Week of March 6, 2006 SEO News Archives
March 8, 2006
BenQ to equip its phones with Google software
BenQ Mobile says it has offered to extend the agreement but the
IG Metall trade union has not yet decided whether to accept.
Chief Executive Clemens Joos, who said last month that production
in Germany was "always threatened," said he expected to start talks
with IG Metall in May.
March 8, 2006
Relevant results with topic-based vertical search engines
According to Tom Rakoczi of Rapid Intelligence, there will be
more spin-offs when the results of the initial beta testing are
clear. Later on spin-offs will be announced on factbites.com.
What I look for in a search engine is a tidy, user-friendly design
and relevant results. Factbites and its children have more than this.
The combination of topic based search technology and results presented
in easy to read summaries is very attractive.
March 8, 2006
Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Mail
The Windows Live Search will be accessible across all the
upcoming Windows Live services, such as Windows Live Messenger
and Windows Live Mail. MSN Search has about 11 percent of the U.S.
search market, behind Yahoo with 22 percent and Google with 48
percent, according Nielsen/NetRatings.
March 7, 2006
Paid search advertising to reach $10 billion in 2009
"Clearly our growth rates are slowing," said Google's chief
financial officer, George Reyes, on February 28, 2006, noting
that the company's revenue growth is decelerating because of the
"law of large numbers." In other words, hyper-growth can't be
sustained forever. And as Google goes, so goes the search marketing
industry. eMarketer's David Hallerman, Senior Analyst and author
of the new report Search Marketing I: Spending and Metrics, finds
the slowing growth rate expected.
March 6, 2006
Google growing faster than Yahoo and MSN
For the 1990s, its average yearly headcount growth dropped to 24
percent. An easy way to grow fast is to acquire companies. All
three players have bought plenty of smaller businesses along the
way. For example, Yahoo grew by 1000+ employees when it acquired
Overture in 2003, thereby increasing its headcount by more than
one-third. In conclusion, let's have a look at how Wall Street
values the employees of each company. With Friday's market caps,
each Microsoft employee is worth $4.3 million. Each Yahoo employee
is valued at about $4.7 million. And each Google employee is valued
at approximately $19 million.
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