Posts tagged as:

Yahoo

Google May Earn $500,000,000 On Typosquatting – Yearly!

February 18, 2010
Thumbnail image for Google May Earn $500,000,000 On Typosquatting – Yearly!

A new report done by two Harvard scientists reveals that Google may earn up to 500 million dollars a year because of typosquatting.
Typosquatting is what they call it when somebody on purpose registers a domain that looks a lot like something else, like Googel.com (notice the misspelling). So if you go to googel.com because you [...]

8 comments Read the full article →

A Child Can Crack Your Password – Change It Now!

October 8, 2009
Thumbnail image for A Child Can Crack Your Password – Change It Now!

If you can count to 10, you can crack most passwords. That seems to be the case by looking at most of the thousands of leaked Windows Live ID passwords last week – they very often are just simple number combinations such as “123456″, birth dates or names. Passwords that can easily be found out [...]

5 comments Read the full article →

Bing Rings In At 10% Market Share – Google At 64%

September 16, 2009
Thumbnail image for Bing Rings In At 10% Market Share – Google At 64%

Microsoft has bet big on their new search engine, Bing, and it seems to be the right move, according to a study into the U.S. search market.
Bing had 1.1 billion searches in August, an increase of 22.1% compared to July. This gives Microsoft a market share of 10.7% of all searches.
There is still a [...]

9 comments Read the full article →

The Bing- Yahoo Partnership: Good News or Bad?

August 6, 2009

Microsoft and Yahoo finally signed an agreement to join forces. There was not a buyout or a merger, as some analysts thought there would be: that may come later. But, the current contract between the two corporate giants, if not blocked by the Justice Department, has big implications for search engine optimization companies and everyone with a website. Here are a few of them.

1 comment Read the full article →

Beginners Guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), part 1

June 30, 2009

If you have absolutely no clue, or very little, about Search Engine Optimizaiton, reading this post will get you started with some basic information.
As you have probably figured out already, SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. SERP means Search Engine Result Pages, ie. the page you see on e.g. Google with the results of what [...]

5 comments Read the full article →