Yahoo! 2.0

Stephen Taylor is the RVP and MD Search & Search Marketing at Yahoo! UK. Before Yahoo!, he was the MD of Overture Europe. I, on the other hand, am a little-​​​​known hack from South West London with a penchant for strong lager and pizzas. Stephen may also like those things.

How are the new changes to

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Yahoo! and China

Wondered about Yahoo! and China? Censored search results? Shopping journ­al­ists to a com­munist state machine?

Here’s what a company spokes­person told me:

“Yahoo! opposes the pun­ish­ment of any person on the grounds of what may be called free speech. We firmly oppose that. However, we have to abide by the local laws of whatever country we

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Watching the watchmen

Yesterday, I spoke with Mark Opzoomer. Mark was the MD of Yahoo! Europe between 2001 and 2003. Now he’s involved in a number of ventures, but I was talking to him about his par­ti­cip­a­tion with Garlik. Garlik is set to launch as an online privacy service later this year. The idea is that they’ll scour the web

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1999 and all that

Here’s where you get to help me. What follows is a draft of a chapter about the dotcom bubble. What I am lacking is personal anec­dotes, so I feel it’s a bit dry, though I do have a few to add in. Did you make a mint overnight? Did you lose it again? Did you lose your job or your business? Did you

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The business of friendship

Social net­working is big business, as we all know. MySpace has now become America’s most visited website with 4.46% of all web traffic in the week ending July 8th, putting it ahead of Google Search, MSN and Yahoo!. Bebo has reputedly turned down an offer of $552mn for its network, (not true —

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