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Microsoft’s Vista has been a success so far, with more than 20 million copies shipped in its first month. This is great news for Microsoft, but not for its competitors Google and Yahoo. Vista, launched in early 2007, faced some challenges like user complaints of recurring bugs and the release of Google Apps, [...] Tags: Andrea Diebold, Bill Veghte, Dell, Google, Google Apps, Microsoft, Neil Hand, News Update, Vista, XP, yahoo

Search engine marketing specialist Richard Ball has been critical of Yahoo’s Search Marketing business. Their practice of placing search ads on their distribution network, even when advertisers opt out of content matching for their campaigns, has led to some of Ball’s clients receiving lots of clicks through sites he calls “low quality” Yahoo distribution partners. Yahoo [...]

The Viacom lawsuit against Google over YouTube has started playing out in the court of public opinion. Just a few days after Viacom attorney Michael Fricklas gave Viacom’s side of the story in an op-ed letter to The Washington Post, Google lawyer Michael Kwun responded with the search engine’s opinion of Viacom’s action. Kwun commented on [...]

n 2005, news Corp purchased the social networking site, myspace.com for $580 million. That seems like a bargain now, since myspace popularity has skyrocketed. In fact, the site ranks among the most visited websites on the planet, and also holds a firm position in as one of the top advertising sites. Pali [...] Tags: Andrea Diebold, Fox News Business Channel, Momby, MySpace, News Update, NewsCorp, Richard Greenfield

Microsoft has turned off some advanced operators for their Live Search site. Webmasters who use operators like link: and linkdomain: to learn more about the reach of their websites in Live Search will have to wait a while before Microsoft turns them back on again. Live Search lead program manager Eytan Seidman said Microsoft has been [...] Tags: Eytan Seidman, Live Search, Microsoft, MSN, News Update

Yahoo has announced their latest developer platform, the Yahoo Mail web service. John Kremer, vice president for Yahoo Mail, told WebProNews he hopes to see developers leverage Yahoo Mail’s 250 million users to build innovative and interesting applications like the Flickr postcard created during their Hack Day event last September. Yahoo Developer Network leader Chad Dickerson [...] Tags: Chad Dickerson, Flickr, John Kremer, News Update, yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Mail Plus

At home in Colorado with her door bolted shut and an ongoing police investigation going down, blogger Kathy Sierra is not attending the O’Reilly Etech conference in San Diego as she was supposed to. Nearly a month ago, Sierra began receiving obscene and vicious death threats on her blog. Prompting the investigation, Sierra [...]

Yahoo’s email users will no longer have to worry about a storage limit on their accounts. John Kremer, vice president for Yahoo Mail, announced the change to unlimited storage, which will begin in May. “When Yahoo! Mail launched 10 years ago, users got a whopping 4MB of storage for their entire mailbox. Today, you would [...] Tags: Mail, News Update, Virgin Mobile, yahoo

Attention all bloggers, a new ad format, may help you earn money from your blog. Last week, Google started testing their new pay-per-action advertising program, But Googles new CPA ads and their current ones have a lot of differences. Since the advertiser pays on every click. The Adsense programs policy, states that calling attention or [...]

Nearly a month after Neil Patel challenged SEO criticisms made by Jason Calacanis, results are favorable for Patel, whose goal was to increase search traffic for Calacanis. Patel said he could boost search-driven traffic on the site by a minimum of 10 percent within 30 days of making the changes to the site. [...] Tags: Andrea Diebold, Jason Calacanis, Neil Patel, SEO, weblogs