Microsoft Research Hits on Google’s Page Rank
“The more visits of the page made by the users and the longer time periods spent by the users on the page, the more likely...
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Arnold Zafra writes daily on the announcements by Google, Ask.com, Yahoo & MSN along with how these announcements effect web publishers. He is currently building three niche blogs covering iPad News, Google Android Phones and E-Book Readers.
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Microsoft Moves On, Signs New Search and Ad Deal with Facebook
For now, Microsoft may have gave up on acquiring Yahoo and lost its only hope of catching up with Google in the search and online...
Microsoft’s Kevin Johnson – Casualty of the Failed Yahoo Deal?
As Microsoft announced a major reorganization, more particularly the splitting up of its Platforms and Services Division (PSD) into the Windows/Windows Live and Online Services,...
Google Decides to Make its Knol Site a Moderated Wikipedia
After seven months since it was announced, Google finally opens its Wikipedia-like web product KNOL to the public. I could understand why it took Google...
Icahn, Yahoo Settle Dispute, Carl Joins the Board
Finally, Yahoo’s woes regarding the proxy battle that Carl Icahn has waged against the Yahoo Board has ended. Both parties have agreed to settle the...
Yahoo Shareholder To Propose an Alternative Board
The Yahoo Plan B group, composed of 150 Yahoo stockholders with their 3.2 million Yahoo shares, are set to ask the current Yahoo leadership to...
As Yahoo Attacks Icahn, Legg Mason Vows to Support the Current Board
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...
Google Buys ZAO Begun, It’s a Contextual Ad Company Folks
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...
Google’s Share of Search Ads and Earnings for Q2 Both Up
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...
Yahoo Urges Shareholders to Support the Current Board
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...
Microsoft and Yahoo Eye Time Warner’s AOL
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...
Google Gets a Lawsuit for Selling Ads on Parked Domains
Legal Attorney Hal K. Levitte filed a complaint before the U.S. District Court in San Jose Calif. against Google for allegedly serving his AdWords’ ads...
Microsoft Worries About the Google-Yahoo Search Ad Deal
Finally Microsoft issued a formal statement regarding the Google-Yahoo search ad deal. Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp. senior vice president and general counsel, questioned the legality...
Microsoft: “Our Proposal Did Not Include a Change of Yahoo Governance”
Microsoft issued a statement clarifying that their proposal last Friday, which Yahoo rejected on Saturday, did not include a change of Yahoo governance. Interestingly, Microsoft...
Google Now Displays Code Search Results as Search Snippets
Sometime in 2005, Google has launched the Code Search, a vertical search property that indexes and parses published source code on the web giving users...
Yahoo Quickly Rejects New Microsoft-Icahn Search Acquisition Offer
It didn’t take that long for the Yahoo Board to renounce the new proposal made by Microsoft and Carl Icahn to acquire Yahoo’s search business...
Yahoo’s Jerry Yang Speaks on Icahn, Microsoft & Shareholders
“And then what will shareholders be left with? A weakened, Icahn-controlled Yahoo.” These were the last few words that Yahoo’s Jerry Yang said during his...
Yahoo Wants You To Build your Own Search Service (BOSS)
It’s bold, it’s radical, it’s drastic and yet it can just be Google Custom Search Engine in a Yahoo environment. Yahoo has just launched the...
Google Launches Lively; Second Life in a Google Environment
Google has just launched its own 3D Virtual World called Lively. Of course the first thing that would come into our mind upon reading “3D...
Icahn to Yahoo Shareholders: Time for Change, Replace Yang and Board
Mr. Icahn sure knows how to start the business week with a bang. Just when Jerry Yang was busy negotiating with Time Warner for a...
Google Adds Privacy Link to Home Page
Finally, Google has added a “privacy” link to its home page which directs users to Google’s Privacy Center which contains a link to Google’s Privacy...
Yahoo Seeks New Merger Deal with AOL : Hopes to Avoid Microsoft
Now, that it’s barely a month to go before the Yahoo Shareholders meeting on August 1 when the fate of the current Yahoo board is...
Hitwise Data Suggests that other Yahoo Properties are More Valuable than Search
Hitwise Intelligence’s VP for Research, Heather Hopkins made an interesting analysis of Yahoo! online properties based on some Hitwise data. Hopkins noted that of the...
Google and Yahoo to Make Flash Content Searchable
Both Google and Yahoo in coordination with Adobe is finally making it easier for webmasters to make Flash contents on their site searchable by search...
Google Retires the Adsense Referrals Program, to Make Way for GAN
Expectedly, now that Google has relaunched DoubleClick’s Performics ad affiliate network as the new Google Affiliate Network, there’s no point in maintaining the Adsense Referrals...
Google Launches Google Affiliate Network
When Google acquired DoubleClick, the company has brought with it its affiliate ad network program called Performics. But Google never did something to push Performics...
Google Now Distributing Online Video Content : Starts with Seth MacFarlane Series
Remember Adsense for Videos which debuted not so long ago? We haven’t heard too much about this new form of placing Google paid ads since...
9 Search-Related Twitter Service to Help You Find Tweets
Here you go, 10 search-related service for all your Twittering needs. Search for Twitter profiles, Twitter discussion, Twitter followings and what-have-yous. If you know of...
Billionaire Icahn Becomes a Good Blogger, He Knows the Importance of an RSS
Billionaire turned blogger Carl Icahn explains why he has not posted anything about his proxy battle against Yahoo in his newly established personal blog. At...
Rumor: Microsoft to Acquire Semantic Search Engine Powerset
Whether this is true or just plain rumor, we’ll let you decide. Venture Beat is reporting a scoop on a possible Microsoft acquisition deal of...