The rising speculation among the technorati out there is that Twitter is the next big acquisition. There have already been offers made and turned down, but one expert thinks the buyer will be Google or Yahoo because search can’t afford to miss out on Twitter’s potential as a disruptive force—the word “killer” once again deployed in hyperbolic force.
Speculation About a New Google Filter
Aaron Wall put up a post about a new Google filter that causes people with high ranking terms to be bumped down to position #6. There is also a thread at Webmaster World about this phenomenon. This is still reasonably speculative in nature, but there are a lot of people who have seen this.
Google Phone Speculation Runs Wild
We have speculated before about the potential for a Google phone and an ad-supported network to back it. Google may have an early version of the device ready to go.
Microsoft Argo Speculation Flies
Everybody’s talking about a portable device Microsoft is developing, code-named “Argo”. Lets take a look:
Vista 60 Percent Rewrite Is All Speculation
A report from an Australian publication citing a source at Acer Australia claimed up to 60 percent of the Windows Vista code needed to be rewritten, and Xbox engineers were being moved over to help with the programming.
Google A Speculation, Not An Investment
Google was as good as gold in 2005, but any cracks that appear in the Googleplex facade could send hedge funds fleeing for safer pastures and pressure shares of GOOG downward.
Year Opens with Google Speculation
It all starts with a rumour. Someone said something to someone else and that someone told another person and before you can say, “cheese-doodle”, a wrong-story rumour grows out of control as speculation spreads it far and wide.
MSN-AOL: Speculation Day 2
Yesterday, the New York Post ran a story about Microsoft getting in on some AOL action. They reported Time-Warner was currently in advanced talks with the software leviathan over becoming equal partners in the entity known as AOL. Naturally, in the search world media, speculation flew fast and furious.