It’s actually fairly major acquisition news although the fact that it doesn’t involve Google probably puts it quite low down on the list of reports. Apparently, though, AOL is looking to launch a decidedly complex bid attempt to gain control over Yahoo. They’re also looking to involve at least two major private equity firms and [...]
Yahoo was clearly shown losing market share in the recent Comscore results, with an undisputable 200 million fewer searches in September than in August but Yahoo tried to set the record straight according to their own metrics by saying that in actual fact Google only gained market share because Comscore measures search results as Google [...]
The figures for US Internet search data in September have been released and its good news for Google, another potential nail in the coffin (slight overreaction maybe) for Yahoo, and disappointing but steady news for Bing, Ask, and AOL. All the figures are US only but give a reasonable indication of how the big search [...]
Yahoo has been making a few comments recently about how it intends to improve things, become cool again, and generally turn things around – news that became necessary when Bing overtook it in terms of search market share to become the second most popular site. It listed email and search, with huge injections of social [...]
Yahoo has been making a lot of noise recently about revamping itself and bringing its services more closely in line with Google (they didn’t quite say that but it is essentially what they meant). They have said that they no longer want to be considered a media company but should be thought of as a [...]