by Danny Sullivan Apparently talks between Google and the Associated Press aren’t going well, or so says Forbes today, with AP chief executive Tom Curley threatening to take his content and play elsewhere. Where that will be is hard to say. Part of the AP’s original issue with Google was that AP’s own member publications [...]

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by Danny Sullivan Google’s a split-personality company. On the one hand, it wants people to believe that it could lose its customers at any time, lest it get viewed as a monopoly. But question its ability on the technical front, and the Big G will go off on you like nobody’s business. That’s what happened [...]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: You Can Search TechmemeYou can now search for past Techmeme articles directly on the site or at http://techmeme.com/search/. Techmeme’s founder, Gabe Rivera, announced the new feature today at his blog. He explained [...]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other places across the web From Search Engine Land: Coming Search Marketing Webcasts From SMN Our sister site, Search Marketing Now, is offering a nice mix of free webcasts later this month, ranging from dealing with big PPC campaigns, big brand [...]

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Yesterday before Google’s annual meeting of shareholders, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page fielded questions from reporters on a range of subjects, including a potential paid search deal with Yahoo and its anti-trust implications. Their argument was that a future paid search deal could be set up in a way [...]

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