Internet Search … So What Now, Microsoft?

If Microsoft has walked away from Yahoo for good, and I think they should, it will be a blessing. Over 40 billion dollars for a name brand is what it amounts to. Yahoo had the world by the tail at the beginning of the decade. The clear leader in all things internet and they just plain blew it! What can be a better testament to inept, egocentric and out-of-touch management than Jerry Yang’s playing hardball with Microsoft without an ounce of justification; he just gave away as much as 50% of the value of the deal for no reason that anyone can muster. In fact, his actions over the past 3 months are downright irresponsible as he actually and willfully destroyed share holder value with the sole objective of thwarting Microsoft’s takeover.

Search Engines and the Microsoft Yahoo Fiasco

Today we learned that Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo is a thing of the past. Jerry Yang thinks he should get $38 a share and apparently Steve Ballmer at Microsoft won’t budge from his initial offer of $31, although some suggest that Microsoft was willing to go to $33.

Search Engine Spiders are Hungry!

SEO professionals, and hopefully their clients, are acutely aware that it is a very competitive world at the top of the search engine pages. When you are vying for top positions on the major search engines, you are now way beyond the mundane tasks of meta tags, title tags and other basic internal components that are best described in Search Engine Optimization “101.”