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Bidding On Trademarks in Search Advertising Continues to Heat Up

by Jeff Weisbein December 28, 2011

Here’s a hot topic: competitors or scammers bidding on your company’s trademark in search results to be at the top of the results in the sponsored links section. Is this illegal? The answer may surprise you: it’s not.

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BitlBee Review: The IRC Addict’s Dream Come True

by Mike Mansell August 15, 2011

I am by all means an IRC addict. My IRC client, Textual (written and maintained by BestTechie contributing author Michael Morris) is the first application that I open and look at in the morning and is the last application I check before closing the lid on my MacBook Pro at night. That said, a great [...]

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Should Google Adapt Unlimited Storage?

by Mike Mansell June 16, 2011

Today every single Gmail account gets a standard inbox capacity just under seven and a half gigabytes. But although a far jump from what the service offered only a matter of years ago, Gmail’s capacity is no longer an outstanding feature for the service. Other free email providers like Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, and even America Online have all implemented “unlimited” storage for some time now.

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3 Companies That Cannot Afford to Fail in 2011

by Jeff Weisbein December 19, 2010

The new year is right around the corner and for some 2011 will be a crucial year to rebound. For AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo 2011 is the year which will be the determining factor of each companies success in the future. If these companies do not step it up in 2011 it will drastically effect [...]

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AOL-Yahoo Merger: Not Happening.

by Jeff Weisbein October 14, 2010

I just don’t see this AOL-Yahoo merger happening. It may make sense from several perspectives which all stem from the fact they are both in essentially the same businesses. However, in the end this merger would not benefit either company. In fact, I believe it would hurt them. Most significantly, I believe the merger would [...]

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Yahoo Interested In Acquiring Bit.ly

by Jeff Weisbein July 24, 2010

There have been reports that Yahoo is in the early stages of negotiations with the popular URL shortening service Bit.ly according to sources familiar with the matter says GigaOM. Of course, this isn’t the first hot startup to be in talks with Yahoo, many were speculating that Yahoo was talking with the hot location based service Foursquare [...]

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Battle for Relevance: Yahoo

by Jeff Weisbein July 16, 2010

When I asked Twitter the other day, “Who will become more irrelevant (or die) first – Microsoft or Yahoo?” I can’t say I was surprised by the overwhelming response answering Yahoo, or maybe it was more along the lines of “Yahoo is relevant?” I think you get the point. When Michael Arrington interviewed Yahoo CEO [...]

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Can Someone Explain the Q&A Craze?

by Jeff Weisbein July 3, 2010

I really want to know what’s up with the sudden interest in Q&A type sites? Once upon a time, there was Yahoo Answers, a site run by Yahoo which let users ask questions and receive answers from other users. Which to me, always seemed like nothing more then an Internet forum, such as the one [...]

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How To: Get Better Search Engine Rankings

by Mike Mansell March 31, 2010

As we’ve previously discussed, having a website (and vanity email accounts) plays a key role in your businesses’ professional appearance, and ultimately the number of leads you get and sales you make. But, having a website is no good unless people can find it. This is where search engines, Google being the largest and most [...]

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Google vs Yahoo & Microsoft

by Jeff Weisbein July 30, 2009

Well, it’s a done deal. Microsoft and Yahoo have come to a 10 year partnership agreement with regards to search. Microsoft’s new Bing search engine will be powering Yahoo search and handling the back end, while Yahoo will essentially be the sales team. While there was no up front payment from Microsoft to Yahoo, the [...]

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