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During the past few months, as we all watched Microsoft’s dismal attempt to take over Yahoo, a couple of things struck me as strange. First, Microsoft has the ability, money and talent to improve their own search engine and to market it themselves. Second, as each failed bid was reported on the Internet, one started […]

Cuil [pronounced cool] is a new search engine start up company out of Menlo Park, CA., that is taking on Google. The new search engine company claims to have indexed some 120 billion pages,with the added claim they know of over one trillian pages. How about Google? How many pages do they have indexed?
Google remains […]

When I first read the words, ‘Microsoft Ends Bid To Buy Yahoo’, I almost could not believe my eyes. But it has been confirmed and maybe, just maybe that will put an end to a saga that has consumed way to much time for the press, public and bloggers. On any given day, there were […]

It makes one wonder. Should Bill Gates come back to steer the good ship Microsoft? Maybe Microsoft needs a Jerry Yang of Yahoo fame to help out. No matter what your opinion of Microsoft might be, the once mighty corporation is feeling the sting of the Microsoft - Yahoo deal gone sour. In fact we […]

Some time you have to wonder. Do the folks at Google get up in the morning, thinking to themselves “what can we do to aggravate Microsoft today.” Every since Google announced their alignment with Yahoo for an advertising joint effort, Microsoft seems to be floundering in getting a deal to buy Yahoo. Now Google buying […]

Every day brings us a new segment of the Yahoo - Microsoft saga, that has turned into a TV soap opera. We have read about the offers, the rejected offers, some outsider trying to enter into the series and mix it up and take over the Yahoo board and so forth. But what all of […]

It is no surprise that Google is the dominate search ad business on the Internet. In the latest statistics from Efficient Frontier Google showed a 2% growth over last year and a huge 77.4% market share. Also stated in the article were these facts.
Google makes $1.10 for every $1.00 spent, which Yahoo posted a 9 […]

Google and Yahoo have entered into an ad agreement which is under Congressional review in Washington D.C. You must understand that our Congress has nothing better to do with their time than investigate Google and Yahoo. Never mind banks going under, inflation taking off, high gas prices, homes being foreclosed upon and so forth. Congress […]

Yahoo is offering a new search service called BOSS [Build your Own Search Service] which is an open source answer that allows innovation for developers, start-ups and large Internet companies.  Yahoo is touting the fact that users will be able to access all of Yahoo’s features such as relevant algorithms, ranking, indexing and a host […]

What happened to Yahoo? LOL Microsoft has decided to buy semantic search engine Powerset to help to improve its image aa s search rival to Google. In a statement Steve Ballmer has mentioned that search is going to be Microsoft’s number one priority. In the article it states:
By buying Powerset, Microsoft is hoping to close […]