Rackspace Seeks $400 Million In IPO

The public offering from the hosting company comes amid the unsettled US economy, but Rackspace believes a Google-like auction will pull in nine figures.

Hitwise Reexamines AdWords UK Change

As UK businesses brace for Google's policy change on trademark bidding, there's a growing amount of evidence that they'll be hit hard.  Today, Hitwise's Robin Goad provided several solid examples.

Five ways to take over Yahoo

Microsoft and Steve Ballmer already know these, but Marc Andreessen summarized the choices available to the company in their quest to absorb Yahoo.

The SEO Trademark Drama

Earlier this month we informed our readers that a guy named Jason Gambert had been running around in the Trademark Office trying to get the term Search Engine Optimization (SEO) trademarked. Well his wish just ran into a brick wall and now things have gotten really nasty.

Yahoo Answers Unquestionably Successful

Yahoo promotes all sorts of things - options relating to search, shopping, and mail, among other subjects, are given the top spaces and bold boxes on its homepage.  But Yahoo Answers is near the top of a side column thanks to alphabetization, and new stats reveal that the service is extraordinarily popular.