Week of September 18, 2006 SEO News Archives
September 21, 2006
MSN's Windows Live now offered in China
Microsoft said it would establish Windows Live soon after Bill Gates' retirement,
a sign of the shift in Microsoft's strategy. Dubbed Windows Live, the new Internet
platform will integrate MSN, blog server MySpace, search and various Internet services
and some additional software. Microsoft has been looking for an opportunity to get
into the search market since Baidu.com, Yahoo and Google joined the club in China.
The launch of Live Search is undoubtedly strategic for Microsoft.
September 20, 2006
Yahoo Mail increases its advertising revenue
The total number of CPM display ads tracked by Nielsen//NetRatings was about 233 billion
in August, a big jump from the 187 billion tracked just a month earlier.
September 20, 2006
Analysts still rate Yahoo as an outperforming stock
Pyykkonen still rates Yahoo as an "outperform" but holds little hope of hitting his
$45 share price target anytime in the near-term. "Yahoo came out and said there is a
fair-size drop in demand which is scaring everybody," said Richard Williams, director
of equity research at interdealer broker ICAP in New York. "You're going to stop buying
things on the Internet first" in the event of a slowdown," Williams said. "We'll be
watching results from Google and other Internet companies to see if this is indeed just
a blip, or just a specific issue."
September 19, 2006
MSN's Soapbox
MSN's keyword clustering application was created by an intern and could become a feature
on Soapbox, Microsoft said.
September 18, 2006
Google to tailor its political operations to whichever party is in power
To be sure, Google opened an office in D.C. last year and staffed it with Davidson, a
former associate director of the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington. It has since
added Jamie Brown, a former White House staffer under President Bush, and Robert Boorstin, a
former speech writer and foreign policy adviser in the Clinton administration, as communications
director. Stern said that Google will tailor its political operations to whichever party is in
power. While the company may have hired a couple of Republican lobbyists now, "I'm sure that
when the Democrats come into power, they'll hire a Democrat."
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