Microsoft and Yahoo are again in news for their DEAL

It’s not yet clear whether they brought the requested "boatloads of money," but several top Microsoft admiral are in Silicon Valley to try to agree a seek accord with Yahoo, according to an All Things Digital address backward on Thursday.

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Included in the Microsoft entourage, according to the report, are three of its top online executives: Yusuf Mehdi, Satya Nadella, and Qi Lu.

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said in May that she was accessible to a seek accord if she believed in the partner's technology and they provided said boatloads of money. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has adumbrated for added than a year now that he would like to bang some array of seek deal, although he no best wants to access all of Yahoo as the aggregation offered to do in February 2008.

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Microsoft ‘s “Bing”

Microsoft’s expected unveiling of a new search engine next week will be accompanied by a massive ad campaign that won’t mention Google and Yahoo by name but will ask if you’re happy with the results you get from competing services, AdAge reports.

The search engine will be named “Bing,” AdAge also says, which raises an obvious question: will an ad campaign said to be upwards of $100 million ever get anybody to say “Just ‘Bing’ it?”

Google has about 65% of the search market share, and Yahoo about 20%. Microsoft in the single digits. But so strategic is search, and so tied is it to ad-supported services that will only grow in importance with the increased use of cloud-computing — where your data is readily available to the people whose services you are using — and so deep are Microsoft’s pockets that even $100 million to move the needle a bit would seem to be worth the effort. Indeed, the Redmond, Washington software giant was willing to spend more than $30 billion to acquire Yahoo mainly to acquire its relatively better search prowess.

The ad campaign will embrace online, TV, print and radio. But the competition will go unmentioned, AdAge says.

People with knowledge of the planned push said the ads won’t go after Google, or Yahoo for that matter, by name. Instead, they’ll focus on planting the idea that today’s search engines don’t work as well as consumers previously thought by asking them whether search (aka Google) really solves their problems. That, Microsoft is hoping, will give consumers a reason to consider switching search engines, which, of course, is one of Bing’s biggest challenges.

Microsoft’s expected announcement, at this week’s prestigious All Things Digital conference, would follow by two weeks the hotly-anticipated launch of the Wolfram Alpha answer engine, which also touts itself as a niche-filler which provides factual answers to questions rather than providing links to source material which may contain the answer.

Besides trying to buy Yahoo and then trying to do just a search deal with them Microsoft has tried mightily to increase Live Search share organically, with little success. Efforts even included paying users directly with a cash back search service, which gave rebates on purchases made through Live.com.

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Market share of Microsoft Internet Explorer again fell down last month. According to the new Web usage data, Microsoft Internet Explorer is on a pace of decline that will push the once overwhelming dominant browser under 50% by this time in 2011.

IE lost 0.7 of a percentage point to end April with a 66.1% share of the browser market, another new low as pegged by metrics vendor Net Applications Inc., which started tracking browsers in 2005.

As in March, the April gains by IE8, which launched that month, where not enough to stem the slide of the browser's overall share. While IE8 boosted its share by 2.2 percentage points, IE7 lost 2 points and the creaking IE6 lost 0.8 percent point.

Although IE8's gains originally came almost entirely at the expense of IE7, Net Applications' April data shows that IE6 users are also starting to upgrade: The older browser's 0.8 percentage point loss last month was higher than the 0.6 point drop the month before.

Microsoft recently started offering IE8 to IE6 and IE7 users via Automatic Updates, a factor that may have played a part in the accelerated decline of the older browsers and the uptick in IE8.

As usual, rival browsers picked up IE's losses. Mozilla's Firefox, for example, increased its share by 0.4 of a percentage point to end the month with 22.5%, while Google's Chrome climbed 0.2 of a percentage point to 1.4%. Apple's Safari, however, missed out on the action, and slipped 0.02 of a percentage point to 8.2%.

Over the last 12 months, Firefox has gained an average 0.4 percentage points per month; if it keeps to that trajectory, the open-source browser will crack its next major milestone of 25% by the end of November.

IE, on the other hand, has been losing an average of 0.7 percentage point per month over the last 12 months. Unless Microsoft is able to stanch the bleeding, IE will lose its majority status and fall under 50% sometime in May 2011.

Net Applications measures browser usage by tracking the computers that visit the 40,000-some sites it monitors for its clients. The April browser data is available on its own site.

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Finally the news is out.  Microsoft windows 7 will be shipped in 2009 may be near holiday season. Microsoft senior VP bill Veghte, the honcho in charge of Microsoft's Windows business, all but confirmed that in a statement.

On the Windows IT Pro site, Paul Thurrott quotes Veghte as saying "A holiday release is accomplishable." In Micro-speak that's all but a confirmation that Windows 7 will be available on consumer PCs by then.

I am expecting it to be available very soon. As far as in my view of Windows 7 Release, this operating system is clearly ready for prime time. At this point, the interface is essentially complete. Performance is on target. There's not a lot left to do, other than some bug-killing, performance-tweaking, and ensuring that it runs well on the widest range of hardware possible. Microsoft window 7 is similar to Microsoft windows Vista. Windows Vista was not very successful, thought I m using it. I like the graphics in it.

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Few months back there were talks about yahoo and Microsoft were making a partnership deal. Once again Microsoft and Yahoo are seeking partnership and are in news.

The CEO’s of both the companies had a face to face meeting last week as a part of deal, the negotiations are going on from few weeks.

The report cites a variety of sources, saying that the talks between Ballmer and Bartz and other Executives on both sides are preliminary and wide ranging. The proposed tie-up involves looking at the various commercial opportunities that a search and advertising partnership would present.

According to the report, the firm poached Yahoo‘s head of Engineering for the Search and Advertising Technology Group, Qi Lu, to lead its own search and online advertising efforts.

Merging of Yahoo and Microsoft would definitely make sense as it has been quite a long time that Google is ruling and dominating the internet market.

Google currently has around 60 per cent of the market, with Yahoo some way off in second place with 20 per cent and Microsoft even further behind.

Bartz has repeatedly sent out signals that she would not be pressured into selling off parts of Yahoo‘s business.

Commentators had generally agreed that the firm shows more direction and purpose with Bartz in charge, although it still has problems, and could be amenable to a deal, given the ground it still has to make up to challenge Google.

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As Google promised that it will release a new application, so it just did.  On Wednesday 25 March 26, 2009, Google released a new mobile application which brings voice search feature to BlackBerry phones, as it did for iPhone and Android-based T- mobile G1.

You can download Google mobile application for free as it allows to you conduct searches with the command of your voice. It’s really very simply to do so just hold down the Talk button on your BlackBerry phone and then speak the term you what to search into the phone. Phone also supports English different accents. But you need to have BlackBerry OS 4.1 or higher and BlackBerry OS 4.2 or higher for Voice Search. These applications also includes support for Google’s My Locations feature and brings up the result based on your location as determined by your blackberry’s PS settings.

It would be fun to use this application and the best part is that you don’t have to set the location again and again for the search.

I wish if I could have any such feature for my Windows xp or may be in Windows 7 they can add this to computers. That would make us lazier. 

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I was just surfing the news on my newly installed Windows 7 (which is of course for trail period) when I got to read it about a new search Engine formed by Yahoo and Twitter.

Twitter is a good source to get to know the latest about anything. It’s like a news channel...Getting updated every second from all over the world. People who are little tech savvy know or we can say that they have little idea...How search engine works. I have read it somewhere that Google takes 25 minutes to update a new story...as it works according to its algorithms. Whereas in twitter…you just need to update it...and it’s live... This is instant.

According to the situation and demand of the news by people online, it needs to take on a fast turn. People want news instant... if they search for it online and if it takes time to display it later...Then what’s the use. Twitter can provide you the news update but not the whole story.

When it comes to whole story or news, users tend to search major news websites like Google news. [As a reference, most "hot news stories" take 25 minutes or longer to reach Google's news pages. -Ed]

Yahoo Boss engineer Vik Singh has developed TweetNews. TweetNews combines the search results from Yahoo and compare it with topics which are hitting Twitter. It gives a search engine which provides the result combined with the Twitter.

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Google is the Winner of search market in US in 2008

I have recently installed Windows 7 beta and was wondering about MIcrosoft .... "what a successor Microsoft has launched"... Just wondering about its products like operating systems, internet browsers, search engine. I recently read it somewhere that it has had a fall of near about 85 in searches.

It didn’t come to me as a surprise, Today Google is ruling internet searches with 69.5% in the 2008 year. Amazingly it has increased by 8 % from the last year according to a survey done by Hitwise.

Yahoo was at second place with had near about 19. 2 searches, which has dropped from the search volume of 11 % (if we compare it to the last month), and the biggest shock came from Microsoft which dropped by 32%. This year searches made by Microsoft search engine were just 5.9%.

But if we look at data monthly then we can see that Microsoft searches has increased from last four to five months which gives hope to increase its searches in future.

Let’s see...Which search engine gets to the top this year.

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Google has updated page rank on New Year’s Eve. Some are happy about it and so are not.  Matt cuts has updated it on his blog, "In case you didn’t see where I confirmed it on Twitter, Google recently did a toolbar PageRank update. It’s pretty much done now. If you want more info, I’ve answered questions about PageRank and the Google Toolbar in the past." and confirmed it on twitter as well.

It is the fact that the PageRank which is shown on the Google Toolbar is not enough to judge as to how Google ranks your site. A lot of other factors are involved.

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Google Chrome has always been appreciated for its lightweight look and for its lightning speed of JavaScript engine.  With the market share of near about 1% , Google chrome is lacking behind in the race because it lacks add-ons , extensions and RSS feed. And the other important thing is Google has removed the beta tag from Google chrome may be it’s a move that was probably made in preparation for Google's upcoming bundling deals with PC manufacturers.

As most of us know that Google can track our data… there are few users which are still uncomfortable with that. But don’t worry Google have an answer for that and we have solution to your browser problems as well. And luckily Google has provided 3 options for that.

1. Chrome Privacy Guard

Google has provided chrome with an option called Chrome Privacy Guard. With this tool you can automatically delete the unique Client ID that Google assigns to your Chrome installation. This tool automatically deletes unique ID before each run of Chrome. To use Chrome Privacy Guard, you launch an executable file ChromePrivacyGuard.exe instead of launching the browser itself. The tool cans the "Local State" file inside the Chrome directory and removes all information regarding the Client ID. It then automatically starts Chrome.

2. UnChrome

The way Privacy guard removes the unique ID from the browser. In the same manner UnChrome removes the unique ID form the browser. The only difference is that this option of UnChrome removes the unique ID forever by running this tool just once. After you download and run the tool. You will see a pop up advertisement for the developer's other applications, but again, it's only a one-time thing. Afterwards, your browser will forever have the unique ID removed.

3. Iron

Iron is a fork of Chrome's Chromium core, the open source project behind Google Chrome. Developed by a German software company, Iron goes even further than the above tools to protect your privacy. Where the other tools simply remove the unique ID from Google's version of the Chrome browser, Iron is actually its own, separate browser. In addition to removing the unique ID, Iron also makes sure that no user-specific info is sent to Google, including crash reports. When you enter in a URL incorrectly, Iron does not present any alternative error messages like Chrome does.

Seems Google has started working on its shortcoming… which is really great. Chrome has the features of a good Browser but lack of add-ons and extensions are its obstacles … which hopefully Google is going to face and solve them.

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Dr. Qi - Lu, the newly named president of Microsoft's Online Services Group, did something that many Microsoft executives have typically avoided even mentioning. He mentioned Google by name. He was asked a question on his website where he answered-

"I think Google is a very, very powerful company, they are definitely ahead in the search space. There are a lot of challenges ahead. We've got our work cut out for us."

Lu was former executive vice president of engineering for the Search and Advertising Technology Group at Yahoo is the latest in a series of several high-profile Yahoo search executives who've left the struggling search giant for Microsoft.

When Lu joins Microsoft on Jan. 5, he'll join a third-place search market player that has had trouble gaining share from its more entrenched rivals. In October, Google had 63.1 percent of the U.S. search market, followed by Yahoo with 20.5 percent and Microsoft with 8.5 percent, according to comScore.

But despite Microsoft's trailing position in search, Lu seems optimistic about the software giant's future search prospects. Not only is Microsoft's search product quality improving at "a very fast rate," Microsoft is also focused on building a powerful advertising platform, Lu said in the Q&A.

"The advertising we see today will be very different in the future because of new platforms for it. Ads will be truly relevant and useful, and the experience will be compelling," Lu said in the Q&A.

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Microsoft’s Chief Executive, Steve Ballmer, cleared the air on Friday that the company might still be interested in buying Yahoo, setting off a 13 percent decline in Yahoo’s share price. Yahoo shares dropped $2.20 to a paltry $9.35 in afternoon trading. The news also sent Microsoft shares down 57 cents to $19.02 and is just above a ten year low of $18.74 which it reached last week. 

Yahoo's stock, which jumped on the company co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang's departure from his position at the helm, opened the door to the renewed speculation that a Micro-hoo deal might be back on the cards, was brought crashing back down to earth in mid-day trading on Wednesday.

Some analysts said that Ballmer is still interested, but that the public disinterest is a duplicitous tactic to purposefully drive down Yahoo's value. Microsoft had offered $47.5 billion or $33 a share back in May, which must seem like light years away for throngs of irate Yahoo shareholders.

“We moved on,” Mr. Ballmer told a business luncheon in Sydney on Friday, when asked for the company’s plans after a possible Web search advertising partnership between Yahoo and Google fell through this week.

Mr. Ballmer said Microsoft made several attempts to reach a deal with Yahoo but that they failed. “We are not interested in going back and relooking at an acquisition. I don’t know why they would be either, frankly,” Mr. Ballmer said. He added that he thought there were still opportunities for some kind of partnership around search engines. No news on the replacement for Mr Yang, which is expected to take anywhere up to 12 weeks.

With an additional 1,500 layoffs announced by Yahoo scheduled for January, a failure to close a shared advertising revenue deal with rival Google, an inability to come to terms with Microsoft, a drop in profits and the stock in the proverbial toilet, the future is looking less than peachy for the struggling web giant.

Just as with the new appointment to the White House commencing in January will face unprecedented economic hardship, certainly in more than a generation, the victor taking on the leadership duties at Yahoo will no doubt feel a similar strain.

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Yahoo should call Microsoft’s bluff. That may sound like a churlish suggestion given the software behemoth’s apparent disdain for its onetime Internet sweetheart. But everyone continues to lose ground to Google in search. Yahoo says it could put an end to that if it just had scale. It should put its money where its mouth is and offer to buy Microsoft’s MSN unit with a public bear hug.

Yahoo has little to lose. Its stock is trading at a third of Microsoft’s February bid of $31 a share. Its proposed partnership with Google was dropped by the search company a few weeks ago, and Microsoft’s chief, Steve Ballmer, continues to publicly spurn reconciliation attempts. This disappointment led to Jerry Yang’s recent resignation and the Yahoo board’s search for a new leader.

Meanwhile, Google keeps gobbling up market share in search. The latest figures show it has a dominant 63 percent share of the United States market, an 8 percent increase over last year, according to comScore. Yahoo has been one of the biggest losers. Its share is now just 20 percent.

Yahoo says it can reverse this with greater scale. That’s because the more searches a particular engine attracts, the more effective its search algorithm becomes, it says. In turn, the more accurate search results bring even more activity, creating a virtuous cycle.

If Yahoo believes its own story, it should try to incorporate Microsoft’s MSN unit. The online and search division is equally challenged by Google and has just 8.5 percent of the market, giving it even less scale than Yahoo. And many Microsoft shareholders would love to see the company jettison a business that has been a management distraction and a money-loser.

What’s it worth? One guide is Google’s market capitalization, which assigns about $1.4 billion of value for each percentage point of market share. Discount that by a third to reflect Google’s dominance, and MSN might be worth $8 billion. With Yahoo valued at near twice that, it could offer to take MSN off Microsoft shareholders’ hands for stock, giving Microsoft a third of the combination and exposure to any value created.

There’s another benefit to Yahoo of going on the offensive. By forcing Microsoft to defend its search position, Yahoo might get its rival to admit that its bigger worry is the threat of so-called cloud computing, where rivals like Google offer Web-based versions of Microsoft’s core software business, free.

Since dropping his offer for Yahoo, Mr. Ballmer has been able to depress Yahoo’s stock just by opening his mouth. A public offer for MSN could give Yahoo similar power. And there’s always the chance that Microsoft will try to squelch its rival with a bid.

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