Category: Industry

Sep 06 2009

Website Optimization Got Me My Vacation Last Year

It's easy to think of Website Optimization as something stale a boring – industry jargon. A lot of people feel that way.

I have a friend who lived with a basement full of antique glass and po…

Jul 29 2009

Selling Domain Names

Can you make a living just selling domain names? BusinessWeek took a look at the business of buying and selling domain names recently.During the early years of the Internet, there was furious competit…

Jul 17 2009

Is Yahoo Really Top Dog?

Search Engine Land pointed out something to me recently that I don't think much about…

Google dominates the search engine market. Microsoft dominates the software market. And that's it, rig…

Jun 26 2008

Trends That Could Challenge Google

ReadWriteweb has a post on the new trends that have been shaping up at the search front and those that could possibly challenge Google's dominance in the future.

A summary of the list

1. Outsour…

Jun 25 2008

LimitNone Sues Google For $1 Billion

LimitNone, a small software company has sued Google for copying its product – for Microsoft Office calendar items and email to Gmail.

An excerpt from Wired

The dispute centers around a LimitNone-dev…

Jun 15 2008

A network for Small Businesses

Social Networks are the craze and now there is one for Small Businesses. I am a believer in the concept that like the industrial age, when we believed that automation and fuel consumption had no ends,…

May 13 2008

MySpace Breaks Wall Around User Data

MySpace in an unprecedented move favoring its users enabled them to share their profile data, photos and other information with third party sites. The roll-out was announced for sites such as Yahoo, T…

May 13 2008

After Yahoo Deal Collapse, Microsoft Mulling Facebook?

After the Yahoo deal debacle, Microsoft sits pretty with a load of cash and very many online properties as possible suitors.

An excerpt from EarthTimes

Top executives of Time Warner in New York sens…

May 07 2008

Mobile WiMax Gets A Major Push

The partnership between Clearwire and Sprint to deploy Mobile WiMax had been facing certain financial hurdles till late. Now with $3.2 of funding from firms including Google, Intel, Comcast and Time W…

Apr 17 2008

Google Grabs 67.25% Of U.S. Search Market In March 2008

Latest release of search statistics from HitWise have Google topping the U.S search market with a whopping 67.25% as against 20.29% for Yahoo and 5.25% for Microsoft.

An excerpt from the hitwise rep…