Yahoo may have said
no to being acquired by Microsoft, but Microsoft isn’t having it. The
company has put out a
statement
saying the rejection was "unfortunately" and pledging to "pursue all necessary
steps" to get what it called its "full and fair" proposal to be accepted.
The wording suggests that Microsoft will not up its offer, as some have
expected. It […]

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:

Microhoo: Divining The Probabilities Yahoo’s board has officially rejected Microsoft’s bid for the company, but that’s likely just a gambit to either pressure Microsoft to sweeten its bid, or stall for time while Yahoo explores […]

Yahoo’s board has officially rejected Microsoft’s bid for the company, but that’s likely just a gambit to either pressure Microsoft to sweeten its bid, or stall for time while Yahoo explores other alternatives. So what’s the likelihood of Microsoft actually succeeding in its takeover attempt?
There are many possible scenarios. Will Microsoft have to increase […]

Microsoft has acquired Danger, Inc., maker of the T-mobile “Sidekick” device and the Danger operating system and platform. Danger has been hailed as highly innovative and its platform and OS pre-dates the iPhone (the company was founded in 2000). There’s a bit of an irony here in that Danger was co-founded by Andy Rubin who […]

The Online Marketing Blog recently ran a poll asking readers which SEO tactic they plan on using most in 2008 and the winner with 25% of the vote was Blogging. This doesn’t surprise me because blogging is an excellent way to manage PR, offer technical support as well as interact with users. In 2008 Blogging […]

Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web. Read Original Post Here

This week the mega mobile conference 3GSM (now formally called the GSMA Mobile World Congress) is taking place in Barcelona, Spain. And true to the pre-conference hype and speculation, several mobile chip makers are showing off Android prototype phones. (Gizmodo has a “hands-on” video with a prototype from the conference.) It’s important to note that […]

Google’s Matt Cutts has lent his personal blog to the Google Images search
team so they could

debunk a rumor that Google censored an image of a Egyptian football player
Mohammad Aboutrika stripping off his team jersey during the African Cup Of
Nations to show a "Sympathize With Gaza" T-shirt underneath. No censoring, says
Google — it was just a […]

Google Operating System has a collection of Googler posts on their recent trip to Disneyland. This year, instead of going skiing as they have traditionally done for their annual company trips, Google went to Disneyland.
Googlers took over Disneyland between February 4 and 6th. In fact, Valleywag reported that Googlers also took over the […]

SEO is making it big time, hitting Oprah! Actually, it’s an SEO who will be on Oprah and not talking about his business but his personal life. Rand Fishkin is slated to share how he popped the question for his fiancee Geraldine, last year.
Kim Krause posted the news of Rand being on Oprah at Cre8asite […]