Microsoft’s Offer To Yahoo Falling

In all of the Microsoft-Yahoo talk so far, no official deadlines have been given.  There may be an implicit hurry-up factor, however, as it seems that Microsoft's sinking stock price could force it to adjust the deal.

Microsoft Playing Pepsi To Google’s Coke

If Microsoft can pull off its Yahoo proposal and manage to get ad systems integrated across properties for both sites, they could be a desirable part of search marketing campaigns that begin and end with Google these days.

Google’s Stock Has A Good Day

As someone with no connections to Google's stock, I'm a fairly impartial observer in this matter.  Still, it was fun to write about the stock passing $600, $650, and $700 in rapid succession, and although it's much lower now, it's managed something impressive and smile-inducing again.

Google, Twitter Team Up For Primary Map

If you just can't stand to wait until late tonight or early tomorrow to find out the results of Super Tuesday, there are some ways to abate the political DT's. You could stare at CNN and Fox all day, or you could see real people's reactions and feelings. In this case, Google and Twitter have you covered.Okay, okay. When I said "real people," I meant…

AdSense Earnings Down?

There's word around the Webmaster World forum that publishers have been experiencing a sharp decline in AdSense earnings over the past month. There's been little consensus, lots of possible explanations, but nothing you might call conclusive.