Articles tagged with 'Yahoo'

Come June 1st 2007, many Google AdSense publishers’ account will be disabled. Specifically, those that are of ‘Made For AdSense’ (MFA) or ‘arbitrage publisher’ nature. This news follows numerous reports of publishers receiving notices from Google regarding the disabling of their account, citing the reason as their use of AdSense is an unsuitable business model. The ‘unsuitable business model’ being generally understood as MFA sites.

So a little background story here for the uninitiated. Arbitrage is defined as “The simultaneous purchase and sale of similar commodities to take advantage of price discrepancies between markets”.

Got the crazy idea of searching the word ’search’ on 6 popular search engine for kicks. What I found out was quite interesting. Through the pointless research I found out that Live Search actually determines your country of origin by the browser language instead of your IP (like Google). Worse, the results are tuned to your supposedly country of origin whether or not you choose it. To switch to the default version, change the language setting to ‘English US’.

Anyway, here are the search engines in alphabetical order along with their top 10 results. Comments and points are given based on the results returned for the word ’search’ so it might not accurately reflect the actual state of the engines.

Online news sites have been ablaze with rumors of Microsoft’s intention to acquire Yahoo! (henceforth referred to as Yahoo without the exclamation). It seems that Yahoo has been approached again by Microsoft to enter into acquisition talks. This follows numerous inconclusive talks in the past between the two parties. Microsoft is rather desperate this time, offering up to a (reportedly) sum of $50 billion for the deal to go forward.

Experts have been hinting otherwise, as the takeover and integration process would be a massive task.Imagine all the overlapping services that have to be streamlined. This is not made easier by the fact that Yahoo and Microsoft have been actively copying each other since forever.

The move didn’t came out as a surprise, given the latest purchase of major online advertising company DoubleClick by Google which might have slightly offset Microsoft’s world domination plan. A more plausible explanation would be a joint partnership on search and advertising in order to fight evenly with Google. Google currently leads search and advertising market followed by Yahoo and Microsoft. Microsoft’s struggle against Google has been pretty futile so a partner in crime might help out a bit.

After the dust settled, we now know that the latest episode of talks ended up inconclusive again. Too bad, I was looking forward to the result of this unholy union.

(from TechCrunch)

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