Reprise Media, an award-wining search engine and social media marketing agency, announced today that Steven G. Bustin has joined the company as VP, General Manager. Bustin has been tapped to guide the rapid growth of the agency’s San Francisco office and to oversee the expanding staff and client roster there. (PRWeb Nov 20, 2008)

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Yahoo Inc.'s search engine has begun running on T-Mobile USA Inc.'s new wireless platform effective immediately, the companies said Thursday. T-Mobile, the fourth-largest cellular carrier in the U.S., is offering the wireless version of Yahoo, called oneSearch, through its new Web2go service.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=ZGgZN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=ZGgZN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=vsG0n"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=vsG0n" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=tFlGn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=tFlGn" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ibtimes/tech/~4/459775020" height="1" width="1"/

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=48f861b614b9b9af00df0f4cmaxX=400maxY=300" border="0" alt="soupline2.jpg" title="soupline2.jpg" width="400" height="300" /If you weren't shocked by the a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/ecommerce-grinds-to-a-halt"1% growth of US retail eCommerce in October/a, you should have been. The industry was growing 15% six months ago, and it has now smashed into a wall./p pIt's hard to believe November and December will be better, and, in fact, they will probably be worse. Which means emeCommerce could actually shrink year-over-year in Q4/em./p pThe a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/technology/internet/20slashing.html?hp"NYT compiles some frightening anecdotes/a:/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"At Lori's Designer Shoes... Lori Andre, the owner, said she generally tried to avoid online promotions 'because then you train the customer and they'll expect that, and you're not going to make any money.' strongBut last week, traffic hit a wall and sales on the site fell by nearly a quarter. 'We've been in business for 25 years, and never seen the bottom drop out like this,' she said.. /strong/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"strongSales of music, movies, books, computer software, flowers and gifts have been hit the hardest, with double-digit declines, comScore said.../strong/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Plasticland, now an online boutique selling clothes, home d cor and jewelry, started in 2002 as a single store in San Diego. The owners, lured by the global audience of the Web, moved it online in 2005. They were caught off guard this spring, when sales started to plummet.../p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Free shipping is becoming a painful imperative for all e-commerce sites. Three-quarters of online shoppers said in a comScore survey that they would shop elsewhere if a site did not offer free shipping, and nearly all sites offered it for at least some purchases./p pSome companies are trying to sidestep the discount-now-and-screw-yourself-forever trap and are unloading their unsold inventory on captive discount sites:/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Zappos.com, a shoe retailer based in Henderson, Nev., never runs promotions on its site. Instead, it quietly moves shoes that do not sell in six months to a href="http://6pm.com/" target="_"6pm.com/a, a clearance site it acquired last year, but runs separately. This month, the company is buying more search ads for 6pm.com, where a pair of colorful slip-on Keds sneakers is on sale for $12.73 - 74 percent off the original price on a href="http://zappos.com/" target="_"Zappos.com/a. Even when these extreme discounts mean selling shoes for less than Zappos.com paid for them, it is better to recoup some cash than none, said Tony Hsieh, the company's chief executive./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"The discounting is not just drastic, but is also occurring unusually early in the season. Kmart, a division of a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/sears_holdings_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Sears Holdings"Sears Holding/a, initiated Black Friday prices on electronics - 40 to 50 percent off - on Nov. 2, nearly four weeks before the real Black Friday, the busy shopping day just after Thanksgiving that usually marks the beginning of the holiday buying season./p pThe bottom line: Lots of companies are toast:/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"E-commerce experts said they expected the cutthroat price competition to be fatal to some struggling retailers. 'Folks that have been on the ropes or near the ropes during the good times are going to go under. There is no question about it,' said George Michie, co-founder of the Rimm-Kaufman Group, a search marketing company../p pExcept for Google:/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"[A] major expense for online retailers seems to be rising: the cost to advertise products on the search engine Google, the source of considerable traffic and visibility for most e-commerce sites./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Over the last year and a half, prices for text ads related to women's fashion have quadrupled, say apparel retailers. In the popular gifts category, the price to advertise alongside results for common search queries like 'gift baskets' jumped 50 percent from the 2006 holidays to 2007 and is expected to climb again this year./p pstrongSee Also:a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/ecommerce-grinds-to-a-halt" /a/stronga href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/ecommerce-grinds-to-a-halt"eCommerce Screeches To A Halt/a/p p /p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/j4aMja2npzxd1RzyUdjGPnd7gj8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/j4aMja2npzxd1RzyUdjGPnd7gj8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=LsmhtPKY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=LsmhtPKY" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=18d855cs"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=LF3CbZGC"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=zRiPOdQ9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=zRiPOdQ9" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=B2Gk8F72"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Nb2QIykw"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=R2FmwG7r"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=wIYcNehn"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/F9BZq-PbTnc" height="1" width="1"/

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=481f103a14b9b96b00f63cc5maxX=302maxY=220" border="0" alt="t-mobile-store.jpg" title="t-mobile-store.jpg" width="302" height="220" /T-Mobile is a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122714408318243085.html"launching/a a new mobile portal powered by Yahoo (YHOO). The companies will share ad revenue, but aren't disclosing the length of the deal or whether Yahoo will offer the carrier guaranteed revenue./p pHere's a backhanded compliment: a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122714408318243085.html"T-Mobile told the WSJ/a that Yahoo is specifically best suited for its lower-end phones. If you recall, Google (GOOG) partnered with T-Mobile to a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/gphone-iphone-browser-battle-google-android-g1-faster-iphone-better"launch its first phone, the geeky G1/a, last month./p pThis is a fine deal for Yahoo, but it makes the assumption that people will use the search engine they're forced upon, versus choosing the one they like the best./p pLong term, we're not so sure about that. Right now, the user interface is terrible enough on most mobile Web browsers that we can see why people would use the search tool they're handed. But as phones keep getting better, we think people are smart enough to navigate to the search engine they prefer -- likely Google -- versus the one they're handed./p pSo far, this is mostly a theoretical market: Only about 7.7% of U.S. mobile subscribers use search on their phones, according to comScore M:Metrics. And as on the Web, Google is whipping its competition: 60% of mobile users use Google, compared with 36% for Yahoo. But we're not sure how many of those searches were done on default search tools versus search engines people picked themselves./p pT-Mobile can use any boost it can get to attract more of its subscribers to the mobile Web. It lags its competitors by a long shot getting customers to pay for mobile data services, such as mobile Web access and text messaging. Last quarter, T-Mobile subscribers spent an average $8.90 per month on data service, compared to the $12-16 its larger rivals' customers spent monthly at ATT (T), Verizon (VZ), and Sprint (S). One excuse: T-Mobile has lagged its rivals rolling out its fast, 3G network. Once that expands, it should attract more mobile Web traffic./p pVerizon is close to signing a bigger deal with Microsoft (MSFT), which would bring in $550 million to $650 million in guaranteed revenue a year./p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="../../2008/11/microsoft-close-to-blowing-another-1-billion-on-verizon-search-and-mobile-deal"Microsoft Close To Blowing Another $1 Billion On Verizon Search And Mobile Deal/abr /a href="../../2008/11/microsoft-tries-to-steal-google-s-verizon-mobile-search-deal"Microsoft Tries To Steal Google's Verizon Mobile Search Deal/abr /a href="../../2008/11/steve-ballmer-pretends-not-to-understand-google-android-pricing-strategy"Steve Ballmer Pretends Not To Understand Google Android Pricing Strategy/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/l_3LqSQVytNu1U_OD_xP-RhMeDs/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/l_3LqSQVytNu1U_OD_xP-RhMeDs/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=A6dKJujL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=A6dKJujL" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=4PyosTdS"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=CqyrYdfU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=g5DI3xtT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=g5DI3xtT" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=camgHkCg"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=BO8A10vU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=TMahXPCd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=Psdu6tYa"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/89Ob9b1Pf_Q" height="1" width="1"/

ric482 writes With the release of the Mozilla Foundations 2007 financial report, questions have been raised by the IRS who are due to perform an audit on the non-profit organization behind the massively popular Firefox browser. Last year the Foundation received $66 million of its total $75 million revenue (88 percent) from search engine maestros Google, so the IRS are looking for blood over the organizations tax exempt status. Back in 2006, Mozilla got $59.5 million from Google mdash; around 85 percent of the organizations revenue. Google and Mozilla are part of a you scratch my back, Ill pay your bills sort of agreement with the Google search bar firmly placed in the toolbar, and on the default homepage. Things were a bit rocky a couple of months back when Google unveiled the Beta-run of its Chrome browser, but Mozilla and Google hugged it out and sealed a deal that will last for a further three years. That deal will expire in November 2011.pa href=http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/20/1327240amp;from=rssimg src=http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/20/1327240 //a/ppa href=http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/20/1327240amp;from=rssRead more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/KR6fkM702vPgLLYLqk1cqNcUWEg/aimg src=http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/KR6fkM702vPgLLYLqk1cqNcUWEg/i border=0 ismap=true //a/pimg src=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/czLxSy6q-8M height=1 width=1 /

In a surprising move, T-Mobile has chosen Yahoo’s OneSearch search engine on its phones according to a Yahoo executive. Considering the relationship between Google and T-Mobile with the launch of the G1 - the first ever Android phone - you would expect Google to have somewhat of an inside track on the deal.
But as they say, business is business and Yahoo must have simply put a better offer on the table… right? Afterall, this deal will likely transcend MANY phones. Although no official statement has been given, you can assume the Yahoo search won’t become the G1 default search but nothing is guaranteed.
This would be a HUGE win for Yahoo. While Yahoo has deals with 26 mobile operators around the world which have 850 million subscribers, the companies real and perceived value has done nothing but plummet lately starting with a botched Microsoft takeover and hopefully for them, ending with the resignation of CEO Jerry Yang after the stock price dropped from $30+ to just over $9 in the span of a few months. Microsoft offered to buy the company for $30+ per share, a move that Yang and company rejected in a bluff gone bad.
While Google is (according to most) the dominantly better search engine, that doesn’t matter so much on mobile phones. Consumers are much less likely to download and use applications and extras on their mobile phones and are MUCH more likely to go with the default capabilities. Its the same reason Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has dominated the Browser Wars for so long… and that same initial real estate stakes era is occurring in the mobile world as we speak.
It looks as if Yahoo won this battle, but who will win the war? Remember that Microsoft is also in the process of stealing Verizon’s default search from underneath Google’s feet which would take 2 US based carriers off the table and leaving AT&T and Sprint.
Microsoft has Windows Mobile and Google has Android, giving these two giants anchors in what appears to be a period of turbulent growth. Economists are suggesting that a number of carriers and/or manufacturers will either be purchased, merge or close shop in the next 12 months and a large number of interesting scenarios could present themselves.
What would be the most interesting scenario? If you ask me, it would be Apple buying Yahoo… and at $10 a share, it seems to be a pretty good bargain.
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The latest branch of Nokia Music Store has gone live in Italy, if you head over to music.nokia.it you'll find instructions in Italian on how to use the service. Interestingly in this globalised age the press release for the launch emphasises the need for local music, giving a statistic that 54% of music bought in Italy is Italian. Full text of the release is below.
New Nokia Music Store is committed to local content - which represents more than 54% of the music sold in Italy

Milan, Italy/Espoo, Finland - Today Nokia has announced the launch in Italy of its new digital music site, Nokia Music Store, which already has a catalogue of more than 4 million songs amongst which can be found top selling records, including records from Universal Music Group, SONY BMG ENTERTAINMENT, Warner Music Group and EMI Group, independent record labels, and new national talent. With the launch of the store http://music.nokia.it, Italian consumers can enjoy music of all types on their mobile device or PC whenever they want and however they want, using a combination of downloads and streaming services.

Nokia Music Store focuses on the local market, strongly associated with the consumer, as more than *54% of the music that is sold in Italy is local. To achieve this, there is a team in each country to determine more closely the tastes of the relevant region. Its search engine enables the differentiation between genres such as Italian music, pop, hip hop and rock.

Nokia has reached agreements with important and relevant record labels, with global and local aggregators such as The Orchard, IODA, Kiver, Made In eTaly, Wondermark and with local record labels such as Sugar, Carosello, Universo, Edel, with the objective of offering a broad range of genres and artists.

"With the launch of the Nokia Music Store in Italy, Nokia aims to make available to all Italian users the music that they want at any moment they want, with all the facilities that mobility permits nowadays," said Andrea Montagnini, Nokia Music Manager, Nokia Italy.

You can access Nokia Music Store via your PC at http://music.nokia.it, as well as via the Nokia Music Store icon on your mobile device such as the Nokia N85, Nokia N78, Nokia N95 8GB or Nokia N95, Nokia N96, as well as a growing range of Nokia devices.

How to buy the music
From the palm of their hand, music lovers will be able to access a whole new world of possibilities and recommendations, or look for favourite singers. Browsing, downloading, playing and synchronising with the compatible PC or directly from the compatible mobile device will now be possible with a simple click. The Nokia Music Store also offers on-demand music streaming service. For a monthly fee consumers can listen to as much music as they want on their PCs. It also has a pre-listening application of 30 seconds which allows the user to sample and identify each track. Furthermore, the consumer will be able to select any songs they are interested in directly from their mobile device, to make their purchase at that very moment or later on.

Tracks cost 1.00 EUR each (incl. VAT), whilst whole albums are generally 10 EUR (incl. VAT). The streaming service, based on monthly subscription and which enables the user to listen to any music desired without limit, costs 10 EUR. All songs and albums can be paid for by credit card.

How to manage the music
The Nokia Music for PC application allows consumers to seamlessly move music from their PCs to their Nokia device. People can quickly create their music library, make playlists, buy songs through Nokia Music Store, and then easily transfer the content to their Nokia device.

"We are aiming to satisfy the needs of users with a simple service that is easily accessible, offering the most comprehensive catalogue of artists, thought of by and for Italian music enthusiasts," added Montagnini.

Anyone registering at the store will receive all the latest happenings in the sector with updates and weekly newsletters. To access Nokia Music Store visit http://www.music.nokia.it.

Nokia Music Store went live in the UK on 1st of November 2007 and is now live in 11 markets including, the United Kingdom, Germany, Finland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia, France, Singapore, Spain and Sweden.

* Source October 2008 Discopress Classifiche.


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Let Me Google That For You is a tutorial search engine for those whose assistance is constantly needed by the technologically impaired or those clueless friends you have who are just too lazy to...

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I enjoyed Rex’s post about anthropology as connoisseurship, and have been thinking about it a lot. Then today, during the Remixing Anthropology session, Eric Kansa talked about how centralized search services, like Google, are eroding the power and authority of traditional information service providers. He used the tourism industry as an example, highlighting how efforts to control the staging of local culture are undermined by web 2.0 technologies, but I also saw this as a threat to the role of the anthropologist as connoisseur.

Anthropologists traditionally deployed their authority as connoisseurs to shape and contextualize the context within which “we” learned about and encountered “other” cultures. Hell, we even had a role defining how people learned about and encountered anthropological knowledge. But now that carefully cultivated connoisseurship is becoming less and less important as Google algorithms and Web 2.0 recommendation engines become the primary gateways. Sure, to the extent that anthropologists are indexed in Google their authority is still important, but the first hit for a topic might be a corporate site who understand better how to game the system with search engine optimization (SEO).

Of course, it might not be a bad thing if a website run by an indigenous community can outrank anthropologists on google. There is something democratizing about the shift, which allows the producers of culture to outrank the connoisseurs. But, as Eric pointed out, there is something disturbing about the fact that these algorithms are a black box whose rules are determined by a corporate monopoly. How’s wikia search coming along?

div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"T-Mobile USA will provide Yahoo#39;s OneSearch search engine on its phones, a Yahoo executive said Wednesday./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"T-Mobile is placing a OneSearch button on its phones in a deal that is to be announced soon, said Marco Boerries, executive vice president and head of Yahoo#39;s Connected Life Division, at the Open Mobile Summit conference in San Francisco. The carrier#39;s decision to place a OneSearch button in the software of its subscribers#39; handsets is a much-needed win for Yahoo as it struggles against Google and Microsoft for search advertising dollars and looks for a successor to#160;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/17/Yahoos_Yang_to_step_down_as_CEO_1.html"outgoing CEO Jerry Yang/a./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Get the latest on mobile developments with InfoWorld#39;s a href="http://www.infoworld.com/newsletter/subscribe.html?source=fssr"Mobile Report newsletter/a. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Yahoo#39;s latest partner has a close relationship with Google in at least one area. Last month,#160;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/22/TMobiles_Androidbased_G1_goes_on_sale_1.html"T-Mobile USA became the first mobile operator to offer a phone based on Google#39;s Android software platform when it put HTC#39;s G1 handset on sale/a. T-Mobile could not immediately be reached for comment, and Yahoo#39;s Boerries didn#39;t say specifically whether the OneSearch button would appear on the G1./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Yahoo let Google take away most of its market share in PC search and is working with carriers to make sure the same thing doesn#39;t happen in mobile, Boerries said. So the company is working through mobile operators to get OneSearch set up on their phones in hopes that subscribers will go straight to Yahoo#39;s search engine rather than calling up a competitor#39;s, he said. Yahoo has deals with 26 mobile operators around the world, which have 850 million subscribers, he said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"OneSearch is available by download to users of many phones. However, since mobile users traditionally don#39;t download applications to their phones often, Yahoo can reach more users by preloading the button on their phones./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"In March, T-Mobile in Northern and Central Europe dropped Google search for Yahoo, and the U.K. carrier O2 also is a partner, Boerries said. Those deals have helped Yahoo gain a market share of 25 percent in Europe and more than 30 percent in the U.K., he said. The company had quot;lost all footprint on searchquot; on PCs in Europe, he said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"OneSearch is designed to return useful answers, instead of just a series of links, for easier use on mobile devices, and earlier this year was opened up to allow content from third parties such as reviews site Yelp. Voice search, which just this week became available from Google as an iPhone application, already was available for OneSearch, Boerries said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"In 2009, Yahoo will concentrate on making it easier for advertisers to set up effective mobile advertising, Boerries said. For example, it#39;s hard to make ads look good on a wide variety of mobile devices, and Yahoo wants to help solve that problem, he said. The company is exploring how to give advertisers the tools they need to create the right ad experience for consumers and to reach as many people as they want without having to make deals with many operators, he said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Mobile search advertising has to be built from the ground up, and not all Web search advertisers will want to make the leap, Boerries said./p/divbr style=clear: both;/ img alt= style=border: 0; height:1px; width:1px; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=3340feadeccd86fe65f663796e498d2e height=1 width=1/ img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=3340feadeccd86fe65f663796e498d2e style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/11/pipl.png" width="305" height="188" /a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/search-techniques/find-people-with-pipl-289655.php"Previously mentioned/a people search engine Pipl has updated with a slightly tweaked look and better, more organized results. In a quick comparison between a href="http://lifehacker.com/5077685/thoroughly-invade-someones-privacy-with-123people"recently featured 123people/a and Pipl, the results at Pipl thoroughly outdid 123people on accuracy when I searched for myself, including much more accurate results for real email addresses belonging to me. Just enter anyone's name and the city where they live and let Pipl dig up their online profiles, email addresses, photos, and more. With the abundance of a href="http://lifehacker.com/tag/people-search/"people search tools/a available on the internet, it's easier than ever to a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/feature/how-to-track-down-anyone-online-329033.php"track down anyone online/a. If you've already got a favorite place to stalk, let's hear about it in the comments. div class="related"a href="http://pipl.com/"Pipl/a/div/p br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=bdc5ac9def01ebb75e839e2c4246582a" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=bdc5ac9def01ebb75e839e2c4246582a" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=aIOJPS0Y"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=GV3RZ56B"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=GsZTo37P"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=GsZTo37P" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=HsxNadRv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=HsxNadRv" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/PrZFTIwcphE" height="1" width="1"/

Previously mentioned people search engine Pipl has updated with a slightly tweaked look and better, more organized results. In a quick comparison between recently featured 123people and Pipl, the...

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=492460c614b9b9e500c241c3maxX=173maxY=173" border="0" alt="Sean Suchter.jpg" title="Sean Suchter.jpg" width="173" height="173" /An employee tipster a href="http://valleywag.com/5093229/is-yahoo-done-with-search"tells Valleywag/a that Yahoo's VP of Search Technology Sean Suchter -- "I run Yahoo's web search engine," a href="http://www.linkedin.com/ppl/webprofile?id=11542121authType=namelnk=sign_inaction=gwptrk=ppro_geturlauthToken=xcrR"Suchter says in his LinkedIn profile/a -- is leaving the company and might join Microsoft./p pWe left a message with Sean and are waiting to hear back. Please a href="mailto:nicholas@alleyinsider.com"let us know more details/a if you have them./p pValleywag's tipster says Schuster's departure means "the end of Yahoo search." We think that's a bit overdramatic. Yahoo (YHOO) search is more popular than Microsoft (MSFT) search because Yahoo.com is a very popular home page -- not because it's better search technology. (Is it, even? Who knows is our point.)/p pNevertheless, judging by Valleywag's screechy tipster, it does sound like Microsoft may have plucked a very popular engineering leader:/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Everyone in the office is shocked. I've been on the Yahoo Search team for a while and he is the one key executive that it all depends on. If Microsoft has convinced him to leave and join them, they won't need to buy Yahoo Search. We will just all join Microsoft anyway. I am definitely going to send him my resume./p pValleywag's also obtained a memo, which we've pasted below.:/p blockquote pFrom: Tuoc Luongbr / Date: 11/18/08 3:43 PMbr / To: Yahoo Search Team/p pHi Everyone,/p pUnfortunately, I have to give some bad news to you. Sean Suchter has resigned. Sean's last day will be December 19th./p pSome of you will find this news shocking given that Sean has been a Gibraltar rock at Yahoo and in particular for the Search team. . I understand this./p pI will point out that we're on a good trajectory. We've released some good products and capabilities and the industry is beginning to take notice. We've closed the gap in Algo relevance and making great strides in building the next generation differentiated search experience and step function in relevance - not to mention infrastructure overhaul that prepares us for the future./p pI came here to take on Google because I believe Yahoo above all is best positioned to take the battle to Google. I think we're on the right path to changing the tide and would love to see everyone make the journey but I respect Sean's personal decision. I'm committed to continue the battle against Google as long as Yahoo positions Search to be competitive (and I believe we are). I hope each and all of you feel the same way and stand with me to battle Google./p pI've asked Arnab to step up and take over Sean's role as head of YST. Just as Sean has been a strong arm for me, Arnab has been a strong arm for Sean. Although Sean casts a large shadow, I believe Arnab will step up to fill the hole with your support. Arnab will cast his own shadow as the new leader of YST and it's the same YST team that has deliver great products like Search Assist, Secure Scan, SearchMonkey, BOSS, numerous MLR and QRW release to close the GAP in core relevance./p pSean and Arnab have been communicating to the YST leaders about the changes. Arnab has been thinking and discussing the new organization with people. He will send out an e-mail describing his organizational thoughts and plan for YST soon. I believe with the support of other leaders (myself, Bharat, Yongdong, Nam, ..etc), Arnab will fill the void and continue the battle with Google. I urge everyone to support Arnab in his new endeavor./p pTomorrow, I'll be holding an all managers meeting to discuss the changes and QAs./p pPlease wish Sean the best in his future endeavor and congratulate Arnab in his new role./p pThanks/p pTuoc/p pstrongSee Also:/stronga href="../../2008/11/ballmer-buy-yahoo-nfw"br /Ballmer: We're "Done" With Buying Yahoo/a/p /blockquote pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/rfaU_-Q7y7V2AvYsfJyZruy4g3Y/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/rfaU_-Q7y7V2AvYsfJyZruy4g3Y/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=IQcokKwS"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=IQcokKwS" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=weLXPwYU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=0RrTr9ks"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=QYRrmmU6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=QYRrmmU6" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=VitDVZT7"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=You3rHpK"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=ppU7uDIL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=vMzHcC5n"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/LwMxRyJ86sk" height="1" width="1"/

The mighty search engine has struck a deal to bring Life magazine’s astounding 10 million images, most of which have never been seen, to the Internet.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/eh/rss/C157/~4/458628973" height="1" width="1"/

Baidu.com has been the star of China's Internet world. But now the search engine dubbed "China's Google" is scrambling to rescue its reputation after state TV accused it of letting unlicensed suppliers of medical products pay for higher rankings on its results page--without alerting users.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=q3lUN"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=q3lUN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=6F8en"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=6F8en" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=UvzPn"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=UvzPn" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ibtimes/tech/~4/458565656" height="1" width="1"/

IBM's alphaWorks has released HeapAnalyzer 2.9, a tool for locating possible memory leaks through "heuristic search engine and analysis of the Java heap dump in Java applications. Java heap areas define objects, arrays, and classes. When the Garbage Collector allocates areas of storage in the heap, an object continues to be live while a reference to it exists somewhere in the active state of the JVM; therefore the object is reachable. When an object ceases to be referenced from the active state, it becomes garbage and can be reclaimed for reuse. When this reclamation occurs, the Garbage Collector must process a possible finalizer and also ensure that any internal JVM resources that are associated with the object are returned to the pool of such resources. Java heap dumps are snap shots of Java heaps at specific times." This is a bug fix release.

Google released an app they call Search-based Keyword Tool. Google says this tool “generates keyword and landing page ideas highly relevant and specific to your website” and in doing so, “helps you identify additional advertising opportunities that aren’t currently being used in your AdWords ad campaigns.” (Google AdWords already has a keywords tool. Google says as opposed to the existing tool, this new one “generates keyword ideas based on your website, and identifies those currently not being used in your AdWords account”.)

You can enter the domain of a website, and Google then tries to return a set of search phrases that may be of relevance to your site. Next to the search query, you’ll see an approximation of the number of monthly searches for this, the level of competition, a suggested bidding price if you want to advertise in Google results using AdWords, and the target page from which the keywords were extracted. (Checking with one of my sites, the phrases listed were already showing the identified target page in the top or top 5 spots at google.com, so advertising