Microsoft to add photo sharing and Web-based hosted storage to live June 27, 2007
Category : SEO News, SEO News for Mobile , add a commentIn an effort to bolster the flagging Microsoft Live service offering and to compete with existing Image services from Google and Yahoo, Microsoft will is BETA testing photo sharing and free web based folder file sharing.
Beta testers are being given 500 megabytes of online storage. Though they can share files with anyone they wish, people who are invited to use a shared folder have to sign up for a Windows Live ID for authentication, said Brian Hall, general manager of the Windows Live business group.
"This is the second generation" of Windows Live, said Hall.
If they could just improve Live search they might be on the right track, as it is if they did not have the install base of windows users pointing traffic to Live search, they would be nowhere.
Yahoo makes push into mobile search with Yahoo oneSearch June 22, 2007
Category : SEO News, SEO News for Mobile , add a commentYahoo is in the process of upgrading its Yahoo mobile website Yahoo mobile Go, to version 2.0, in an effort to grab more of the emerging mobile Internet / search market.
Yahoo mobile go will offer mobile maps, oneSearch, Yahoo Mail, users will be able to open many common attachments, including Word, Excel and PDF files, end news content formatted for mobile devices.
They have also signed deals with 6 Asian mobile carriers; Asia has one of the fastest growing mobile market in the world.
With the introduction of new phones like iPhone and faster telecoms networks, it is widely viewed that 2007 will see a large growth in mobile internet use.
 Tags: Yahoo mobile go, oneSearch, mobile
Myspace to join Yahoo? June 20, 2007
Category : SEO News , 109 commentsIt has been reported today 6/20/07 that Newscorp the owner of Myspace is contemplating selling Myspace to yahoo for 25% of Yahoos shares. No news as yet whether Yahoo would be open to this.
It does underscore the need for Yahoo to do something to gain momentum and market share in its social networking, and search marketing offerings.
Tags: Yahoo, Myspace, News corpThe ball is in Yahoos court, as it has been for some years now. Â
Yahoo CEO Terry Semel quits June 19, 2007
Category : SEO News, SEO News for Mobile , 107 commentsIn a move that must come as a relief for Yahoo shareholders, Terry Semel resigns as Yahoos CEO. This followed a lackluster couple of years where Yahoos share price had stagnated and Google shares rocketed
Semel was reportedly one of the highest paid executives in the US with stock options running into the many many tens of millions per anum.
Tags: Yahoo, Terry SemelLets be honest Semel typified the lazy scumbag exec who robs the shareholders having the balls to pay himself hundreds of millions while the stock stagnates
Google increases search market share June 7, 2007
Category : SEO News, SEO News for Mobile , 1 comment so farAccording to a report released by ComScor Google has increased its searxh market share to a commanding 67% of all searches, Yahoo has dropped to less then 20%, Microsoft has slipped to less then 10% market share.
My view: Expect Microsoft to buy Yahoo soon, they have no chance of gaining market share otherwise
Chinese search giant Baidu enters European market June 6, 2007
Category : SEO News, SEO News for Mobile , add a commentChiniese web search giant Baidu  plans on officially entering the European market.
Founder and general manager Peter Ufkes announced today. “The advertising rates in the search engine world are much too high”, Ufkes explains his initiative. “This is mainly due to the dominant position of Google. We want to provide an alternative.”
Baidu Europe has already started recruiting personnel, but cannot yet say exactly when operations will start. More information can be found on http://www.baidu-europe.eu.
