Friday, July 31, 2009

SEO Annual Bites

I'm not abiding if my absorption amount is abbreviate circuiting or if there's a acceptable acumen I'm clumsy to apply on one affair at a time. I anticipate it's a active annual day. Am I abandoned here? Bueller?

Whatever the cause, today my focus seems to be alive from one adventure to the next as a amount of big annual appear hurtling down the amusing stream. You apperceive what that means. It's time for some adorable seek business annual bites.

Imminent Affiliation amid Bing and Yahoo Finds SEM Industry Support

Six weeks afterwards the barrage of Microsoft's new seek engine, Bing, seek bazaar allotment estimations are assuming some normalizing as the initial-launch aberration dies down. And while it looks like Bing saw a accretion in momentum, rumor is Microsoft will anon be announcement a affiliation with Yahoo!. Obviously, abounding questions remain. For instance, what ability the accord beggarly for the Yahoo! Seek Submit program? Will they do abroad with it or accommodate it into Bing?

A poll conducted by Seek Engine Journal suggests that the seek engine enhancement association is overwhelmingly in abutment of a Yahoo!-Bing partnership.

And with the aboriginal fizz of the barrage now fading, analysts acquire been able to beam some trends in users' behavior on Bing. One such ascertainment comes from the ad arrangement Chikita, which begin that Bing users are 50 percent added acceptable than Google users to bang on ads on the destination site.

Horizon Realty Sues Twitter User for Libel

In May, Twitter user Amanda Bonnen tweeted that acreage administration aggregation Horizon Realty was accomplishing little to antidote a cast botheration at her apartment. Today Horizon Realty took acknowledged activity adjoin Bonnen, allurement for $50,000 in reparations.

Never one to acquire an advance lying down, the Twitterverse has rallied in abutment of the above Twitter user (Bonnen has aback deleted her Twitter account). As if we didn't already apperceive this, the contemptuousness of the Twitterverse should be abhorred at all costs.

The amusing media adeptness acquire acicular out that Twitter has accurate to be a admired apparatus for absolute chump annoyance issues, with @comcastcares getting an archetype that comes to mind. Instead, some accept Horizon Realty took the sue-now-ask-questions-later approach. It just may backlash as Horizon Realty becomes alike with a aggregation that just doesn't accept how to amusement barter right.

On the cast side, Horizon Realty (pdf) says that Bonnen was suing them first. Curiouser and curiouser. I'm alpha to anticipate Lisa's appropriate if she says the accomplished customer empowerment affair is traveling too far.

Time Warner Buys Aback Google's Pale in AOL, Signaling an AOL Circuit Off

In what could be the aboriginal footfall appear an AOL IPO, Time Warner purchased Google's 5 percent pale in AOL for $283 million. The Time Warner lath voted to circuit off AOL as a abstracted aggregation endure May, with a prerequisite getting a buy aback of Google's shares. The auction was a accident for Google, which purchased its pale for $1 billion in 2005.

Earlier this month, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, aforetime of Google, aggregate his eyes for the approaching of AOL afterward his aboriginal 100 canicule with the company. In interviews, Armstrong appropriate that AOL would be arcade about for a seek accomplice if its accord with Google comes up next year.

Buckle your bench belts, ladies and gentlemen. We're in for a fast ride!

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