There will be a mean average of link acquisition and decay with "normal" sites in the index. If something malicious pops up, deal with it and make notes of dates and contact attempts. It wouldn't hurt to keep a tinfoil hat handy as well… Look no...
Speculation that Google plans on creating an electronic book reader were given more fuel with the company's acquisition of eBook Technologies - "a company that specializes in both hardware and content distribution for electronic readers,"
Google's Acquisition of Zetawire brings Electronic Wallets Nearer - SEO by the Sea MySpace Renews Google Search Deal, Throws Display Into Mix - ClickZ Google, Jordan seal $10 million deal - Associated Press
Japan Approves Yahoo-Google Search Deal, Microsoft Cries Foul by Frank Watson Google announced the acquisition of England's Phonetic Arts, a company specializing in speech algorithms, founded four years ago.
Could Google Acquisition of ITA Kill Online Travel Sales Industry By Frank Watson Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, sued 11 corporations, including Google/YouTube, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, and AOL, claiming they built their businesses off of...
Quick reminder: earlier this year, Yahoo has been rumoured to be planning to buy Foursquare but the acquisition ended up being that of Indonesia's equivalent, called Koprol. Many elements have been pointing recently to a shift in Yahoo's strategy...
Content is undoubtedly part of Yahoo's core strategy -- even more some with their acquisition of Associated Content -- and one of the main ways visitors get to this content is via search. This could vary significantly by country; in some, Bing...
The spread is consistent with Yahoo's expansion strategy in Asia, as illustrated by their Nokia deal and Koprol acquisition back in May. Total traffic acquisition costs rose to $473 million in the quarter from $436 in the second quarter of 2009.
At the same time, this acquisition of Metaweb and its Freebase also looks like another element of Google's effort to play in Facebook's social league. As Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo forge ahead with their Search Alliance integration, Google is also...
being the leader in search to former CEO Jerry Yang passing up a Microsoft acquisition offer to an attempted takeover by Carl Icahn. In 2009 a new CEO, Carol Bartz took over and a search deal with Microsoft was struck.
A source familiar with the matter said there are currently no talks about an Ask.com acquisition or spinoff. It would be a nice cherry on top of the deal struck with Yahoo! The media took off with the comments as if they were new and a deal was...
Investor Carl Icahn, who stirred up investors during the Microsoft acquisition attempt, quit Yahoo! Now, there's a pending search deal with Microsoft, and Yahoo! failed to accept Microsoft's offer to fully acquire the Sunnyvale-based Internet...
It's So On: Facebook Rolls Out Live Feed Search to All Users, Includes Real-Time Updates Posted by Nathania Johnson Aug 11, 2009 Just hours after announcing its acquisition of FriendFeed, Facebook came out with more big news: it's rolling out its...
Microsoft had picked up Razorfish (then known as Avenue A | Razorfish) as part of its 2007 acquisition of aQuantive. Acquisio Acquires Landing Page Maker Emovendo Posted by Nathania Johnson Aug 10, 2009 Acquisio, a provider of paid search...
Conversion Optimizer allows advertisers to bid on a CPA (cost-per-acquisition) basis. Bing has some pretty cool travel search tools to help you get a great deal. It was a heated event between Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!
is known for being pretty open, which was a major reasons that many thought last year's Microsoft acquisition offer was a bad idea. deal is what will happen to Yahoo! But the deal is just too new to know how it will affect YDN's search offerings.
from being bought by Microsoft's initial acquisition offer. now that Microsoft sealed the deal, unless it unravels in an antitrust investigation (wink, wink). Last year, Google backed out of a deal with Yahoo!
Google Completes DoubleClick Acquisition with EU Approval Even though Google announced the DoubleClick acquisition in 2007 and it was approved by US regulators late last year, the deal wasn't finalized until EU approval was gained earlier this...
One man (that would be me) can only hope any acquisition would require both parties sitting down to discuss strategic integration of tangible assets along with intangibles like the plethora of talent in both organizations.
Sure, we can second-guess the Microsoft acquisition and argue (as I have many times) that the deal simply came down a battle of egos, but that's not how the world should remember this chief executive.
