26
Sep

Yahoo has unveiled a new product, and although there are less interesting possibilities, this thing could either revolutionize our industry or end CEO Jerry Yang’s career.  Yang, you see, is putting Yahoo APT up there with radio, television, and the Internet.
APT is an advertising platform, and its main selling points are said to be speed, [...]

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17
Sep

About two months ago, SearchIgnite released a study saying that the Google-Yahoo search ad partnership could result in keyword prices being increased by 22 percent.  Hal Varian, Google’s chief economist, has now responded with a five-point version of “that ain’t so.”
Varian begins, “[T]he report fails to acknowledge that ad prices are not set by Yahoo! [...]

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12
Sep

Due to its stock’s performance and the falling-apart of its relationship with Microsoft, some rather harsh things have been said about Yahoo lately.  Site owners and SEO specialists might want to send the company a little “thank you” note, though, as a new update to its search index seems to have worked in their favor.
Granted, [...]

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5
Sep

Google’s an integral part of a lot of our daily lives, and Twitter’s got bunches of fans, too.  Nonetheless, a recent interaction between the two companies has left many sites’ owners with a bad taste in their mouths.
It used to be that Twitter users could put links in their profiles and see a little bit [...]

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