The deal that was soooo close to happening so many times and never came through, well, finally came throughwith a lot less lead-up and fanfare than anytime it was rumored to be happening. I think this will be a good opportunity for Yahoo to spend time working on its content even more, and to help [...]
Entries Tagged as 'MSN'
Yahoo and MSN merge search – it’s official
July 29th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: bing · bing sucks · fail · Google · Google sucks · MSN · MSN sucks · online marketing news · Search News · win · Yahoo · Yahoo sucks
Encarta is Dead, Long Live Encarta
March 31st, 2009 No Comments
Per Barry Schwartz / Rustybrick at Search Engine Land, Microsoft is ending its Encarta Encyclopedia software later this year. For me, this is the winner of the Abe Vigoda Is It Still Alive award of the year (btw, at time of posting Mr. Vigoda is indeed still alive) – I’ll plead ignorance and confess that I [...]
Tags: encarta · fail · MSN · MSN sucks · software · wikipedia
Yahoo is getting destroyed
January 12th, 2009 No Comments
Word is that Yahoo’s share of the search market dropped from 30.4% in September to 19.4% in December. In this same span of time, MSN rose up to 16.4%. Google’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 112% as usual.
I’m not sure if this is because MSN’s improving or if Yahoo’s bi-monthly giant algorithm changes of doom [...]
Tags: fail · MSN · MSN sucks · PPC news · Search News · Yahoo · Yahoo sucks
