Yahoo’s Quality Based Pricing

The new quality based pricing system being rolled out by Yahoo will allow advertisers to enjoy reduced click charges based on ad relevance and quality. Yahoo announced in a mass mail out yesterday the launch of Quality Based Pricing. Discounts will be automatically...

Panama Launches in Europe

The US and Canada have had access to the new Panama platform for some time and now advertisers in Europe are able to use the new version, just launched this week. There have been many comments on the new system on both the positive and negative side of things, but...

Microsoft Buy Yahoo? YES PLEASE!

Reputable sources say Microsoft has reopened negotiations with Yahoo to purchase the company or work with it in some way. Last year the same talks were going on but Yahoo’s Terry Semel said his “impartial advice to Microsoft is that you have no chance,” Mr...

MSN Launches Desktop Search

It is interesting that a few years after Google released Google Desktop, Microsoft has come forward to release their own version of Desktop search. As part of the MSN Search Toolbar Suite introduced earlier this year, the final version of MSN Desktop was released just...

Alexa Bullies Statsaholic and Copies Advances

Amazon’s bullying tactics make my blood pressure rise. Alexa (owned by Amazon) has chosen to file a lawsuit against Statsaholic.com for “stealing Alexa’s proprietary data by disregarding the rules for Alexa’s Web Services–through which Alexa...