| Chinese Search Engine Youdao Uses TopCoder Competition Platform to Find Technical Talent (redOrbit) ., today announced with China-based NetEase, (Nasdaq: NTES), and its independently developed search engine subsidiary, Youdao, the winners of the NetEase/Youdao programming competition, a multi stage computer programming challenge seeking the best and brightest algorithmists from across China. Yi Yang, (TopCoder handle: ahyangyi), was awarded first prize of $7,300 with a score of 2804. Yang ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
Google Custom Search Engine Sitemaps Display Bug (Search Engine Roundtable) For those of you who use the Google Custom Search Engine , like we do here, you may have noticed that it is having issues reading your XML Sitemap file. Yes, with a Google CSE (custom search engine), you can feed it your pages, like you do with normal web search, with your Sitemap file. If you do that now, you may see an error that reads: Oops! We were not able to retrieve a list of Sitemaps ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
[Ads by Yahoo!] Google Black A cooler alternative to your everyday search engine. rc10.overture.com |
Lycos gets snapped up by Ybrant Digital Lycos, an early search engine company that gained prominence in the Internet bubble era, is in the headlines again this week as online-marketing company Ybrant Digital is going to buy the once-prominent Internet company for $36 million. Since the heady Internet bubble days, Lycos has changed ownership a few times. Indian-based Ybrant Digital purchased Lycos from South Korean-based Daum ... fiercetelecom.com |
Pop Quiz: How Did a $12 Billion Search Engine Sell for $36 Million? Ten years ago, search-engine portal Lycos sold to Terra Networks for $12.5 billion. Six years ago, Korean Internet firm Daum acquired the company for $95.4 million. And today, Lycos switched hands again, this time to India's Ybrant Digital--for only $36 million. That's a 99.712% drop in value in just one decade. The company went from receiving roughly 50 million unique visitors daily to boasting ... fastcompany.com |