Archive for July, 2009

Yahoo and Bing Gain Market Share

The rumors of the Microsoft/Yahoo partnership have finally realized into a partnership which looks to try and take a bigger piece of the pie that Google dominates. Last year, Yahoo! turned down a $44.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft.  After the deal fell apart, there was still much talk over whether the two companies would [...]

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Images and Search Engine Optimization

If you own a website or a blog, it’s important that you do not overlook the importance of optimizing your images from an SEO perspective. Too often when you can see a source code of a site that will read like this, <img src=”0003436.jpg”>.  If this is how your images are set up on your [...]

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Yahoo Gets A Facelift

Yahoo unveiled their new look on their home page this week.  Yahoo says “This new launch represents the most significant change to our homepage since the company’s inception.”  The problem for Yahoo is that few have seemed to have noticed. As of the time of the writing of this post, the old Yahoo! look is [...]

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Google Wave Makes A Splash

Google created quite a stir in the tech circles with its announcement of the Google Wave this spring.  It really has the potential to change the way we communicate online. It is a real time communication platform that combines aspects of texting, email, instant messaging, blogging and social networks like Facebook.

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Bing Lacks Some Zing

Microsoft’s newest search engine, Bing, has been creating quite a lot of buzz with their commercial blitz as they try to claim a bigger piece of the search engine user’s pie. It is being branded as “the decision engine” with a hoard of television commercials that were funny at first, but quickly became tiresome. Bing [...]

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