Posts Tagged ‘Yahoo Takeover’
Yahoo! in Microsoft’s sites again
Microsoft still seems determined to swallow up Yahoo!, amid talks that the world’s largest software maker is waiting to strike up a deal when Yahoo! appoints a new CEO.
This news comes shortly after Microsoft snapped up a senior member of Yahoo! (Dr Qi Lu) to head up the Online Services Group.
The deal would certainly be in the interest of Yahoo! Inc shareholders, who would be devastated over the substantial write-down of their shares after they dropped 56% from a high of $USD 30.00 in February 2008, when Microsoft first made the proposition to buyout Yahoo! in effort to have a combined marketshare of approximately 30% of the search business to pose a formidable force against the dominant Google Inc.
Microsoft needs to take some drastic measures to improve it’s search business and lift it’s market share from approximately 8.5%, or risks falling by the wayside as a minor search engine with a small enthusiast following, the likes of Lycos and Altavista.
There are still rumours circulating to suggest that Microsoft is soon going to re-badge it’s Live service to the new name of “Kumo” as reported by SearchNews early last month, and a spokesperson from Microsoft revealed that Live Search “hasn’t made it (live.com) stand for something that consumers have connected to”.
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Happy New Year - Search News 2009
Welcome to 2009!
2008 was a tremendous year in search engine news, and having only launched 4 months ago, searchnews.net.au is sitting at a humble page rank of 1 (attained within 5 weeks), delivering articles to hundreds of new visitors each month, and being crawled by the Google Spider spider in excess of
30 times per day, proving that fresh content is a core component of increasing your visibility in the search engines.
Here is a quick recap of some of the biggest news articles from 2008, hand-picked by our staff:
Google Android is launched, a Mobile Phone Operating System
Google Creates Google Chrome, a new Web Browser from Google
Cuil, a new search engine is launched by a Google ex-pat
Microsoft attempts Yahoo Takeover
We’re sure that 2009 will be even more exciting than last year, and search news will be bringing you the latest and greatest updates related to Search Engine Companies, Online Marketing & Pay Per Click Advertising, SEO and more.