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Yahoo is on sale

This post has been published on 27 Oct 2011 in Internet

After CEO Carol Bartz has been brutally fired from the company, Yahoo! decline has definitely become more prominent than ever. Their profit share recorded a loss of 24%, which in numbers correspond to 1,22 billions (according to WSJ). Google is ready to buy, but other competitors are on his way. Microsoft, which attempted to buy the Sunnivale Company again in 2008 and Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce search engine whose 40% of shares are held by Yahoo. It is unlikely Google can buy Yahoo!, especially considering Google is already under fire by the both the American and European antitrust for a dominance position. What will be the real advantage for Google in such a deal? Google won’t be able to take over on the search engine side, as Microsoft has a deal for the next 9 year to use Yahoo! technology as well as power their search results that will be provided by Bing data centers. [...]

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Google try again with realtime search?

This post has been published on 21 Oct 2011 in SEO

Earlier this year, Google acquired the patents of a real time search engine started in 2009 called Wowd. Wowd works in a different way to the other search engines, and focuses on identifying new trends, news, and popular topics and pages on the Internet using a browser plugin… or at least this is what it is was used to do. Infact, entering into Wowd web site, it is now possible to read “the team decided to pursue new opportunities”. Google has been following where you browse and what links you click on as part of their search engine service in order to shape their result (personalized search). But with the Wowd approach it appears possible to look at those clicks to find new and popular pages on the Web.

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Is Google breaking the Web?

This post has been published on 20 Oct 2011 in SEO

A big announcement by the Google Search team has made on the 18th of October 2011: Google is breaking the web. Well, the announcement wasn’t exactly this; but by reporting that a signed-in user once visiting your site from an organic Google search, will continue to be recognized as a Google “organic” visitor but without passing the query terms, I bet you will agree with my initial statement.

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