Yahoo announced on Monday that its chief executive Jerry Yang would step down from that role when the company decides on a replacement.  Mr. Yang is a co-founder of online mogul Yahoo and had assumed control of the company from Terry Semel approximately a year and a half ago.
In a statement, Yahoo said that Mr. [...]

Online video began as a seemingly fuzzy bright idea with relatively little structure and direction.  It seems to have found its path during the presidential election, with online video streams transforming from random assorted video clips to a one-stop destination for all things political.  Online video seems to have become a portal for users to [...]

Many have predicted the future expansion of search.  Search encompasses business listings, entertainment needs, advertising, and the latest trend is medical needs.  To show how prevalent search has become in our everyday lives, Google has tracked search queries pertaining to the field of medicine and discovered that most Americans enter phrases like “flu symptoms” into [...]

Google’s YouTube is a very popular site for user-generated content.  Using revenue generated by placing Google ads along-side searchable videos, the site goes further to suggest related videos and content that may be of interest to the user based on the search query. Video is the future of search it would seem.
This online video model [...]

In recent months, Google has been working diligently to digitize the print world.  Google has scanned millions of works and successfully digitized them for its new Book Search program, allowing for the contents of the books to be searchable and available on the internet.
Like many of Google’s recent business ventures, the Book Search Program has [...]

The long awaited verdict is in with regards to the long awaited proposed advertising deal between Google and Yahoo.  On Wednesday, Google officially announced its decision to bow out of the publicly scrutinized advertising arrangement.  The proposed arrangement of search engines #1 and #2 working directly together created controversy and nearly became a legal trial, [...]

Google’s YouTube has already begun to utilize its popular online public video sharing site to display advertising targeted to the type of video chosen by the viewer, and now social network MySpace is set to follow suit in this online video advertising endeavor.  There is much controversy as to this practice being an infringement of [...]

The attention spans of online video viewers are improving.  Previously viewers were searching for and watching short clips online, and online content was generated based on those findings and habits.  As time goes on and users become more technology savvy, they have begun to utilize the convenience of available network programming online to watch entire [...]

Yahoo and Google are still in the midst of controversy regarding their plans to work together in an advertising deal-wherein Google will place ads next to some Yahoo search results.  Initially the online advertising merger was intended to roll out in October, but the companies have agreed to postpone proceedings to allow the Justice Department [...]

Supercomputers, artificial intelligence and a speed demon connection capability-some say it is the death of the internet as we know it and the birth of “The Grid”.  It is rumored that the grid will connect every computer in the world, thus creating a supercomputer with the capacity to transfer data to computers far more rapidly [...]