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Linda Stone is a former executive who worked at Apple and Microsoft. Has been doing all sorts of research over the years…
It's tempting to dismiss this as a case of "too little, too late" - Microsoft and thousands of shareholders are already at Yahoo's door. Still, the company's performed an overhaul of its video site, and things are looking at least mildly impressive.
Research firm the NPD Group has released its U.S. retail sales figures for January 2008. Software sales for the month were up by 11 percent to $611 million, hardware sales dropped by a quarter to $378 million. Overall the industry was down 6 percent for the month managing to reach $1.18 billion compared to January 2007 sales of $1.25 billion.
Since the PC browser search and ad experience have been dominated by Google, Microsoft's competitive play may be on the mobile side, where no single provider dominates search.
Reorganization time at Microsoft shuffled the executive deck, as the company moved people up on the org chart, perhaps as early preparation for a successful Yahoo takeover.
No matter how much some people claim the SEO industry is a den of snake-oil salesmen, there are still definite ways webmasters can improve their rankings, and thus their visibility in Google's search results.This isn't a manipulation game—Google absolutely hates that game and will punish you for it—which is perhaps what the darker element of the SEO world sells. Good, in-bounds SEO is made up…
