http://paidcontent.org/2009/08/14/419-twitters-new-director-of-search-hails-from-yahoo-inktomi-via-a-wine-sea/ The economics of digital content Sat, 25 May 2013 21:53:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2009/08/14/419-twitters-new-director-of-search-hails-from-yahoo-inktomi-via-a-wine-sea/#comment-73207 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:41:41 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/08/14/419-twitters-new-director-of-search-hails-from-yahoo-inktomi-via-a-wine-sea/#comment-73207 URLMINIFER.COM Advanced url forwarding service :d

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2009/08/14/419-twitters-new-director-of-search-hails-from-yahoo-inktomi-via-a-wine-sea/#comment-73206 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:19:05 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/08/14/419-twitters-new-director-of-search-hails-from-yahoo-inktomi-via-a-wine-sea/#comment-73206 I'm with Craig on this. There are enough opportunities to blame engineers for engineering failures without also blaming them for business ones.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2009/08/14/419-twitters-new-director-of-search-hails-from-yahoo-inktomi-via-a-wine-sea/#comment-73205 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:00:14 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/08/14/419-twitters-new-director-of-search-hails-from-yahoo-inktomi-via-a-wine-sea/#comment-73205 Inktomi and Yahoo's search were business — not engineering — failures. The ideas and technological innovation created by these companies, as well as the likes of AltaVista and even IBM, provided much of fundamental scaling, indexing and performance foundation for Google, as top engineering resources for those companies joined Google's team. Google's brilliance wasn't PageRank — IBM had already established link analysis as beneficial. It was CPC search-based advertising done in a way that was non-intrusive and remarkably effective. Solving Twitter's elusive monetization problem is something that Twitter as a whole, not just the search wizard, has to tackle if it wants to become the next Google.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2009/08/14/419-twitters-new-director-of-search-hails-from-yahoo-inktomi-via-a-wine-sea/#comment-73204 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:04:49 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/08/14/419-twitters-new-director-of-search-hails-from-yahoo-inktomi-via-a-wine-sea/#comment-73204 considering both Inktomi and Yahoo were failures relative to expectations not sure I'd be too bullish on this hire. Sorry.

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