining Microsoft is interesting in light of his past experiences, and his knowledge of this type of search engine helper software (a term to describe tools like Onfolio, which appears to have been coined in an Always On article published a week after the launch of Onfolio almost two years ago).
Continue reading Microsoft launches new search, buys Onfolio
By Bill Slawski, on January 16, 2006
This is the third post in a series about the companies that Yahoo! has purchased.
I started with a look at the most recent with Yahoo! Acquisitions since Overture. Sometime after I made that post, we discovered that Yahoo! had also acquired a company named Webjay during 2005.
My second post looked at Early Yahoo! Acquisitions (the 1990s). While looking for those, I was amazed by the very large number of companies that Yahoo! partnered with for one reason or another.
This post includes some of Yahoo!’s acquisitions which probably have had the biggest impact on the search results and the advertisements that Yahoo! serves.
Continue reading Yahoo Acquisitions – The Middle Years
By Bill Slawski, on January 3, 2006
I wanted to learn more about the history of Yahoo!, and made a post about Yahoo!’s Acquisitions Since Overture a week ago. I promised that I would followup with an additional post covering the remaining purchases.
I guess you should be careful about undertaking an inquiry like this.
The more I uncover, the more I find to write about.
Yahoo!’s earliest days saw them entering into partnerships and joint ventures with a number of companies.
At some point, Yahoo! started buying some of the companies that it worked with instead of working with those companies. There are a number of different reasons why, and some interesting stories behind some of those.
Continue reading Early Yahoo! Acquisitions (the 1990s)
By Bill Slawski, on December 27, 2005
Yahoo! has a history of looking for, and acquiring companies and their technology and hiring employees from those businesses. I focused upon the most recent companies with this post, and will followup sometime in the near future with the rest that I can uncover. Here are a number of the Yahoo! acqusitions since October 2003:
3721 Network Software Co.
3721 Network Software Co. (November 2003) 3721 NSC is a Hong Kong based language keyword search engines and real name address system. This company owned the Chinese company, Beijing 3721 Technology Co. Ltd (aka 3721). There’s a nice illustration on the Beijing page on how their real names translation (Chinese keywords are typed in the browser address bar instead of a URL) from English to Chinese works.
I’m not certain if the Beijing branch was sold to Yahoo! in the purchase. I’ve seen a couple of conflicting reports on that part of the acquisition.
Kelkoo
Continue reading Yahoo! Acquisitions since Overture
By Bill Slawski, on December 20, 2005
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