May 9, 2008
The Precursor Blog by Scott Cleland - Forward Thinking At The Nexus Of Policy, Markets And Change / Scott Cleland
A Yahoo-Google search outsourcing pact arguably faces even more problems with European antitrust authorities than the reported U.S. DOJ antitrust investigation, for two reasons:
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May 9, 2008
Sideways8 / Mike Lewis
Isn’t Yahoo! supposed to compete with Google and other consumer properties? I mean, even AOL has an RSS reader (here). People are using RSS readers more and more and Google’s making it s ...
May 9, 2008
Search Engine Roundtable / barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
Dear all, it is raining and icky outside, so today's a good day for a buzz roundup. Enjoy. ;) Landing Page Load Time: Check Your Google AdWords Quality Score now factors in your landing page load time ...
May 9, 2008
Search Engine Watch Blog
It's speculation Friday, again. And today, the analysts will be pondering whether or not Microsoft will come back for Yahoo, something they haven't been secret about hoping for. But Microsoft is throw ...
May 9, 2008
MediaFile / Yinka Adegoke
As the Microsoft-Yahoo will-they-won’t-they? saga drags on, Google’s role in any future talks becomes more apparent.
On Thursday Google CEO Eric Schmidt said a two-week trial selling sear ...
May 9, 2008
Yahoo! Finance: GOOG News
Microsoft Corp. will focus on growing its own advertising and Internet search business after it withdrew its takeover offer for Yahoo Inc., Chairman Bill Gates said Friday. ...

May 9, 2008
WebGuild / noreply@blogger.com (Daya Baran)
Microsoft's proposed bid for Yahoo was its fastest way to gain the scale necessary to compete against Google for online advertising dollars. Even before pulling the Yahoo offer, the company he had beg ...