We all know why Microsoft wanted to buy Yahoo!…In few words to beat the Big G. Combining both search engine (MSN & Yahoo!) Microsft will have a little bit more than Google in the market search. Even Microsoft now is trying to create new “features” and see if they can grow the market search [...]

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Did you get slapped by Google lately? With this news you will be happy because this time Facebook Slapped Google. Facebook blocks Google’s Friend Connect:
The industry momentum for data portability brotherhood hit a bump on Thursday when Facebook blocked Google’s Friend Connect service from accessing Facebook members’ data.
Friend Connect violates Facebook’s terms of [...]

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The Last time I posted about a rumor that said that Google Rumors: Google PageRank To Be Reset and many other points. Something happened “similar” to those rumors. Google started to decrease the pagerank of the blogs, some of them got penalized because using X programs that pays blogger to post reviews/links.
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Microsoft said Saturday that it was abandoning its blockbuster bid to acquire Yahoo after the two companies could not agree on a price.
The breakdown in the talks followed a meeting on Saturday morning in Seattle between Microsoft’s chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, and Yahoo’s chief and co-founder, Jerry Yang, according to a person briefed on [...]

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The suit claims Google doesn’t inform advertisers that if they leave the content bid CPC input blank, Google will use the advertiser’s CPC bid for clicks occurring on the content network.
A lawsuit filed against Google on Tuesday alleges that Google has been defrauding its AdWords customers by charging them for ads they don’t want.
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This news is taken from CNN Money:
Google Inc. (GOOG) received 67% of all U.S. Internet searches during the four weeks ended March 29, according to information service Hitwise.
Google received 64% of all U.S. Internet searches in the same period a year earlier.
Yahoo Inc.’s (YHOO) search engine received 20% of U.S. Web searches in the [...]

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Determine Theme Relevance is a major factor when you are SEO your site. Let’s say if you have a blog about “X widget” and then after so many years you want to write something that is off-topic and is not related to your theme “X widget”. Does search engines will put your blog post [...]

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