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Fake Steve Jobs is rather more concise than me: The Borg-Yahoo merger won’t work. Here’s why. It’s like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they’ll run faster. So Microsoft has tendered a bid to buy Yahoo! for $44.6bn. I understand that Microsoft has to do something to build on its web strategy/presence. No-one uses Live Search, Live Spaces, or any of the rest. (OK. About one percent of people do). To build up any future trade for advertising, web services or development If you were a brand manager for an FMCG company – let’s say you look after Bostik, for the sake of argument – what would you be doing when it comes to your online strategy? Well, you’d probably try to work out how Google works. You want to come top of the search results for Philipp Lenssen has put together a list of common queries found through Google Suggest, the service that autocompletes your search queries based on popular searches. Google is pretty good, but I reckon people’s expectations might be a tad too high. Is love … … real? … a fancy or a feeling? … enough? … blind? … a choice? Google Answers has been closed while Yahoo! Answers goes from strength to strength. The key difference between the two is that Google’s service paid vetted ‘experts’ to produce results, while Yahoo allows anyone to pitch in. The whole thing leaves a lot of questions. I’m not sure whether the stats prove an Sorry about the headline. You may recall that one of the top entries for Martin Luther King Jr. on Google is a hate site. Hopefully, the united power of bloggers can do something about that. (idea found on http://edu.blogs.com) Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. |             | |||
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