The Key for Microsoft and Yahoo

It’s anyone’s guess at the moment whether Microsoft will succeed in its bid to acquire Yahoo.Following Yahoo’s rejection of the unsolicited bid, subsequent speculation on who else might emerge as a white knight, or even whether Yahoo and Google might get into bed together to keep Microsoft at bay, the scene appears to be set for a battle that, whatever the eventual outcome, will re-draw…

SEO Celebrities

I am curious if anyone else has noticed a trend over the past year or so where people (I have nobody specific in mind) in the search marketing business seem to increasingly gravitate towards becoming a “SEO celebrity”. It’s a bit like like moths to a flame, really.

Russia’s Medvedev Seems Okay With Online Freedoms

Say what you want about censorship in Russia; the man who will likely become the country's next president publicly recognized that, at least in theory, the Internet has made the spread of information much freer.

A Loophole For Paid Links

It seems it was only a matter of time before the cleverer element of the SEO world developed a workaround for Google's penalizing of paid links. The workaround involves a pretty creative "dynamic" linking strategy, and it's playing a little bit dirty.

New Nickelodeon/MTVN Buy Caters To Expecting Parents

Corporate ownerships and small sites are branching off this deal in every direction.  Still, to reach towards the top level of the matter, MTV Networks has acquired Babunga's "online family network" for an undisclosed amount.