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Microsoft and Yahoo – Act IX

January 13th, 2009

The Financial Times interviewed Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, and Ballmer dropped a bombshell – Microsoft is once more interested in Yahoo. At least, they want the search part of it. “We now have someone in place running our online business [Yahoo's former search chief, Qi Lu, has joined the Microsoft team], and Yahoo’s out looking [...]

 
 

Can BrowseRank Beat PageRank?

July 27th, 2008

Microsoft is breaking away from traditional ideas about linking to determine ranking, and trying something new. The idea behind BrowseRank is to measure a searcher’s natural progression from page to page, and take into account the amount of time they spend on each page to help determine page importance and site value. Will BrowseRank supplant [...]

 
 

Icahn + Yahoo = … Microsoft Again?

July 7th, 2008

Ouch. Just when you thought it was all over, here comes the fat lady. Microsoft, which has repeatedly told Yahoo that it is no longer interested in any sort of deal, might have been playing a deep hand. Reportedly, in a press release from the public relations department, the Redmond company has stated flatly that [...]