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Microsoft’s past has shown the creation of monopolies in the software market and Google is now afraid, Bill Gates and company will try to do the same online. Senior Google vice-president David Drummond has reminded the world of Microsoft’s illegal attempts to monopolise trade and using it’s affluence now to infect other markets.

Valid argument or not, this is the most serious effort by Microsoft to compete in the space Read more

The internet arm of Microsoft corporation, MSN Search has made an offer to buy Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion dollars. Needless to say that this move has been discussed in the past, as the only way for Microsoft to really compete with Google in the online space.

Of course this also means that Mr Gates might be soon be owning parts of your life, such as your pictures (Flickr) as well as the majority of email globally, that is if you add Hotmail and the very popular Yahoo mail.

Overall all of this is moving towards a bitter monopoly of duopoly of the internet space, something that works against the very principles of the internet as a communication medium. For how long will Bill Gates able to survive in this space is debatable. Sure thing is, when money runs out eventually, people start thinking about adding value.

Sephora is a large beauty retailer in fragrance, cosmetics and facial skin care products. The company is not so well known in all parts of the world but has a very strong presence in France, Canada, Italy and Spain as well as a noticeable presence in the United States, Greece, Poland and China.

For a company this size imagine how surprised I was Read more

Travel networking site WAYN has come a long way since it’s beginning. Some of it’s unparalleled features such as “My Neighbourhood”, “Trips” and “Plan a trip” are the cutting edge elements in terms of site technology. Although there is actually the full potential to bring people together through the site, something is making it a little difficult to visualise the end result.

The problem is with Read more

The UK has been recently signalling a sharp drop in interest for social app Facebook. UK users have been using it less often as many people witnessed their interest dropping sharply once they have added all their friends and interacted with them for 4-6 months.
Not an official study but a feeling widespread, evident if you talk to people about Facebook.

The news that personal Facebook user data was to be used by advertisers did not come lightly to Europeans. Our US counterparts might be less concerned, Read more

It seems that BA has acquired some strange SEO habits. Such one is that they hide the text displayed within Flash files on the site.
One could argue that the text is contained in the visual file and therefore this is not classed as SPAM.

However, when the user lands on the page, they are not presented with the text, which only starts displaying in the Flash movie if the user decides to play it. Certainly a major dilemma here. Is this SPAM?

It is indeed a very time-consuming process to open up a master account in Google. What is more frustrating is the need to create additional Google accounts and then some more.
I ran out of emails doing that. Should it not be a little easier for agencies to create something like that, even if they are not running on massive budgets.

The (late) email reply I got from Google was firstly explaining a massive demand and delays in getting back to you. Surely if the product (and AdWords is a world class product, not so a service) is so popular and therefore increases revenue why not put a little more money into the interface and the staff around it?
You might want to keep things scalable in an internet business. Google is just that, no longer.

Customer services please!

News that search giant Google is going to introduce social media elements, such as voting search results for specific queries and approving or disapproving them in order to modify their own search results.

The big question is:
I am continuously logged in to my Google account. If I disapprove of one site in a specific query and that site refreshes it’s content and provides something useful a few months later…will I then lose it forever? Read more

One of the most common misconception of internet users is that organic (or natural) search engine rankings, (the rank of a website when making a search), are influenced by the number of visitors to that website. This is not true… Read more