If you are based in the UK and are awaiting your Google AdSense payment, you might have to wait a little longer. A Google Groups post from an official Google AdSense representative, Stephanie, said that due to Easter coinciding with...
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If you haven't noticed yet, today we put up our new design. The design is based on more of a 'tabloid' type of theme. Yes, we decided to change our focus and become a more 'edgy news' type of publication....
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According to publishedreports, Microsoft is unlikely to raise its bid for Yahoo. It seems that Microsoft doesn't think Yahoo's recent projected revenues provide any reason to raise purchase price from the original $31 per share offer. The bid included cash as well as stock and the original $44.6 billion buyout price is now valued around $42 billion.
In early March, reports surfaced that the two search players had met to discuss generalities of the proposed acquisition. So far, there has been no second date, and some moves by the two companies have shown potential incompatibilities for the pair. Yahoo joined Google's OpenSocial initiative and Microsoft is engaged in a data portability partnership with 5 social networks.But Microsoft is showing a strong hand as a patient suitor.
Upcoming Q1 revenue reports could provide fodder for either side to defend its stance. But many analysts point to a forthcoming Yahoo shareholders meeting as a pressure point for Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and the board of directors. The meeting must occur within 13 months of the last meeting, which was held June 12, 2007.
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When Google raised concerns over a possible Microsoft-Yahoo merger, it may have just been the pot calling the kettle black. According to new stats released by Attributor, Google's acquisition of DoubleClick gives them a whopping 69% of the online advertising market share. This comes in the wake of news that Google saw 59.2 percent of all US searches in February.
Furthermore, DoubleClick has 48% share of sites with 1 million unique visitors per month, while Google enjoys a whopping 71.38% share of sites with less than 100,000 unique visitors per month.
MSN has a lot of work to do if it wants to catch Google, as Steve Ballmer has declared in recent months. Currently, they only have 9.86% of the total market share. Even adding Yahoo, with an 11.54% market share, they will only come in at 21.4%.
Attributor also shared telling statistics for content distribution. For every article Attributor tracks, there are an average of 20 copies published. 57% of copies do not contain links back to the author, and 64% of copies have ads on them. Most copies are published on sites with less than 1 million unique visitors.
Attributor analyzed 68 million domains for their ad-server crawls and compared it with unique user data from Compete.com.
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Kalena Jordan writes a blog about her concern over an SEM rating site called SEMCompare. She tells us that the Search Marketing Standard magazine has started this site to allow people to write reviews about the search marketing agencies they've...
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The search world was in for a surprise this morning when it was formally announced the Jim Lanzone will replace Steve Berkowitz as Senior Vice President of Microsoft Online Services which includes the Live.com search engine. Berkowitz had previously announced...
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A 24 year-old woman who used a YouTube video to accuse 3 male youths of raping her has been arrested by Scotland Yard after it was determined the video was a scam and the woman is now charged with suspicion of underage sex and perverting the course of justice.
YouTube had been criticized for allowing the video to be published and how long it took them to get it down.
Two of the boys accused were 16 and one was 14, their arrest for rape had been dismissed and no further action will be taken, according to the UK Sun.
In the video the woman looked like she was drugged and then assaulted, the Sun stated.
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