Yahoo + AOL + Microsoft = Google Killer?
How do you get three giants out of quicksand? The biggest giant eats the other two and makes a boat from their bones. That seems to be Wall Street’s approach to building an apt competitor to Google. Shortly after analysts dreamed of a Microsoft-owned Yahoo, they’ve amended their solution to include AOL.
2006 Holiday Ecommerce Traffic Up
According to new research from Hitwise average daily visits to ecommerce sites from Thanksgiving through the Thursday before Christmas were up 5.9 percent compared to 2005. The days with the single biggest increases over last year were Cyber Monday the first Monday after Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Day.
SEO and Sitemaps
If you follow search engine news you know that the major search engines are fighting tooth and nail for market share.
How Interim Management Has Evolved
During the nineties, between downsizing and the dot.com era, corporate men and women were becoming endangered species.
How Many Rows of Data to Use with Spry
Bob sent in an interesting email to me:
What An Un-Neutral Net Means To You
The Center for Digital Democracy has put together an elegant explanation of the heightening battle between the telecommunications industry and everybody else that uses the Internet. A lengthy read (for an Internet article), the CDD has outlined what the telcos aim to accomplish and how it affects everything in the future.
Google’s Index Size
Google stopped showing their index size – the page count of all indexed web documents – on their homepage some time ago.
Digg Has A Problem With SEO
Some sort of battle between Digg’s behind-the-scenes moderators and the SEO community came to a boiling point just before Christmas as Lee Odden’s domain became part of Digg’s banned list.
iTunes Still Far (Really Far) Ahead of Zune.net
Christmas 2006 was another gangbuster for Apple’s iTunes website and all things iPod-associated. Microsoft’s Zune? Not so much. So far, Zune is the GoBot to Apple’s Transformer.
Digg And SEO Don’t Play Nice
You may have heard that recently many seo and marketing related sites are getting banned by Digg for the scandalous offense of being seo and marketing related sites.