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AOL’s $850 million (cash) acquisition of the Bebo social networking site comes to surprise for many, despite rumours that Bebo was looking for a buyer. After all, rumours of mergers and acquisitions fly around the Internet everyday. Bebo had however already partnered with AOL in integrating the AIM messenger client with its service.
Although [...]

After a nice little run by black-hat and grey-hat SEOs, Yahoo’s free photo hosting website Flickr has begun to take a stand. In the past week, Flickr has started to apply the nofollow attribute to comments on photos and even to links from photo descriptions.
Prior to this change, blackhats and greyhats had two main ways [...]

It’s official. Microsoft’s $44.6 billion offer (in both cash and stock) for Yahoo has been rejected. This bid has caused a great stir in the search community as well as the larger business world in general.
Google tried to derail the possible Yahoo takeover by citing anti-trust concerns. Okay, Microsoft is well known for its anti-trust [...]

Nielsen Online’s December search share numbers have been sending small ripples through the search marketing world. According to Nielsen, Microsoft’s Live Search was the only of the “big three” search engines to increase its market share in December, from 12% to 13.8% for queries performed in the United States.
On the other hand, Yahoo and Google [...]

Earlier this week, Hitwise released the latest figures of October’s search engine searches, based on a sample of ten million Internet users in the United States. The results are summarized below.
Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engines

October 2007

October 2006

Google

64.5%

60.9%

Yahoo

21.6%

22.3%

MSN / Live Search

7.4%

10.7%

Ask

4.8%

4.3%

The remaining 1.7% of searches is shared among 49 other search engines in [...]