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Yahoo Shareholders Transfer $2.9 Billion To Microsoft Shareholders
Anyone wondering who got the better deal today (my detailed thoughts later) need only look at the stock movements of Yahoo and Microsoft. Yahoo dipped 12.08% to $15.14, knocking $2.91 billion off their market cap. Microsoft gained 1.41% to $23.80, adding…$2.94 billion to their market cap. Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo Got Binged
Today, Yahoo died as a search engine. If the deal with Microsoft is approved, what will replace it will be Bing, the search engine that Microsoft launched only two months ago. Within a few months time, Microsoft will go from owning 8 percent of the U.S. search market to 28 percent (comScore). That is still less than half of Google’s 65 percent, but it could give Microsoft a fighting chance in the search wars against Google. Read the rest of this entry »
Bartz On Bing Search Deal: “Everyone Wants A Real Alternative.” (Live Notes)
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles, Yahoo, microsoft on July 29th, 2009
Microsoft and Yahoo announced their search partnership this morning. In a nutshell, Microsoft will power search technology for both companies, while Yahoo will take over ad sales. Here are my notes from this morning’s Yahoo-Microsoft conference call (I’ve bolded parts for emphasis): Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal: The Most Important Facts (And Some Opinion)
Now that the search deal struck between Microsoft and Yahoo has been officially confirmed by both companies, by means of a press release and a website dubbed ChoiceValueInnovation.com, let’s take a step back and analyze the most important tidbits from the announcement:
As expected, Microsoft will power Yahoo Search while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ advertisers. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal: The Official Press Release
Five Best Instant Messengers [Hive Five]
Instant messaging has become so ubiquitous, an entire generation of internet users is probably unaware there was ever life without it. Check out the following five most popular instant messengers to to help you communicate across networks and the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo to Shut Down GeoCities This Fall
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles, Yahoo on July 11th, 2009
GeoCities web hosting has been around since the very early days of the internet and while it’s not widely used anymore, it’s name still arouses a fond memory in the minds of early adopters. Every once in awhile, a long-dead GeoCities site will even crop up in search results. Yahoo, the current owner of GeoCities, has decided to finally put the sites and the entire service to rest, announcing that GeoCities will cease to function on October 26, 2009.
Launched in 1994 in the early days of the web, GeoCities offered a great place for aspiring webmasters to launch websites. What we thought was so cool back then would hardly suffice today with the all of the modern day’s multimedia and interactive aspects of websites eating up the minuscule amounts of storage and bandwidth that GeoCities offered. It’ll be a sad day nonetheless, as the once popular web host of our youth ceases to exist.
Yahoo purchased the business in the late 1990’s for $3.6, when scrolling HTML marquees were still considered cool (ha!). We’re pretty sure that investment did not pan out, as web designers began to create more dynamic sites and demand on resources increased. So in a last ditch attempt to squeeze something out of GeoCities, Yahoo is now encouraging those that still use it (does anyone really use it anymore?!) to upgrade to Yahoo! Hosting.
I suppose that after October, if you want to reminisce about the good ol’ GeoCities days, you can take a trip down memory lane and visit archive.org.
Bing Appears Ready To Grab Yahoo’s Search Ranking
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles, Yahoo on July 10th, 2009
Microsoft’s Bing search engine overtook Yahoo in the United States on Thursday, according to StatCounter. The last time Bing overtook Yahoo on a single day was on June 4, shortly after its launch, the Dublin-based Web analytics firm said.
Bing grabbed 12.9 percent of the U.S. market versus Yahoo’s 10.15 percent share, but both are still well behind market leader Google at 74.99 percent, reported StatCounter, which bases its research on an analysis of 1.316 billion search-engine referring clicks — including 336 million from the U.S.
“While (Bing’s) lead over Yahoo may not last into next week, our data suggests that it is slowly but surely closing the gap,” said StatCounter CEO Aodhan Cullen.
At Google’s Expense
StatCounter reported earlier this month that Bing helped Microsoft increase its share of the U.S. search market by one percentage point during June. Overall, Microsoft held an 8.23 percent share last month, trailing far behind Google (78.48 percent) and Yahoo (11.04 percent).
Cullen said the latest data indicate Bing’s success is coming at Google’s expense. “We can see that Bing is gaining very slowly, but it is gaining, and the data is almost a mirror image in that when Bing goes up, Google goes down and vice versa,” Cullen said. “But Yahoo remains very steady — it’s not losing any share.”
Other recent reports suggest that Google users in particular seem to be looking for a viable alternative to the current search-engine market leader.
“In the first week following the announcement of brand Bing — but still before the official June 1 launch — 97 percent of visitors to Bing.com overlapped with Google, compared with only 37 percent and two percent overlap with Yahoo and AOL, respectively,” said Taylor Holsinger at Web analytics firm Compete.com. “During launch week, the dramatically larger overlap of Bing Googlers continued, relative…
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Bing Appears Ready To Grab Yahoo’s Search Ranking