Google is already deeply entrenched in the Seattle region, with more than 1,000 employees spread between offices in Kirkland, Bothell and Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood. Now, the Internet search leader is… Read More
Google climbed back to 67 percent percent of the U.S. search market in January, putting just a bit more distance between itself and Microsoft Bing and Yahoo. The latest numbers… Read More
Blucora, the Bellevue search and tax preparation company formerly known as InfoSpace, today reported a 46 percent in revenue for the fourth quarter. Shares jumped more than 10 percent in… Read More
WhitePages has been around the startup block a few times, and now the 16-year-old Seattle company is injecting a bit of new blood. The company today is announcing that it… Read More
The Internet search alliance between Microsoft and Yahoo appears to be stuck in neutral, and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants that to change. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet… Read More
Yahoo and Google this afternoon announced an agreement to put ads from Google’s AdSense and AdMob systems on Yahoo sites. It’s a non-exclusive deal, but it’s also a clear sign… Read More
Just two days after landing a big partnership with Facebook’s new Graph Search, Bing today announced more robust Facebook integration with Microsoft’s search engine. Currently when you search on Bing,… Read More
Who are your friends that live in Seattle? Which ones of those like the Seattle Seahawks? What restaurants have your friends gone to lately, and which ones have they liked… Read More
Expedia is expanding its presence in Europe today with an announcement that it has acquired 61.6 percent of Trivago, a 7-year-old Düsseldorf, Germany-based hotel search company. Bellevue-based Expedia is paying $632… Read More
A week from today, on Nov. 10, the Space Shuttle Trainer will make its official debut at the Museum of Flight in Seattle — giving the public an up-close look at… Read More
People buy homes for all sorts of reasons — fenced yards, fireplaces and big master bedrooms. But, as many parents can attest, those factors often take a back seat to… Read More
The world is becoming a smaller place, yet even with communications and social media technologies you can still feel cut off from the experiences, fears and desires of those living… Read More
Matthew Berk is just four weeks into his new Seattle startup, Lucky Oyster. But the former executive vice president of product engineering at Marchex and CTO at Open List already understands… Read More
Shares of Google are tumbling today after the search giant released quarterly earnings in which the company reported revenue of $14.10 billion, a 45 percent increase. However, net income fell… Read More
Evri has met the end of the road. The Seattle startup, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has decided to wind down its commercial offerings, focusing now on R&D efforts,… Read More
Navigating Cancer, an online resource for patients who are dealing with various forms of cancer, has reeled in an additional $2.25 million in debt funding led by Western Technology Investment. The… Read More
Microsoft’s Bing search engine today rolled out the latest in a series of Facebook-related features, launching a tool for quickly searching photos uploaded to the social network by your friends. It’s… Read More
Microsoft is adding content from top contributors on the Quora question-and-answer site to the “social sidebar” on its Bing search results pages, trying to boost the usefulness of the feature. The results… Read More
Shares of Blucora skyrocketed more than 26 percent on Friday after the Bellevue Internet search and tax software company formerly known as InfoSpace posted strong earnings. The stock was trading… Read More
Google posted revenues of $12.21 billion during the second quarter, a 35 percent increase over the same period last year. The search company’s net income grew to $2.79 billion, up… Read More
Yahoo posted so-so quarterly results this afternoon, with revenue flat at $1.08 billion after adjusting for the cost of acquiring traffic. One reason for the underwhelming performance: Microsoft’s alliance with… Read More
Well, if summer ever officially arrives around these parts, Dwellable’s new service might be a nice resource. The Seattle upstart, created last year by Urbanspoon co-founder Adam Doppelt, today is… Read More
Advertising usually doesn’t offer the consumer anything of real tangible value — other than a few funny one-liners to toss around. But a new Ask.com campaign running in Seattle dubbed “You… Read More
Microsoft Bing announced a deal this morning with Yelp to incorporate information from the business search and review service into the Bing Local search experience, continuing the Redmond company’s strategy… Read More
Investors are liking the new face of InfoSpace. The Bellevue company, a dot-com darling and survivor, transformed itself yet again with the $287 million purchase of online tax preparation company… Read More
Jon Stewart had quite a bit of fun at the expense of Google and Google+ last night, lampooning the FCC’s recent $25,000 fine against the company and joking that posting… Read More
If you don’t keep up with the top search engine blogs or Google’s own search blog, then you likely miss out on the news about Google’s search quality updates. You… Read More
Sutton WestCoast Realty, one of the largest real estate brokerages in Canada, has received a cease-and-desist letter asking that the brokerage take down a Web site that allegedly mirrors one… Read More
Seattle startup Walk Score is rolling out a new search function that allows would-be apartment dwellers to find the perfect neighborhood — discovering rental properties that are close to coffee… Read More
As an industry, SEO has been around since 1995, born during the early days of Yahoo. It really began to grow up, however, when Google started in the early 2000s.… Read More