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It is hard to believe that it has been over two years since Microsoft and Yahoo! starting talking merger, buyout, partnerships, and so forth. This last announcement by the CEOs of both companies, with champagne toasting, back slapping, and stock selling to be the real thing. But it appears that there are some minor issues [...]

When Microsoft and Yahoo! reached a deal recently there were glowing accolades that Yahoo! would now be free to do its real business, which was not search. The company CEO claimed that Yahoo! would be free to explore its other development options. But behind the scenes all was not well in Yahoo! land.
According to one [...]

This explains why it is so hard for consumers to figure out which corporate giant is telling the truth sometimes. Back in September, 2008, Yahoo! was recommending that users switch over to Firefox 3, because it was safer:
A tipster yesterday sent us a screen shot of Yahoo’s front page running on Internet Explorer with a [...]

The latest search numbers are out which shows that Google still has a commanding lead over the alliance of Microsoft and Yahoo, known as MicroHoo. Google’s number show that the company commands a whopping 65% of the market with MicroHoo trailing with 28%. The report also indicates that Google commands a user loyalty which continues [...]

I had to scratch my head when I first read this statement from the head boss of Yahoo saying the company was not a search company. Well I believe some of us may differ from this statement for several reasons. When Yahoo first became available to the masses, everyone I know used it to do [...]

OK. I know most of us are already tired of hearing about the Microsoft - Yahoo deal, but the statements made by the CEO of Yahoo are just to good to pass up. In a morning Yahoo blog posting the CEO of Yahoo, Carol Bartz, made several blog entries that beg to ask the question. [...]

There is an old school doctrine that in business market share is everything in order to be considered successful. In certain circumstances this may be true. But in the deal that has been struck by Microsoft and Yahoo, which gives an estimated 30% market share to Microsoft’s Bing, this will not be enough. Here’s why.
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Here we go again. The DOJ is looking at Google as a monopoly, just like they did once before when they looked at Microsoft. But is Google really a monopoly if people like their stuff better than the competitions? This is what really needs to be looked at. Not just a dictionary term of what [...]

If these numbers are accurate they say volumes about how we users rely on Google to be our search preference. During the week that Bing launched, Google’s market share shrank from 78.72% to a whopping down turn of 78.48%. Before Microsoft released Bing their market share was a dismal 7.81% to a stunning 8.23%. Much [...]

As millions of users went to the Internet to find out more information about Michael Jackson, Google had a major spike in traffic, which at first appeared to be an attack. The search giant stated that Google News was unavailable to some users during this time.
A warning flashed to some user which stated:
“We’re sorry, but [...]

The one thing I love about the Internet is how it changes almost on a daily basis. The once darling of the Internet, MySpace, appears to be in worse shape than first thought. Though new executives have been brought in to whip things into shape, MySpace could be facing the same problems that have plagued [...]

Google is releasing new technology that can better understand your associations and concepts associated with your search. Google is also expanding the list of related searches as well. On their blog site, they further explain the new search results as:

Starting today, we’re deploying a new technology that can better understand associations and concepts related to [...]

Microsoft is currently testing a new search engine called Kumo to replace their failing Live Search. The testing is currently being tested internally by Microsoft employees, before going public. Microsoft has struggled to get their search vehicle to be used by the public, and is currently in third place behind Google and Yahoo. There is [...]

Remember Yahoo? They are the original company that started the entire search thing on the Internet. They are also the company that Microsoft threatens to buy weekly. Now with a new CEO at the helm they are now getting serious and have decided to become a leader once again. But is it too late? I [...]

The once darling of the Internet search crowd is in the process of trying to reinvent itself with a new open strategy plan. Most of Yahoo’s pruducts such as mail, toolbar and media will receive a facelift as well as other added features. Yahoo appears to be trying to pull itself up by its boot [...]

ComScore has released their latest statitics for the month of November, 2008 and Google remains the king of all search engines. This is not a major surprise, but what is surprising is that Microsoft still remains in the number 3 position at a lowly 8.5% of all searches. Even though Microsoft has adpoted a pay [...]

Yahoo had started sniffing around seeking a possible bid from Microsoft. It seems that the search company hasn’t fared very well this past year, and selling out was now an option. Only one small problem. Microsoft has said no to Yahoo and no to CEO Yang.
Microsoft had originally offered to buy Yahoo at $33 a [...]

Yahoo has introduced their Inquisitor search assistant to both Internet Explorer 7 and 8 as well as Firefox 2 and 3. The Inquisitor originally was for Safari only but popular demand made Yahoo add this feature to other browsers as well. Over at the Yahoo Search Blog they state:
We’ve also included a bookmark-based retrieval feature [...]

Here we go again. With the stock market in a roller coaster ride, and with Yahoo trying to hang in there, it appears we could be in another Microsoft-Yahoo head butting contest once again. Depending on which rumors you choose to believe, Yahoo may be cutting their payroll by saying good bye to some 3,000 [...]

During the past month or so, there seems to be threats of some type of an investigation being requested, to investigate the Google-Yahoo deal. Hold it right there. This is a total crock.
We have a government in which no one even saw this housing and mortgage mess coming.  A government that employees people to oversee [...]