Microsoft to lure search users with cash
According to Todd Bishop’s blog, Microsoft is all set to to lure search users with cash!
Microsoft has tried almost everything to get more people to pick its search site over Google, without much luck. So maybe a little cash will do the trick.
A screenshot of the Live Search cashback site.
That is the idea behind a [...]
Microsoft, Yahoo may team up on Web search
NEW YORK - Microsoft Corp., the software maker that scrapped a $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo! Inc. this month, may forge a partnership with the Internet company in the search-advertising market to challenge Google Inc. Microsoft, which abandoned its takeover attempts May 3, said Sunday that it’s exploring a transaction with [...]
Best of Google Holiday Logos
Google celebrates Einstein’s birthday - March 14, 2003
Earth Day - April 22, 2008
Earth Day - April 22, 2007
Earth Day - April 22, 2006
Earth Day - April 22, 2004
Alexander Graham Bell’s Birthday - March 3, 2008
Happy Valentine’s Day - February 14, 2008
Veteran’s Day - November 11, 2007
Happy Halloween - October 31, 2007
Father’s Day - June 18, [...]
Understanding How CAPTCHA Is Broken
Websense Security Labs explains the spammer Anti-CAPTCHA operations and mass-mailing strategies. Apparently spammers are using combination of different tactics — proper email accounts, visual social engineering, and fast-flux — representing a strategy, explains their resident CAPTCHA expert. It is evident that spammers are working towards defeating anti-spam filters with their tactics.
For the spammers, the entire [...]
Google Overtakes Yahoo As Most-Visited Web Property
As if Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang didn’t have enough to worry about, Google has now overtaken Yahoo as the most-visited website property, according to comScore.
April saw Google Sites attain the number one spot in the Top 50 U.S. Properties ranking for the first time in its history with a total audience of more than [...]
Google May Run Display Advertisements With Image Search Results
Google is considering running illustrated advertisements alongside the results of Web queries for pictures, moving beyond its text-based ad business. Matching graphical-display ads with image searches “represents a large opportunity, and there’s lot of potential for advertising revenue there,” Marissa Mayer, a Google vice president, said.
Google is seeking new sources [...]
FLurry of Data Interoperability announcements…
TechCrunch has an interesting post that Google is going to launch a product called “Friend Connect” on Monday. MySpace launched Data Availability on Thursday, and yesterday Facebook Connect.
Why this flurry of activity in opening up APIs for 3rd party apps? All these initiatives will allow securely sending personal profile data, including friend lists, presence/status information, [...]
Techmeme effect: if (on Techmeme) {Repeat in my blog}
Everyone seems to have a say on Facebook’s Connect announcement. Just look at the techmeme snapshot taken a few mins back, and these post snippets (see below)! And there is nothing new anyone is saying. Read on…
Oliver Thylmann’s Thoughts, Bits, The Social, The Real McCrea, Inside Facebook, Guardian Unlimited, Brij’s One More Idea, [...]
Yahoo Shareholders Aim To Reignite Microsoft Deal
The Los Angeles Times reports, “Yahoo Inc. shareholders are so mad about the company’s failure to cut a deal with Microsoft Corp. that several said they would consider a proxy fight to oust Chief Executive Jerry Yang and Yahoo’s board of directors if that would bring the Seattle suitor back to [...]
Report: Microsoft-Yahoo deal may go hostile Friday
Citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported early Friday that the world’s largest software maker may be preparing to go straight to Internet pioneer Yahoo’s shareholders. An announcement was “likely” to come Friday, according to the report, though the newspaper said its sources cautioned that Microsoft may delay.
Chief Executive Steve [...]
