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Yahoo! Speaks at Web 3.0 Conference & Expo
The Web 3.0 Conference & Expo kicks off this week in Santa Clara and the Yahoo! Search team will be there speaking on a couple of panels about SearchMonkey and Yahoo! Search BOSS.Thursday, October 16thTime: 2:00 - 2:50 p.m.Session: Demo Hour: Semantic Search SolutionsDescription: This session showcases practical applications for semantic search and the benefits of semantic technologies in improving relevancy of results. In this track, Yahoo! will speak to developers' and site owners' use of structured data to make Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing and drive more site traffic with SearchMonkey.Yahoo!: Tom Chi, Senior Director, Product Management, Yahoo! SearchFriday, October 17thTime: 1:00 - 1:50 p.m.Session: Improved Services DEMO SessionDescription: This demo session showcases Web 3.0 products that have raised the bar in service delivery to users and/or customers. Yahoo! will share how BOSS is helping developers, startups and large Internet companies build their own search services and move the needle in next-generation search innovation.Yahoo!: Bill Michels, Senior Director, Open Search Platform, Yahoo! SearchCheck out the complete conference schedule for more sessions on next-generation web technologies. And stop by the panels and say hi. We look forward to seeing you there.Yahoo! Search Blog team
Five Yahoo! Search Panels at SMX East
At the Javits Convention Center in New York next week, the Yahoo! Search team will speak on five SMX East panels to address a number of industry topics, including spam, URLs and domains, design techniques, and enhanced listings. Also, the team will offer answers to your questions and give you a behind-the-scenes look at search engines in the "Ask the Search Engines" SEO Track on Wednesday.Check out our line-up and stop by if you're in the neighborhood. You can find the team at the Meet & Eat tables during lunch on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday too.Tuesday, October 7thTime: 10:45 a.m. - noonSession: What is Spam?Description: Search representatives share their views on what search spam is.Yahoo!: Sean Suchter, VP of EngineeringTime: 1:30 - 2:45 p.m.Session: Unraveling URLs & Demystifying DomainsDescription: This session looks at a variety of URL and domain name issues you should consider to increase your success with SEO.Yahoo!: Sean Suchter, VP of EngineeringTime: 3:15 - 4:30 p.m.Session: CSS, AJAX, Web 2.0 and SEODescription: CSS, AJAX and Web 2.0 dynamic design techniques can cause search engine indexing and ranking issues. This session examines solutions to consider.Yahoo!: Sharad Verma, Senior Product Manager, Web SearchTime: 3:15 - 4:30 p.m.Session: Enhanced ListingsDescription: Search engines are moving towards enhanced listings. How can search marketers tap into them?Yahoo!: Larry Cornett, VP of Consumer ProductsWednesday, October 8thTime: 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.Session: Ask the Search Engines (SEO Track)Description: This Q&A panel gives a behind-the-scenes look at how things work in the world of indexing and ranking pages.Yahoo!: Sean Suchter, VP of EngineeringThe Yahoo! Search Marketing team is speaking on a number of other panels as well, so be sure to check out the conference site for more details on their whereabouts. Hope to see you there.Yahoo! Search Blog team
Phone Tied to Google Puts HTC in Spotlight
The introduction of the first cellphone powered by Google's software is a coming-out party for another more obscure but no less ambitious company -- HTC.HTC, a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer, was chosen by Google more than two years ago to build the first mobile phone based on its Android software in large part because of its proven ability to design and build head-turning mobile devices.For HTC, it amounted to another victory in its efforts to do battle for the high end of the phone market with the likes of the iPhone maker Apple, BlackBerry's maker, Research In Motion, and others."I think we are ready," said Cher Wang, a Taiwanese plastics mogul's daughter who helped found the company in 1997 and serves as its chairwoman. "We have a strong customer base of people who want our devices."HTC accounted for about one in six smartphones in the United States in the first half of this year, but the overwhelming majority of them do not carry the HTC brand, according to Nielsen Mobile.For much of the past decade, the company operated in relative obscurity as a contract manufacturer for companies like Compaq, Palm and many cellphone carriers, who stamped their own brands on the products.About two years ago, HTC decided to come out of the shadows with an ambitious goal: establish a global consumer electronics brand that its executives hope will become synonymous with quality."We are far from being there," said John Wang, HTC's chief marketing officer. But Wang said the company was off to a good start. It has sold two million units of the HTC Touch, introduced last year, and in just three months, one million units of the Touch Diamond, a slick and slim device that reviewers have compared to the iPhone.The Google-powered phone, which was scheduled to be presented Tuesday...
NAB Seeks To Delay FCC’s White-Space Ruling
The National Association of Broadcasters is raising objections to a Federal Communications Commission report suggesting that unlicensed wireless devices could operate in vacant slices of the white-space spectrum without causing interference to adjacent TV channels.The NAB said the executive summary released by the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology is actually contradicted by the report's key findings. "It would appear that the FCC is misinterpreting the actual data collected by their own engineers," said NAB Executive Vice President Dennis Wharton. "Any reasonable analysis of the OET report would conclude that unlicensed devices that rely solely on spectrum sensing threaten the viability of clear television reception."Not So FastThe FCC is expected to consider approving white-space devices at the next meeting of the five commissioners on Nov. 4. The move would be a victory for Google cofounder Larry Page, who recently told members of the Wireless Innovation Alliance that he hoped the FCC would act before the results of the November elections were in. "We can show real leadership in the world in a way that matters to everybody," Page said. However, the trade association representing the nation's broadcasters wants the FCC to seek public comments on its report before it decides to move forward. "With the transition to digital television looming and tens of millions of TV viewers at risk, the stakes are too high for this proposal to be rammed through without thoughtful deliberation," Wharton said.The NAB said the test results documented in the report clearly show that the spectrum-sensing technique used by the white-space devices that were tested is clearly not reliable. For example, the report said Microsoft's prototype sample device "began to malfunction and eventually ceased to operate, necessitating the abandonment of further measurement utilizing this device."And with respect to the prototype devices that the FCC...
Meet the BOSS Team at TechCrunch50
Yahoo! is joining Michael Arrington as a major sponsor at TechCrunch50, TechCrunch's second annual conference, at the San Francisco Design Center Concourse Monday through Wednesday, September 8 - 10.More than 50 early stage companies will pitch their products and ideas in front of a host of respected VCs, execs and entrepreneurs. A panel of judges will also award $50,000 to one of the startups. Yahoo!'s Ash Patel, Head of the Audience Products Division, will serve as one of the TechCrunch50 judges this year.
The Yahoo! Search BOSS team will also be exhibiting, so if you're a start-up or interested in starting a business in this space, stop by our booth to learn more about our open search web services platform, meet the team and see a demo of the product. We'll be there from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. all three days. We'll also be giving away some swag and maybe a prize or two.But what's a TechCrunch gathering without some socializing? Yahoo! is sponsoring the closing cocktail reception on Wednesday from 6 - 8 p.m., so don't miss it.For more details on TechCrunch50 2008 and Yahoo!'s presence at the show -- including Ash Patel's panel on Monday from 2:15 - 5 p.m. -- check out the conference site.Yahoo! Search Blog team
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