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Google showdown: Can Barry Diller win IAC search advertising war?

Push Google off its search advertising throne? Not so FAST! I said earlier this week.Barry Diller, King of the IAC search and advertising empire, does have royal designs of his own, nevertheless.CEO Diller has set in motion a series of initiatives within his integrated conglomerate of Web properties fueling an...

Tags: Search Advertising, Search, Google Ads, Google, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-05-03

Push Google off its search advertising throne? Not so FAST!

Another day, another company that claims to be the one that will dethrone $150 billion market cap, and “everyone’s favorite garage band,” Google from its search advertising kingdom.Who is the latest to put forth the would-be Google slayer, along with potential killer of perennial runner-up Yahoo and slow out of...

Tags: Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Google Ads, AdWords, Advertising

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Can avatars and smileys boost Ask's search share?

Can a Zwinky avatar, new smiley or fancy cursor increase the number of times people use the Ask search engine? Interactive Corp. CFO Tom McInerney hopes so. McInerney speaking at the JPMorgan Internet conference in New York City outlined Interactive...

Tags: Tom McInerney, toolbar, IAC

Blog posts 2007-03-12

IAC, Dow Jones team for personal finance online community

Barry Diller, CEO, IAC/Interactive, is fond of saying flagship search engine Ask.com is the “glue” for IAC’s integrated conglomerate of Internet properties, even though Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone prefers to see himself as a head “chef.”(SEE Jim Lanzone’s vision for Ask.com: Exclusive Interview)Be it by “glue” or a “mixing of...

Tags: team, Ask.com, finance, personal finance, IAC, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Barry Diller

Blog posts 2007-03-11

CitySearch bails out InsiderPages: What's the deal?

IAC is taking the struggling InsiderPages local reviews site off of the hands of its founder Idealab and investors Sequoia capital and Softbank Capital.Bill Gross, Idealab CEO, at the Idealab homepage:We began Idealab with the dream of creating ground-breaking companies whose products and services would change the way people think,...

Tags: Social Software, Search Advertising, Metrics, Social Media, Social Networking, Marketing, Social Web, Amateur Content, Yellow Pages, User-Generated Content, Google, Culture, Search, Advertising, Local, Web 2.0, Business Models

Blog posts 2007-03-01

IAC CEO Barry Diller on Ask.com

A few weeks ago I asked Jim Lanzone, CEO, Ask.com, for his thoughts on Barry Diller, CEO of corporate parent IAC, considering Ask.com to be the “glue” for IAC’s “integrated conglomerate” of Web properties. SEE “Jim Lanzone’s vision for Ask.com: ‘Real Deal’ Interview”Lanzone told me he prefers to see himself...

Tags: Business Models, Advertising, Search, Google, Google Software Applications, ROI, Metrics, Search Advertising, IAC, Barry Diller

Blog posts 2007-02-07

Pronto.com shopping search emerges in IAC: CEO Interview

“Integrated conglomerate” InterActiveCorp IAC boasts its Pronto.com property is “the Webs most comprehensive comparison-shopping engine.”Developed in-house as an “emerging business,” Pronto.com leverages IAC’s retail and online advertising know-how and targets the estimated $300 billion ecommerce opportunity forecast for 2010.IAC is a highly acquisitive company; It built its “integrated conglomerate” via...

Tags: Business Models, Search, ecommerce, ROI, Search Advertising, IAC, Pronto.com

Blog posts 2007-01-22

Ask has the mojo to double its search market share

Ask is aiming to double its market share in the search and judging from AskX may just have the mojo to do so. On a conference call Dec. 19 Interactive Corp. IAC chief Barry Diller outlined the companys outlook for the year ahead. ...

Tags: IAC, AskX, Barry Diller

Blog posts 2006-12-21

Ask is IAC's glue: AskCity to AskX to AskNews…

Barry Diller underscored today “how difficult it is to operate twelve totally separate businesses that have commonality only in that they are interactive.”The CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp. asserted to investors that IAC is up to the challenge and has the solution; Glue the businesses together, via Ask.com:Ask.com is the connector, the...

Tags: ROI, Brands, Search, Advertising, Business Models, IAC, AskCity

Blog posts 2006-12-19

IAC local strategies: Citysearch vs. AskCity

I asked the $31 billion question yesterday, “How do YOU find local info?”How about the $11 billion IAC market cap question: “Will you look for local info at Citysearch or AskCity?” In “IAC’s AskCity is hard to ask” I discuss the launch yesterday of what IAC CEO Barry Diller calls...

Tags: IAC, CitySearch, AskCity, Marketing, Brands, Search, Advertising, Local, Business Models

Blog posts 2006-12-05

IAC's AskCity hard to ask

The $31 billion local online search and classifieds market opportunity is not Google’s for the taking, I put forth yesterday in “Google: $31 billion local winner?” Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp upped the local ante today with the launch of a new, locally-focused service within IAC’s Ask.com search engine. Fellow...

Tags: IAC, CitySearch, AskCity, Local

Blog posts 2006-12-04

Ask.com's Trojan Horse--AskCity

Ask.com isn’t suffering from an inferiority complex, despite being fourth in the search engine rankings. Company CEO Jim Lanzone told me that he expects to reach double digit growth for his search engine, which currently is less than 6 percent according to various measurement services. He pointed to the fact...

Tags: AskCity, Jim Lanzone, Search, Web Technology, Personal Technology, General

Blog posts 2006-12-03

Does IAC dig Digg?

Barry Diller, CEO of InterActiveCorp, is keen on news; Delivering it online, that is.Diller runs what he calls an "integrated conglomerate," an amalgam of Internet properties in diverse sectors, from retail to dating, and from entertainment to real estate.Diller has intimated of late that he seeks to add one more...

Tags: Amateur Content, Print, Local, Media, Culture, Digg, Barry Diller, IAC

Blog posts 2006-11-28

Poll on Digg: Will Barry Diller buy Digg?

In "Is Digg on Barry Diller’s IAC shopping list? Move over News Corp." I discuss how Michael Jackson, IAC/InterActiveCorp programming president, is honing in on online sites that “aggregate and edit news and help point people to the best information available,” as buyout candidates.Barry Diller, IAC Chairman & CEO, has allocated...

Tags: Digg, IAC, Barry Diller

Blog posts 2006-11-02

Is Digg on Barry Diller's IAC shopping list? Move over News Corp.

Barry Diller is on an IAC/InterActiveCorp mission. In reporting his company’s Q3 earnings today, the IAC Chairman and CEO said:We are unabashedly building an interactive conglomerate. We have three interrelated strategies: one, the growth of each of our businesses; two, Ask.com as the connecting thread; and three, all our cross...

Tags: IAC, Barry Diller, Kara Nortman

Blog posts 2006-10-31

Additional Resources

VA now loves its VistA software

In a VA hospital recently and watched VistA at workThe VA hospital in Omaha Nebraska handles about ten times the load of a normal hospital and every single bit of the load is possible because of their software. My sister had a big glitch show up in her medical...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), HEALTHCARE, Vista Software, Yes Vista, VA Hospital, MUMPS, hospital, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-10-15

Is Barry Diller delusional?

Here's chapter 120 of Barry Diller's "people will and should pay for online content" tour. But I have a nagging question: Why exactly are we still listening to Diller? First, here's the video of Diller rapping with Katie Couric. The refrain sounds familiar: Pay for online content...

Tags: IAC/InterActive Corp., Channel Management, Corporate Communications, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-29

News to know: AOL; Microsoft; Apple; SAP; Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Time Warner preps for AOL spin-off; Google's 5% stake worth $283 million Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: European...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, America Online Inc., SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Palm Pre, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-07-28

News to know: Chrome OS; Azure; Cable speed; Google Apps; Internet radio

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Google goes after Windows with launch of Chrome OS Matthew Miller: Google Chrome OS announced, It should...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Larry Dignan, Sony Vaio, Internet Radio, Radio, Microsoft Corp., Cable, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-07-08

The Cost of the Free Internet

The outpouring of interest in and passionate argument about IAC chairman Barry Diller’s declaration last week that the delivery of content over the Internet ‘absolutely’ will become a ‘paid system’ was instructive. First, it shows the power of the “free� Internet, as it is currently constructed. A...

Tags: Payment, Video, Cable, Programming, Internet, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-06-16