The newly-relaunched Technorati exposes
a weakness in Google’s armor. I just tried a bunch of searches.
Technorati does “Live” search MUCH MUCH better than Microsoft and even
better than Google’s Blog Search. Read the rest of this entry »
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Technorati Tags: technorati beat google, google’s blog search, live.com, google, business, blog, search engines, yahoo, microsoft
One of the drawbacks of Yahoo!’s business directory in the past has been that your site’s directory description gets used as your site’s description in the SERPs.
Why is this a problem? Because it can kill your click-through
traffic. Those descriptions are assigned by directory editors, and
aren’t necessarily written to generate the most click-through traffic
in the SERPs. Webmasters would rather have more control over what shows
up in those search results and they were getting upset when they paid big money to be listed in Yahoo!’s directory, only to have there description of their Website entry in the search results changed. Read the rest of this entry »
« yahoo « Technorati Tags: noydir tag, noodp tag, meta name, yahoo!’s business directory, html code, google, web, business, money, yahoo
The company’s money-losing MSN online division has been stuck in third place
in Internet search for some time. And it was starting to look like it
was going to remain an also-ran for the foreseeable future.
Microsoft lost out to Google (GOOG) in the bidding war for
DoubleClick. Madison Avenue ad agency (WPPGY) wound up scooping up 24/7
Real Media (TFSM), another company that Microsoft was said to be
pursuing. And those merger talks with Yahoo (YHOO) don’t appear to be
going anywhere. Read the rest of this entry »
« yahoo « Technorati Tags: microsoft, online advertising, google, business, media, yahoo
Microsoft wants to aquire Yahoo for 50 billion $. Probably the largest aquisition in IT history .
Software maker Microsoft Corp. asked search engine operator Yahoo Inc. to re-enter formal negotiations for an acquisition that could be worth $50 billion, the New York Post reported on Friday. Read the rest of this entry »
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