As Yahoo continues to urge its shareholders to support them in the coming annual meeting and to prevent Icahn from influencing their decision, here comes Legg Mason Capital Management, one of Yahoo’s biggest investor pledging their support for the current board. Legg Mason Capital Management, on behalf of its clients, is the beneficial owner of [...]

Whatever Google’s intention and purpose were for buying Russian contextual ad company called ZAO Begun is, only them knows. But we’re free to speculate, it’s a free web after all. So for those who are not in the loop prior to reading about this news (that includes me), ZAO Begun is part of the internet [...]

This is another geo-targeting case study I decided to discuss at SEJ. Say you have one product and you plan to target two same-language countries: USA and UK. Which options do you have?

A lot of numbers relating to earnings, revenues and search advertising have just went out for all of us to consume. First we have this report from Efficient Frontier saying Google’s share of the search ads for the Q2 has reached 77.4%. Comparing Q2 2007 data with that of Q2 2008, showed a 2% increase, [...]

Yahoo’s Jerry Yang has sent out an email to Yahoo shareholders disclosing that the company is willing to sell itself to Microsoft for $33 per share or more. Arnold reviewed the meat of the letter, so readers don’t have to run through it all themselves, but we wanted to focus on this phrase in the [...]

Less than half a month to go before the dreaded Yahoo Shareholders’ meeting, Yahoo’s Jerry Yang and Roy Bostock sent a joint letter to the shareholders urging them to support the current Board. Nothing fancy or new things has been said in the letter though. The letter updates the shareholders of what the current Yahoo [...]

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We interrupt our regular coverage of the ongoing Yahoo-Microsoft tussle to focus on what could possibly be both companies’ fall back options. It seems like the focus of attention now is the acquisition of  Time Warner’s AOL property. Reports say that both Microsoft and Yahoo are eyeing a deal with Time Warner on two different [...]

Like plural/ singular word forms, hyphenated terms also often pose a difficult SEO issues for us to solve – which version to use and optimize for: two-word, one-word or hyphenated one? That question would be much easier to answer if Google demonstrated any definitive behavior when treating hyphenated terms; instead when using a hyphen in [...]