Microsoft and Yahoo are talking again about how they might merge or cooperate is the report from WSJ and nypost. After Microsoft losing DoubleClick to Google, it has intensified talks with Yahoo for a merger. Wall Street sources put a roughly $50 billion price tag on Yahoo!.

From WSJ,

Still, Microsoft has technical expertise that might benefit Yahoo. Under one possible scenario, Microsoft could manage the technical platform and infrastructure of the companies’ combined Internet activities, while Yahoo’s current staff could oversee the consumer parts of the businesses, such as Yahoo News, Finance and email.

Yet top Yahoo executives could be a big obstacle to any deal. They believe they have found the right strategy and are wary of any combination with Microsoft, for whom Internet activities remain only a small part of its business, says one person familiar with the matter. Top Yahoo staff might leave if Microsoft acquired the company and triggered a vesting of their Yahoo options.

So this deal from Microsoft with Yahoo might not be possible and if possible might be a great threat for Google.

Mark

SEO Tags : Microsoft, Yahoo

Techcrunch and Readwriteweb has discussed about how Flickr ate Yahoo! photos. Yahoo has planned to close its online photosharing website Yahoo! Photos in favour of Flickr.

According to web metrics firm Hitwise, Yahoo! Photos is currently the number 2 photo website on the web, behind Photobucket, which has seized 40% of the market on the back of strong usage among MySpace visitors.

According to Charlene Li of Forrester Research,

Flickr, meanwhile, has gained on Yahoo!’s main photo property, jumping from the #6 photo website last year, to the #3 position today.

Flickr generally offers most of the tools that Yahoo! Photos offers. Flickr has also started to offer some printed products, such as photo cards via a partnership with Moo.

Yahoo Photos is currently the largest photo sharing site on the Internet, with around 2 billion stored photos. Flickr, by comparison, has around 500 million photos. But Flickr is also growing much faster than Yahoo photos and has just exceeded Yahoo! Photos in traffic, according to Comscore.

Mark

SEO Tags : Yahoo! photos, Flickr, Yahoo

Yahoo oneSearch has been released in five European countries (UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, France) and Canada. This release has replaced the existed Yahoo mobile search. Yahoo OneSearch has already been launched in the U.S. in March.

Yahoo mobile application Go is not distributed to the mobile companies nor wait for the users to dwnload. It moves on with its effective features and replaces the mobile search with the effective feature of Go,Yahoo’s OneSearch which is available via any web enabled mobile phones.

Already Yahoo oneSearch for Mobile 2.0 is accessible to more than 85 percent of mobile phones that have access to the mobile Web, and is also available through the gamma version of Yahoo Go.

Mark

SEO Tags :  Yahoo, Yahoo Go, Yahoo OneSearch

According to The New York Times, Yahoo is planning to acquire remaining 80-percent interest in Right Media.

Yahoo had brought 20-percent of stake Right Media in last October. Now Yahoo will pay $680 million for the remaining interest in the company.

Right Media, a four year old company which runs open exchange to help buyers and sellers trade digital media. As per The New York Times, Yahoo executives said that after the acquisition it would increase its participation in the exchange as both a buyer and seller of ads.

Yahoo had gave press release regarding its plan.

Kannan

SEO Tags : Yahoo, Right Media

Different ways of marketing has done. The most popular way of marketing is through online on the present days. Online marketing gives good and faster ROI. In online marketing there are many ways to market, they are

• Search Engine Optimization.
• Search Engine Marketing.
• Pay per Click.
• Pay per Downloads.
• Pay per sales, etc..

Search Engine Optimization can be done and can make site more popular among the people. RankQuest WatchSEO will helps you to do SEO for the site.

Search Engine Marketing can be done through various Search Engine. In this click fraud can be done through robots. Click and Conversion can be tracked through RankQuest SiteAdOptimizer. RankQuest SiteAdOptimizer will help to track the clicks and IP for the search and to track site in which content ads are displayed. Click fraud can be prevented through RankQuest SiteAdOptimizer.

Kannan

SEO Tags : Internet Marketing

Greg Jarboe in Search Engine Watch has reported that Yahoo news shows images and videos on the top of results page for the past three days.

The results page for the query “Ipod” will look like this,

The images shown are not driven from Yahoo Images or Yahoo Video search. These images or videos are from Yahoo News itself.

Mark

SEO Tags :  Yahoo News, Yahoo, Yahoo Images, Yahoo Videos

Search Engine Land has reported that Google was ranked the most powerful brand by Millward Brown Optimor’s Brandz Top 100.

Millward Brown Optimor created the BRANDZ Top 100, a ranking that identifies the world’s most powerful brands measured by their dollar value. Our brand ranking provides key insights and actionable information for finance, marketing and business professionals on how to manage and grow their brand assets.

The top 5 according to Brandz

• Google with $66.4 billion
• General Electric with $61.9 billion
• Microsoft with $55 billion
• Coca-Cola with $44.1 billion
• China Mobile with $41.2 billion

Microsoft is at 3 and Yahoo is at 42. The Report, League Table, Press Release are given in the form of PDF.

Mark

SEO Tags : Brandz Top 100, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Dollar value

Yahoo has announced new progress as upcoming.

Yahoo Id can been used to login in the upcoming friends community site. Yahoo informed for old-users that their setting are saved. Yahoo provides option to save your city name. Once your city name is saved, yahoo shows latest events. Below sample images shows the sample of Upcoming events.

Date, EventName, Venue,and comment will be shown.

Once the city name is saved in place tab, Upcoming events, location and city map will be displayed. Below image is one example for it.

Other things like Friends, Groups and Popular has been added to this site. Other Features such as

• User Events.
• Scrap.
• MyFriends Event.

For know about more about upcoming see Yahoo Blogs

SEO Tags: Yahoo Upcoming
Kannan

As we all know that Search Engines like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft were supporting single format of Sitemaps for submission, Ask Search Engine has also started supporting to the same format now. This may help the WebMaster to notify Search Engine of the URLs on their site that they are wanted to be crawled. This Search Engines follow same Protocol and made new announcements.

Google official blog and yahoo search blog has blogged a day before. From the discussion,

• Sitemap.org is supportting for 18 Languages is one good news.
• Ask.com is also supporting to the sitemap protocol.
• The standard format “Sitemap:http://mysite.com/sitemap.xml” is to be added in robots.txt file.

Hope this would help webmasters a lot.

Kannan

SEO Tags : Search Engine Optimization, Google, Yahoo, Ask

Google introduced a link bomb fix in January, Site with George Bush was shown as the first results for search terms such as failure and miserable failure. This issue has been fixed and again this site has used the word failure and was placed second for failure.

Search Engine Land has briefly explained it. So as a result of usage the top search engines has placed their site this way,

• Yahoo: failure, ranks 1st; miserable failure, ranks 1st
• Google: failure ranks 2nd; miserable failure, not in first page of results
• Microsoft: failure, not in first page of results; miserable failure, ranks 1st
• Ask: ; failure, not in first page of results; miserable failure, ranks 4th

So using these search terms Failure and miserable in the site will make Bush a failure again and again in terms of Search Engines.

Mark

SEO Tags : Google, Yahoo, Search Engines, Ask, Microsoft