Tag Archives: Yahoo! Search

How Bing could kill Google by partnering with news organizations such as the New York Times

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

According to Jason Calcanis… [click here for the debunking of this idea].

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MicroSoft buying Yahoo! Search business?

Posted on July 19, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

I only see a Reuters item about this at TechMeme.

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David Pennock’s boss is clueless.

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz is totally clueless. She is not the right person to lead a search engine / portal.

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Midas Oracle has a de facto monopoly on “collective forecasting”.

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

If you type “collective forecasting” in the 3 main search engines, Midas Oracle pops up as #1 in the results. Thanks to Emile of NewsFutures and Prof Robin for their devotion and plain hard work in pushing this industry keyword … Continue reading →

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Do give the Nobel prize to Yahoo! research scientist David Pennock. — Santo Subito! [*]

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

He and his co-authors were the first to publish about the fact that flu-related searches on the Web are precise predictors of the upcoming influenza outbreaks. Congrats. Best wishes for the rest of their scientific career. [*] “Make him a … Continue reading →

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Google and Yahoo! are sending to us almost one thousand web visitors searching for predictions on the next US elections, each weekday that God makes.

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

- – Midas Oracle is #1 for the “us electoral map prediction” query. – Midas Oracle is #5 for the “us electoral map” query. – Midas Oracle is #7 for the “us elections prediction” query. – etc. WE ARE MIDAS … Continue reading →

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