Yahoo Japan Switches To Google, Microsoft Calls It ‘Anti-Competitive’
AllThingsD reported that the Softbank majority owned Yahoo Japan has decided to replace Yahoo Search (soon Yahoo-Bing) with Google. Yahoo owns a minority stake in Yahoo Japan and so can’t control or block the decision.
According to a statement released by Yahoo it will “support” the deal as it is contractually bound to do:
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Weekly Wrap-up: Not on Facebook, Google Drive and Path’s Privacy Issues
February 11, 2012 - 8:55 am
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Alicia Eler explores the “Not On Facebook” movement. Jon Mitchell explains why Google Drive won’t be a Dropbox clone. Path uploads your entire address book to their servers without permission. All of this and more in the ReadWriteWeb Weekly Wrap-up. After the jump you’ll find more of this week’s top news stories on some of [...]
Google Readying Google Drive, Dropbox-Like Cloud Storage
February 11, 2012 - 8:28 am
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Google is readying a Dropbox-like service and will soon enter the cloud computing storage market. The Google Drive is expected to allow users to store documents, photos and videos on the cloud and make them accessible from any connected device. View full post on Search Engine Watch – Latest
Microsoft Dynamics Tries to Ease Enterprise Customers Onto the Cloud
February 10, 2012 - 9:55 pm
Tags: cloud, Customers, Dynamics, Ease, Enterprise, Microsoft, onto, Tries
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The Next Web is having “a chuckle” at the expense of customers Microsoft is catering to with its enterprise resource planning products. And after spending an hour talking with Fred Studer, general manager of Microsoft Dynamics, and Microsoft Business Solutions Technical Fellow Mike Ehrenberg Thursday, we can say it’s probably an unfair chuckle at both [...]
Microsoft Sides with Apple in FRAND Licensing Fracas
February 10, 2012 - 8:55 pm
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The term “reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing” or “RAND” (which may or may not include the “F” for “fair,” depending on one’s whim) was evidently coined long before any group of people came to a mutual decision upon what constituted “reasonable.” At any rate, the debate over what’s reasonable and what’s “F” has now gone full-throttle, [...]
Google Places Can Greatly Help Boost Agents’ Real Estate SEO Marketing Efforts … – SBWire (press release)
February 10, 2012 - 6:26 pm
Tags: Agents, Boost, Efforts, Estate, Google, Greatly, Help, Marketing, places, Press, Real, Release, SBWire
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Google Places Can Greatly Help Boost Agents' Real Estate SEO Marketing Efforts …SBWire (press release)Harrisburg, PA — (SBWIRE) — 02/10/2012 — One advantage to being a local business owner is the ability to use Google Places for real estate SEO marketing. Instead of spending countless hours working on building rankings for niche specific keywords, …and [...]
Google AdWords Gets Shared Lists To Eliminate Duplicate Data Entry
February 10, 2012 - 4:09 pm
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Sick of inputting the same things across multiple campaigns in Google AdWords? Yeah, Google suspected that was the case. Following the same philosophy that spawned the introduction of negative keyword lists in January of last year, Google has added placement exclusion lists and list suggestions…. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article. View [...]
Yahoo Search Engine Market Share Slips in January 2012
February 10, 2012 - 3:28 pm
Tags: 2012, engine, January, Market, Search, Share, Slips, Yahoo
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A month after Bing surpassed Yahoo to became the No. 2 search engine in the U.S., Yahoo’s search share continued to decline in the New Year, according to comScore. Meanwhile, Google climbed past a 66 percent share of the search market. View full post on Search Engine Watch – Latest
How to Analyze Google Analytics (not provided) Data – SEOmoz (blog)
February 10, 2012 - 3:26 pm
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How to Analyze Google Analytics (not provided) DataSEOmoz (blog)If you don't like this kind of uncertainty in a career, then maybe SEO isn't for you. However, if you love a challenge and finding creative ways to overcome obstacles, read on. One of the most immediate problems that the Google update caused was the …Google Places [...]
Craig Silverstein, Larry & Sergey’s First Hire, Quits Google
February 10, 2012 - 1:29 pm
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Craig Silverstein, the first employee hired by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, is leaving the company. Silverstein, who helped build the Google search engine, met Page and Brin while the three attended Stanford. View full post on Search Engine Watch – Latest
Google Retires Drop-Down Menu, Black Navigation Bar Returns
February 10, 2012 - 12:28 pm
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Google’s drop-down menu, which was introduced in late November as part of the “next stage” of its massive redesign, is history. Google will revert to an updated version of the black navigation bar that began appearing ahead of the launch of Google+. View full post on Search Engine Watch – Latest