Search optimizer Quintura has raised an undisclosed bridge funding from Mangrove Capital Partners as part of a larger round of financing. In a post on its official blog, Moscow-based Quintura…

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The state of search ads, the rise of display ads, issues with ad agencies and why does anyone need yet another browser are some of the topics Tim Armstrong, Google’s…

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Yandex, the big Russian search engine, has delayed its much-anticipated IPO until next year, according to local reports. Earlier this year reports came out that Yandex was planning a US…

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Cambridge, MA.-based JumpTap, a white-label mobile search and advertising company, plans to announce today that it has raised $26 million in a fourth round of funding, bringing its overall total…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is restructuring its Search Business Group to add a new group geared toward commercial search. It’s picked Multimap CEO Jeff Kelisky to be GM of this new…

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After Google (NSDQ: GOOG) completed its acquisition of DoubleClick earlier this year, it announced plans to divest itself of Performics, the search marketing firm that came with the package. That…

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Online search and information site Infospace posted Q2 net income of $1.9 million ($0.06 per diluted share) from last year’s $28.1 million ($0.86 per share) net loss. Net income in…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has launched its free music search engine in China, in a sector which has seen its fair share of controversies. The users can search for songs by…

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Monster, the incumbent job site, has announced a couple of deals this afternoon, as it looks to fight off upstart competitors, like LinkedIn, Craigslist, Indeed.com and TheLadders… first it has…

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Clickable, a New York City-based online search advertising and marketing startup, has received $14.5 million in its second round. The round was led the Founder’s Fund, as well as its…

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Zubican, a recently launched business search site, has announced investors including Athenaeum Capital, Pasadena Angels, Tech Coast Angels, along with founders and executives of JAMDAT Mobile, mp3.com, NTI Group, Overture…

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Cambridge, UK-based online search firm True Knowledge has closed its second round of funding...the funding was led by existing investors Octopus Ventures and angel investors. It brings the total raised…

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If you must think of every new thing as the “something-killer” then you’d probably call Life123 an About.com-killer, or a Mahalo killer, or a Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Knol killer. Fortunately,…

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ESPN.com is planning a major site revamp, but first, it wants to get search right and will then build around some of its new functions. On Thursday, the Disney-owned sports…

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Even as online advertising market is showing some signs of weakness, online ad firms are continuing to get funding: ContextWeb, the NYC-based contextual advertising company, has closed over $26 million…

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Become.com, one of many players in the comparison shopping game, has raised an $8 million fourth round, according to VentureBeat, which doesn’t know the investors. The Mountain View, CA-based company…

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Following Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) acquisition of Powerset, here’s more money for semantic search… Cognition Technologies, a developer of technology for the space, has raised a $2.7 million round from Draper…

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The top legal officers from Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) are currently testifying in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, headed up…

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As IAC (NSDQ: IACI) attempts to buildup Ask.com, it’s made a point of de-emphasizing syndicated search in favor of higher-yield organic search. Doug Anmuth touched on that in the report…

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In an effort to compete against Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and hoping other developers can help it get some search mojo back, Yahoo will let developers, general users (and even rivals)…

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Perfect Market, an Idealab-incubated company offering publishers tools to monetize archival content, has raised a $15.6 million from Trinity Ventures, Rustic Canyon Partners, Square 1 Bank, and founding investor Idealab.…

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Manufacturers’ News (MNI), a publisher of manufacturers’ directories, has acquired vertical search engine IndustryNet.com and will be merging it with its existing industrial search engine, mniguide.com. MNI, established 1912, compiles…

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As was first tipped last week, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has confirmed the acquisition of semantic search engine Powerset. The announcement was made this afternoon in posts on Microsoft’s Live Search…

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Ru-Net, the Russian internet investment firm, has acquired a 51 percent stake in IConText, a Russian contextual ad firm, reports Vedomosti (via Quintura). The deal may be valued around $7…

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In a major step forward in search technology, Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is working with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) to make Flash files searchable in online search. The…

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