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Microsoft & Yahoo! Announcement….

Microsoft and Yahoo! have finally made some progress on the partnership they’ve been working on for years. It’s a 10 year deal and was announced on Wednesday. Talk is this deal pits Yahoo! and Microsoft against Google in a real way that they hope will take some of that coveted Google market share. Microsoft will [...]

Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang Steps Down

It was announced today that Yang would step down as CEO. “When the board asked me to become CEO and lead the transformation of the company, I did so because it was important to re-envision the business for a different era to drive more effective growth,” said Yang in a statement. “Having set Yahoo! on [...]

Flash Is Now More SEO Friendly

Adobe recently announced that they are providing: download wall street: money never sleeps full “optimized Adobe® Flash® Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines.” From the official Adobe announcement: “Until now it has been extremely [...]

Yahoo Algo Update

A couple days ago Yahoo announced they are rolling out some changes to their crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms.   The update was expected to be completed fairly quickly. the social network movie part Did you notice any changes?

Search Engine Market Share

Here are the March 2008 numbers according to 4 different sources: Google Hitwise – 67.25% Compete – 69.4% comScore – 59.2% Nielsen – 58.7% Yahoo just go with it trailer movie part 1 Hitwise – 20.29% Compete – 14.8% comScore – 21.3% Nielsen – 18.1% MSN Nielsen – 4.1% Ask Hitwise – 4.09% Compete – 3.7% [...]

Yahoo says 'No' to Microsoft

“The board believes that Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500)’s proposal substantially undervalues Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500). including our global brand, large worldwide audience, significant recent investments in advertising platforms and future growth prospects, free cash flow and earnings potential, as well as our substantial unconsolidated investments,” said a statement by Yahoo. where can i download the last [...]

Search Shake Up: Microsoft Makes Yahoo An Offer

Microsoft Corp. made an unsolicited $44.6 billion cash and stock bid for Yahoo on Friday. movie iron man A deal that will shake up the competitive and lucrative market for Internet search, if it goes through. juno the film in hd Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, called the move the “next major milestone” for the [...]

Press Release Tips

Press releases are a great way to generate publicity, drive traffic and boost search engine rankings. The key to a successful press release is to clearly define its purpose. More consumers than ever are reading press releases online and consumers may be interested in a topic that the media may not be.  So, there are [...]

The Power of the Search Engines

Here’s a perfect example of the power of the engines…. Last week The New York Times announced that they’re opening “Times Select” to everyone – which means you don’t need a subscription for access.  The Times said that many more readers started coming to the site from search engines and links on other sites instead [...]