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Monday, 2 June 2008
Microsoft recently announced that it’s willing to pay people money for using their crappy search engine, provided the people buy something, and provided the people live in America.
The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that Microsoft aren’t after Google, they’re actually after Yahoo.
With their failed takeover attempt fresh in everyone’s minds, this might just be Microsoft’s “work with us or we’ll spend as much as we need to bury you” message to Yahoo.
Monday, 17 March 2008
I just noticed that Live now advertise on Google.
How peculiar that a Google’s competitor would pay money to Google, just to have a user redirected back to its own search engine results page.
Knowing that the overwhelming majority of our own visitors prefer Google, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Microsoft will spend lots of money, just to remain competitive as a minor player.
But paying for keywords and hoping users will click on the sponsored link instead of the organic results seems a bit naive to me.
Monday, 18 February 2008
Like almost all websites, the overwhelming majority of our visitors come to us via a search engine. Knowing that Google dominates, I was nevertheless curious to look at our own statistics, just to see to what extent.
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Friday, 21 December 2007
This is what happens when you get your website builders to make your brand new website and they forget to change the content meta tags:
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Monday, 11 June 2007
Will Google’s collection of business office tools, combined with their brand new offline web application technology, make the operating systems on our PC’s irrelevant?
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