Steve Ballmer still wants a deal with Yahoo
Yahoo has a brand new CEO who has shown little interest in selling off company units.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that he still wants to get into a deal with Yahoo over its search engine division.
He said that both Microsoft and Yahoo should join hands [...]
Google wants to be out of AOL shareholding
Search engine giant Google is now planning to move out of their shareholding in AOL.
The company had invested in AOL three years ago.
Time Warner said that they have received a request from Google that they want to exercise its “demand registration statement” on the AOL [...]
Microsoft Live Search News Alerts launched
Microsoft has launched a news alerts service for their Live Search News service.
This is similar to how Google News Alerts work.
Users would require to have a Live ID to get access to these news alerts.
They can subscribe to news alerts from any page on the Live Search [...]
Google in USA: 63.5 percent market share
ComScore has released their latest statistic report which shows that Google has made even more advances in terms of market share in the US search engine market.
The company has now improved their share by 0.4 percentage points to 63.5 percent in November.
Yahoo lost 0.1 percent to 20.4 percent stake.
Microsoft [...]
Dell rumored to be in deal with Microsoft for Live Search
Market sources are claiming that Microsoft has snatched Dell away from Google.
Dell is now going to be loading Microsoft Live Search toolbar preinstalled on new computers.
They were in a deal with Google till now which was signed in 2006.
Microsoft and Dell are yet [...]
Microsoft Live Search cashback is now instant!
Microsoft continues to enhance its Live Search cashback offer with new features.
The service is now offering instant cashbacks to the customers.
The user just has to use the Live Product search service to hunt for products they want to purchase.
The products which are eligible for the offer [...]
Microsoft: Live Cashback program a success
Microsoft might not be closing in on Google in terms of search engine market share but the company claims that their Live Cashback program has been a success.
Microsoft said that the Cashback scheme is attracting new web users to their search services which is the aim of the program.
However, market [...]
Microsoft Live Search Cashback offering huge discounts
Microsoft is getting more aggressive with its Live Search Cashback offer.
The company is now offering discounts as high as 25% on items purchased from eBay
Users are required to search for products on the company’s Live Product search service to get these discounts.
eBay has been a Microsoft partner on [...]
Facebook integrates Microsoft Live Search
Microsoft is one of the investors in Facebook social networking service. They are also providing advertising solutions on the network.
Facebook has now integrated Microsoft Live Search technology within the network which enables the user to conduct searches from within the service.
Facebook notified in a blog post: “By integrating web search into [...]
Ask.com working on enhancing search engine
Ask.com has said that they are working hard on enhancing their search services to make it faster and more relevant.
The company aims to take away some market share from the leaders in this segment Google.
Company Chief Executive Officer Jim Safka said in a statement that they expect to provide [...]
