Looks like the two-headed monster won't be created after all. The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo will be rejecting Microsoft's offer of a mega-merger on Monday. Yahoo believes that any offer less than $40/share is undervaluing its worth. Well, Microsoft, the good thing is that that's $44.6 billion ...
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Microsoft announced today that it is offering to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion cash + stock. This is an incredibly big move and an interesting one because Yahoo essentially replicates a lot of Microsoft's Live platform. It's definitely going to be a change in the search and online advertising ...
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Google has been shaking things up these past few weeks, tweaking the interfaces and functionality of almost all their current services. The most recent has been the five experimental features they've been trying out, aimed at improving your "search experience". The features are: Alternate view for search results, Keyword suggestions, ...
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If you're an avid user of Microsoft Outlook, then you've been frustrated by the built-in search functionality. Outlook 2007 definitely improved upon previous iterations of the software, thanks to built-in indexing and optimization. Regardless, searching through a large amount of e-mail can still take as long as thirty seconds. A ...
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Microsoft has a long way to go in the fight against Google's search dominance. However, today they made an interesting move in a different search market - big money America. A $1.2 billion deal was made to purchase FAST, a Norwegian enterprise search vendor. The move will shore up its ...
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