Google Suggest
Posted on August 26, 2008 - Filed Under Cuil, Google Suggest, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
If you have used the Google Toolbar you have already experienced Google Suggest, the search helper that drops down a list of possible searches as you begin typing your search terms. The more you type, the more refined the suggestions become, of course.
Read More..>>Google Search Growing
Posted on July 15, 2008 - Filed Under Google, Internet, Microsoft, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
The climb continues. Google accounted for over 69% of all U.S. Internet searches in June of 2008, that according to new data from Hitwise. What’s even more unbelievable is that even at that level,
Read More..>>Yahoo 2.0
Posted on July 7, 2008 - Filed Under Facebook, Google, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
It’s official today that MyYahoo is being rolled out to all users after more than a year in private beta. MyYahoo is by far the largest player of all start pages and there are a lot of them out there
Read More..>>What’s behind….
Posted on July 1, 2008 - Filed Under Adobe, Google, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
…all those flash files? Adobe has announced it is providing optimized Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo to help them better index dynamic content and applications that include the Shockwave Flash file (SWF) format.
This assistance is to help the search engine spiders be able to find and index SWF content, including items such […]
Yahoo Exodus
Posted on June 23, 2008 - Filed Under Merger News, Microsoft, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
An interesting undercurrent has been taking place at Yahoo, beginning even before Microsoft’s offer to buy was made and eventually rejected.
The numbers of executives leaving since January 2007 has grown to well over a hundred at last count. Executives, mind you.
Yahoo-less Email
Posted on June 19, 2008 - Filed Under Email, Tech News, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
For the first time, Yahoo has added new email domains to its long-standing Yahoo.com, which with more than 260 million subscribers has forced people to use hard-to-remember names when signing up for an account.
So if you signed up for a Yahoo account and now have the good fortune of being known as TomSmith123_w1@Yahoo.com, there’s […]
The New Leader is…
Posted on May 19, 2008 - Filed Under Google, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
Google has passed Yahoo to become the most popular Web site in the US, according to rankings by the number of unique visitors on a monthly basis.
Google Inc. has been the leader in searches for some time, but has been behind Yahoo when counting other services such as e-mail and photo sharing.
Not Over After All?
Posted on May 5, 2008 - Filed Under Merger News, Microsoft, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang talked to the press Monday, opening the door to further negotiations if Microsoft is willing to show him the money, or what he considers the appropriate price.
Microsoft’s final bid was $33 and Yahoo held out for $37, or something close to that number, but Ballmer decided on Saturday not to continue […]
Death Knell
Posted on May 4, 2008 - Filed Under Google, Merger News, Microsoft, Yahoo | 1 Comment
Or death nail…..as in the ‘nail in the coffin’. That describes the final decision rendered this weekend by Microsoft as they sent Yahoo a letter detailing their reasons for no longer pursuing a merger.
That’s right. It’s over. The merger is off. As we blogged on 4/30, there were just too many dollars separating the […]
Merger Update
Posted on April 30, 2008 - Filed Under Merger News, Microsoft, Yahoo | Leave a Comment
Microsoft’s board met today to discuss its stand-off with Yahoo over its takeover offer, but failed to reach a decision on what to do next.The board is still considering whether to adopt a hostile approach and nominate a proxy slate of directors to replace the existing board, place a bigger offer on the table, or […]
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