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StumbleUpon Death Threats in eBay Social Network
via Search Engine Watch Blog by (author unknown) on January 21, 2008
Search marketers can enrage diehard members of social communities who want to keep marketers at bay. The result? Death threats, cyberterrorism, obscene language, cyberharassment, and calls for suicide. Social media marketers see StumbleUpon and social networking sites like Facebook as theirs to mine for traffic, links, and sales. A just-released Sapient study shows marketers plan to increase...
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Paid Search Advertising Drives Microsoft Bid for Yahoo
via Search Engine Watch Blog by (author unknown) on January 31, 2008
The Microsoft conference call yielded little new information about the details of the Yahoo bid. Steve Ballmer stressed that scale and efficiency in online advertising platforms would drive the success of the deal. Microsoft execs said R&D innovations would drive breakthroughs in vertical search, mobile search, social search, and natural language search. Nice thought; won't work in the...
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Microsoft Won't Beg or Steal; Will Borrow to Buy Yahoo
via Search Engine Watch Blog by (author unknown) on February 03, 2008
Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell told Wall St. analysts the company would likely borrow to pay for the cash portion of its Yahoo bid. That's a first in the company's history. The half-cash, half-stock offer is $31 per share.Microsoft has a huge war chest, approximately $21 billion at year end. It's not as if Microsoft couldn't fund the cash portion without borrowing any money. The...
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Yahoo News Reports Microsoft Bid Change
via Search Engine Watch Blog by (author unknown) on February 07, 2008
This just in: Yahoo! News (AP on Yahoo News) scooped the world on the most amazing number ever reported for MicroHoo. Since all wait with linkbaited breath for the latest Microsoft-Yahoo bid, here 'tis:$45 MILLION dollars! Microsoft agreed to pay how much for Yahoo? Would the Yahoo board of directors accept this low-ball offer from Microsoft? O who will save Yahoo from Microsoft? We need a...
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Yahoo Board Escapes MS Bear Hug: Yahoo Jitsu!
via Search Engine Watch Blog by (author unknown) on February 08, 2008
The Yahoo board of directors will formally reject Microsoft's $31 bid, according to a report today in the WSJ. The Microsoft letter (i-banker parlance, a bear hug) sent to the Yahoo board.The Jiu Jitsu move that Yahoo used to slip out of Microsoft's arms? The board stated the 62 percent preimum "massively undervalues" Yahoo and doesn't cover the risk that regulators here and abroad...
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SEW Experts: The Great Nofollow Link Debate of '08
via Search Engine Watch Blog by (author unknown) on February 14, 2008
What started as a way to stop comment spam three years ago has turned into one of the most controversial topics in search. In today's SEM Crossfire column, "The Great Nofollow Link Debate of '08," Chris Boggs discusses the evolution of the "nofollow" attribute and its impact on SEO and link building.
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SEO, Social Marketing & Scientology
via Search Engine Watch Blog by (author unknown) on February 16, 2008
My last post, about how YouTube’s new features will affect internet marketers, garnered a lot of attention—but not from SEO and PPC professionals. It was my first paragraph, about YouTube’s response to the Anonymous-vs-Scientology online battle, that got attention. Shortly after I posted that YouTube had not removed Anonymous’ initial YouTube threat/message to Scientology, SEW was flooded...
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Hilary Clinton Accused of Obama Turban Warfare in Universal Search
via Search Engine Watch Blog by (author unknown) on February 25, 2008
Universal search has changed the course of history. Blended search - the combination of the universal searches for Obama turban photo, Barack Obama news stories, YouTube Obama Girl videos and buzz-worthy blogs have created a political firestorm ignited by Internet search. Forget the official YouTube debates and lofty and admirable aspirations of Google's Sergey Brin. Welcome to the grim, new...
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Baidu Search Engine Launches IM in Beta - Baidu Hi
via Search Engine Watch Blog by (author unknown) on February 29, 2008
Search engine Baidu has launched instant messaging (IM) in beta, the first formal foray into the Chinese IM market. The "Baidu Hi" service won't be expected to generate revenue in the short term. But the Chinese search titan must find a way to diversify its revenue base. The Chinese language search engine recently launched a Japanese portal.Baidu, China's most popular search engine, has...
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CAPTCHA Systems are Under Attack
via Search Engine Watch Blog by (author unknown) on March 09, 2008
For a long time we have come to rely on mechanisms such as CAPTCHA to hold spammers at bay. Should spammers ever succeed in breaking thorugh CAPTCHA a lot of social media web sites and blogs are going to have a big, big problem. Now, Virtual Blight reports that this is on the verge of happening in their post, the Coming CAPTCHA crisis.The post is written by Richard DeMillo, the Dean of Computer...
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