Each Friday, we bring you a roundup of the last week’s stories on Searchviews and beyond. Happy weekend reading!
On Searchviews:
- Our take on consumer package good companies and their definition of branding
- E-mail meets social networking in startup Zenbe
- MediaPost article by our own Peter Hershberg on understanding your customer’s search vocabulary
- An analysis of Henry Blodget’s SAI Live 25
- We catch Google displaying “ad scores” on searches
- A new paper on real image recognition in search
- Peter weights in again, this time on Google’s suite of services and what it means for the future of search
Elsewhere:
- Grand Theft Auto IV launches to a thunderous response while mocking some well-known companies in the way only Rockstar can
- Google debuts TV Ads, a way of encouraging AdWords advertisers to move to TV
- AT&T announces plans to subsidize the new iPhone by $200 this summer, fueling speculation as to the reason why
- The Web hits its 15th anniversary
- Microsoft and Yahoo go back and forth on the takeover deal, with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer weighing his options after Yahoo’s board raised it ask price to $37 a share, a 26% premium
